consensualism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From consensual + -ism.
Noun
[edit]consensualism (uncountable)
- A system where decisions are made based on the consensus of those involved.
- 2000, Markus M. L. Crepaz, Thomas Albert Koelble, David Wilsford, Democracy and Institutions: The Life Work of Arend Lijphart, page 79:
- These locations reflect the dilemma and uneasy compromise between desirable, yet mutually exclusive features. One axis ranges from majoritarianism to consensualism. The other goes from unitarism to federalism.
- 2002, James G. McGann, Robert Kent Weaver, Think Tanks and Civil Societies: Catalysts for Ideas and Action:
- Faced with a choice between managerial despotism and liberal anarchy CLS founders voted for Utopian consensualism.