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consensus decision-making

Group decision-making aiming for universal agreement

Entityprinciple method group decision-makingQ188577

Also known as consensus building · consensus · consensus (social sciences)

Instance of: principle
, method
, group decision-making
Subclass of: decision making

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Consensus decision-making is a group decision-making process in which participants work together to develop proposals for actions that achieve a broad acceptance. Consensus is reached when everyone in the group assents to a decision even if some do not fully agree to or support all aspects of it. Consensus decision-making in a democracy is consensus democracy.

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18 statements · 28% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Different from: consensus
Influenced by: Quaker decision-making
Uses: consensus

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28%

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