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.</span></p><hr><details><summary>Referenced by:</summary><a href="/garden/anarchism/index.md">Anarchism</a><a href="/garden/gerrymandering/index.md">Gerrymandering</a><a href="/garden/my-political-beliefs/index.md">My Political Beliefs</a></details><p>A form of democracy similar to <a href="/garden/direct-democracy/">Direct Democracy</a> but with higher requirements for passing policies, typically requiring unanimity or near-unanimity. This helps reduce (although doesn&#39;t eliminate) the possibility of a majority group oppressing a minority group.</p><p>Consensus democracy encourages and requires innovative solutions to problems (similar to <a href="/garden/police-abolition/">Police Abolition</a>) and pragmatic compromises. However, this can make them susceptible to &quot;design by committee&quot; and can make policies impossibly difficult to pass for large groups of people.</p><p>Since consensus democracy doesn&#39;t scale well, larger governments could be structured as a federation of smaller governments. The smaller governments still use consensus democracy, but the federation only adopts policies that a super-majority of the smaller governments have agreed upon. Alternatively, the federation could specifically ask the local governments for policy proposals, then use <a href="/garden/direct-democracy/">Direct Democracy</a> to decide whether to approve it or not, still requiring a super-majority.</p><p>For policies that still are unable to pass federally, local governments could form coalitions that organize larger-scale initiatives between several districts where there is consensus support. For example, this could empower efforts like transit systems between districts. These coalitions could possibly end up making the federal level obsolete, and ensure people are still only subject to laws and policies that made it through consensus.</p><p>Transitioning to a direct democracy will face difficulties in finding an initial set of rules that people can agree with.</p></div></div></main><!----><!--[--><!--]--></div></div></div><!--[--><!--]--></div></div><!----><!--[--><footer class="vp-doc" data-v-4f9a2448><div data-v-4f9a2448>CC 2024 <a class="h-card" rel="me" href="/about" data-v-4f9a2448><img src="/me.jpg" alt="" data-v-4f9a2448>The Paper Pilot</a>. <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" data-v-4f9a2448>CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a>.</div><div data-v-4f9a2448>Any and all opinions listed here are my own and not representative of my employers; future, past and present.</div><div data-v-4f9a2448><a href="https://resume.incremental.social/thepaperpilot/thepaperpilot" data-v-4f9a2448>Resume</a> (not actively seeking new opportunities).</div><div data-v-4f9a2448>Site built from <a href="https://code.incremental.social/thepaperpilot/pages/commit/50fc43997fde6ba5648dcf9bb2ad34df5e125be5" data-v-4f9a2448>this commit</a> on <time data-v-4f9a2448>Thursday, November 28, 2024 at 22:20:23</time>. <a href="https://www.thepaperpilot.org/licenses.txt" data-v-4f9a2448>Legal disclaimers</a>.</div></footer><!--]--></div></div>
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