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slug: "consensus-democracy"
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title: "Consensus Democracy"
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<h1 class="p-name">Consensus Democracy</h1>
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<p>182 words, ~1 minute read. <span v-html="data[`site/${pageData.page.value.relativePath}`]" /></p>
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<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>
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A form of democracy similar to [Direct Democracy](/garden/direct-democracy/index.md) but with higher requirements for passing policies, typically requiring unanimity or near-unanimity. This helps reduce (although doesn't eliminate) the possibility of a majority group oppressing a minority group.
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Consensus democracy encourages and requires innovative solutions to problems (similar to how [Police Abolition](/garden/police-abolition/index.md)) and pragmatic compromises. However, this can make them susceptible to "design by committee" and can make policies impossibly difficult to pass for large groups of people.
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Since consensus democracy doesn'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 [Direct Democracy](/garden/direct-democracy/index.md) to decide whether to approve it or not, still requiring a super-majority.
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For policies that still are unable to pass federally, local governments could form coalitions that organize larger-scale initiatives between several districts. For example, this could empower efforts like transit systems between districts.
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Transitioning to a direct democracy will face difficulties in finding an initial set of rules that people can agree with. |