Nettsider med emneord «Consensus»

Eva Krick presents a comprehensive assessment of input- and output-related dimensions of democratic legitimacy in her recent article. The study challenges the widespread assumption that the decision rule of ‘consensus’, whereby decisions are made by ‘tacit consent’, grants veto power to each participant.

In this article, featured in the book Social Democracy in the 21st Century, Cathrine Holst and co-author study ad hoc policy advisory committees that propose public policies on the basis of consensus. They compare the Norwegian system with those of Germany and the European Union. They find significant similarities between the three committee governance systems. They show that these kinds of ad hoc advisory comittees tend to generate a kind of coordinated negotiated expertise. To shed light on the resemblances across the systems they develop a notion of consensus-orientated political and epistemological systems. 

This paper discusses decision-making by 'tacit consent' and its democratic qualities, arguing that this decision mode suffers from power asymmetries and opacity.

ARENA Working Paper 3/2015 (pdf)

Eva Krick