consensualist

I think Obama should demand we operate on an anarchist consensualist approach, in which no plan is approved until each and every Congress member and Senator can agree with the plan.

Matthew Yglesias » 80 Votes? 2009

There is also the consensualist aim of blocking business initiatives that lack the consent of the "stakeholders" -- those, such as employees, customers and rival companies, thought to have a stake besides the owners.

Phelps on Culture and Dynamism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

From the point of view of a consensualist with an ambition to replicate the way in which the early Tony Blair dominated politics from the centre, the Tory party alone is an inadequate vehicle for his project.

Why Cameron prefers coalition to being alone with his own party 2010

And each argues that Sartwell could have done just as well, for the purpose of undermining consensualist accounts of legitimacy, with a much weaker claim.

Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2009 – January – 08 2009

And each argues that Sartwell could have done just as well, for the purpose of undermining consensualist accounts of legitimacy, with a much weaker claim.

Can anybody ever consent to the State? 2009

In the former case, the consensualist theory of legitimacy turns out to be viciously circular, and proves nothing about whether or not anyone consents to the State.

Can anybody ever consent to the State? 2009

Thus, whether his theory of truth is consensualist or realist, his view of the practices by which we attain it grants a central place to dialogue and social interaction.

The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge Longino, Helen 2006

What "and yet" turned out to mean, almost without variation, was that they were willing to walk off the edge of the known political map for a candidate who was running against, as he repeatedly said, "politics as usual," against what he called "consensualist centrist politics"; against what had come to be the very premise of the process, the notion that the winning and the maintaining of public office warranted the invention of a public narrative based only tangentially on observable reality.

Insider Baseball Didion, Joan 1988

First, if the worry is purely epistemic, it still poses a serious problem for any consensualist justification of the state — if it is the case, as I think it is, that it is illegitimate not only to use someone’s person or property without her consent, but also to use someone’s person or property when there is no possible way for you to find out whether she has consented or not.

Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2009 – January – 08 2009

First, if the worry is purely epistemic, it still poses a serious problem for any consensualist justification of the state — if it is the case, as I think it is, that it is illegitimate not only to use someone’s person or property without her consent, but also to use someone’s person or property when there is no possible way for you to find out whether she has consented or not.

Can anybody ever consent to the State? 2009