Talk:Consensus democracy

message: Not sure if anyone still has this article on his/her watchlist, but are there any examples of consensus democracy? All of the examples mentioned in the text turn out to be just a consensus between a very limited number of voters or organizations. The poldermodel for example is a "consensus" between 3 huge organizations and basically the same as negotiation processes in "non-consensus" systems. How does that ensure that minority positions aren't just ignored ?
As of now, none of the examples mentioned is even close to a consensus of all people involved. Malc82 22:08, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Examples?

message: This article is scheduled for massive OR deletions unless supported. Citations #1 and #3 are challenged as unreliable sources. Raggz 08:23, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure why you removed this citation (diff).  "Unreliable" makes no sense - if you look at the source, it is a publication called "Direct Democracy in Switzerland", and "Direct Democracy in Switzerland was published by Presence Switzerland (PRS), an official body of the Swiss Confederation. PRS promotes the dissemination of information about Switzerland worldwide...".  Public education efforts by an official government agency in Switzerland would seem to be prima facie reliable sources.  If you feel otherwise, or don't think the reference is appropriate to the text citing it, you'll have to make the case. - David Oberst 08:55, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: All points well taken, thank you for the correction. Raggz 09:28, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Original Research

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message: These appear to be identical in scope and should be merged together, if not both merged into consensus decision-making. czar 07:02, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain (talk) 09:49, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Czar; @Klbrain: Thoughts on merging this into consensus decision-making? Think the scope still overlaps and I'm unclear as to how "consensus democracy" is distinct enough to warrant its own article. -- Grnrchst (talk) 15:11, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think a merger into Democracy#Consensus democracy would work, as it's more a neologism for a subset type of democracy than a facet of consensus decision-making itself. It already has a short section there and we apparently don't have enough for a full article here. czar 15:46, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I would support that. This article could quite easily be reduced into that section. -- Grnrchst (talk) 16:26, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

text: @Czar: Just looked into the cited sources for this article and only one of them actually discusses "consensus democracy" (Lijphart 1999). The rest either didn't mention consensus at all, mentioned consensus decision-making without describing it in terms of democracy, or are about "consensus government". -- Grnrchst (talk) 19:46, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

text: @Czar: I went ahead and merged it. Let me know if you have any objections. --Grnrchst (talk) 12:43, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[Consensus government]] into [[Consensus democracy]]