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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"consensus decision-making"”.
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Consensus decision-making at Guilford College: a case study analysis
The Quaker tradition of consensus decision-making provides a provocative approach to internal governance in Quaker related colleges and universities. Guilford College, a small, private, liberal arts college with Quaker roots in Greensboro, North Carolina, employs the consensus model in college …
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The clean air strategy for Alberta : a case study in consensus decision making for sustainable development
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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Quest(ion)s of Anarchist Power: Rethinking Power-To, Power-Over, and Power-With in the Radical Democratic Praxis of Consensus Decision-Making
… power in social movement organizations that use consensus decision-making, a form of deliberation that espouses radically democratic and anarchist political ideals. Over the past several decades consensus decision-making has grown popular in anarchist-inspired North American social movements. …
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Collaborative Policing: A Case Study of the Red Deer Domestic Violence Collaborative Court Program
… The benefits include: information sharing, consensus decision-making, providing clients with a continuum of service, and connecting clients with the collaborative. The challenges consist of: large time-commitment, sustainability of consistent funding, and unintended impacts of independent …
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InterTwinkles : online tools for non-hierarchical, consensus-oriented decision making
Non-hierarchical, participatory, consensus-based decision making has seen an explosion in popularity in recent years. The traditional techniques of formal consensus, however, are limited to face-to-face meetings, which can limit organizations' capacity due to their time and cost. InterTwinkles is a …
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Social Capital in Cohousing: Understanding How One Community Builds Ties
… communities. These include clearly defining consensus and articulating decision-making processes; incorporating homebuyers' input early in the project development phase; rethinking common area designs; and methods to foster activities that encourage resident interaction. Future research could …
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A tale of two committees : evaluating collaborative management planning in Canada's Pacific groundfish fisheries
… increasingly employ collaborative forms of decision-making in fisheries management to improve decision quality and legitimacy. However, crafting fair and effective collaborative processes which will achieve these benefits is often difficult. In an effort to identify keys and obstacles to …
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New Role Orientations for U.S. EPA Officials in the Next Generation System of Environmental Protection
… historically, such as notice and comment rulemaking, single stakeholder consultations, and positional leadership, are no longer adequate to address existing environmental challenges and new emerging environmental problems. The Common Sense Initiative (CSI) was launched by EPA in mid-1994 as a …
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The Role of the Principal when Parents are Increasingly Involved in Decision-Making
… relation to the increasing parent involvement in decision making and the educational restructuring in Alberta, Canada. The purpose of this study is to describe and examine a selected principal in her role in a school, during the 1994-1995 year, where parents from the school council and staff from …
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Aspiring for unity and equality : dynamics of conflict and change in the 'by women for women' feminist service groups, Aotearoa/New Zealand (1970-1999)
… organised as women-only collectives, utilised consensus decision-making, embodied ideals of non-hierarchy, and had aspirations of sisterhood between women. The second phase (from the late 1980s) was marked by modification of the radical feminist collective, as groups experienced internal and …
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An exploratory study of expressing disagreement in ELF academic group discussion
… is important for two reasons: (1) to achieve consensus on group tasks, and (2) to negotiate meaning around academic topics. There is, however, little known about how disagreement is realised in ELF academic group discussion tasks. The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the disagreement …
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The Legitimacy of Selected Watershed Organizations in the Midwestern United States
… common feature of watershed collaborations is consensus decision-making, but these consensus groups often exhibited exclusion of "difficult" stakeholders, as well as self-exclusion of people who lacked patience with the time-consuming nature of the process. Survey results also indicated that …
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Measurement of SME risk and its relationship with SME operating characteristics: An empirical study in Malaysia
… through leadership tussles, nepotism and poor consensus decision making. SMEs have contributed significantly to the Malaysian GDP and play a very important role in the economic development of Malaysia. The Companies Commission of Malaysia (Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia - SSM) records SME data, …