Word: consensus
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...touch with those of Middle America that he dare not show them on paper. To Kraft, the legitimacy of reporting has become a function of the opinions of Middle America. Showing your feelings is all right, he seems to say, so long as those feelings are consensus feelings...
...grievances. The government of a university depends, even more than that of a political community, upon the consent of all the governed to accept decisions reached by its constitutional processes. The consent of the dissenters depends partly upon their knowing that their views effectively entered into the process of consensus, even though they did not prevail. They must also be convinced that the opportunities for change are open and the goals and stance of the enterprise are sufficiently right for it to deserve their loytlty despite specific points of disagreement. Administrative intractability and resistance to change contribute to the breakdown...
...example, a problem we feel certain to arise is that of the domination of discussion by one point of view. Already, we have begun to discuss how to break this "consensus" by pointing to the unspoken and unconscious assumptions of such a situation. When one point of view dominates, those who do not hold it become disinterested and silent. If the course is to be meaningful, then all points of view must be expressed. Therefore, when such a situation arises, the section man must take positive action to break...
Mills' Robert J. Wert: The decision-making process has changed over the past ten years. A president now has to lead rather than dictate. He has to work for a consensus. You have to be something of a politician, and no academic can take too much of that. There also has been a shift in student tactics, which are now designed to evoke a heavyhanded response from the university. Activists demand something they know in advance that the uni versity cannot yield, then scream bloody murder when it is not delivered. More and more, it is the confrontation...
With few exceptions, multi-party forms of democracy left behind by the departing colonial powers have vanished from Africa. Reason: the tribal tradition of decision by consensus leaves no room for a "loyal opposition." To the African mind, a political group is either for the government or against it, and if the latter, it has no business existing. More than half of the 30 independent Black African nations are still ruled by the same men who took over in the first days of freedom. While this reflects a stability of sorts, only one African leader has been voted...