consensualism

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noun

A system where decisions are made based on the consensus of those involved.

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Meanings

nounconsensualism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA system where decisions are made based on the consensus of those involved.

    Faced with a choice between managerial despotism and liberal anarchy CLS founders voted for Utopian consensualism.

    2002, James G. McGann, Robert Kent Weaver, Think Tanks and Civil Societies: Catalysts for Ideas and Action
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    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.

    2000, Markus M. L. Crepaz, Thomas Albert Koelble, David Wilsford, Democracy and Institutions: The Life Work of Arend Lijphart, page 79

Origin

From consensual + -ism.

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