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Building consensus : respecting different points of view / by McCulloch, Amanda,author.(CARDINAL)417122;
Making decisions -- What's the law? -- Learning important laws -- Group members -- Why other opinions matter -- The importance of consensus -- Using consensus in problem solving -- Juries and consensus -- When consensus isn't possible -- Building consensus successfully -- The process -- Consensus in practice -- Small-scale consensus -- Consensus in your community.It can be difficult to take each person's ideas into consideration when trying to make a decision. However, respecting different points of view is essential to coming to a consensus. The U.S. government governs by consensus, meaning that it takes into consideration all the relationships between each branch of the federal government as well as the federal government's relationship to each state government. On a smaller scale, students will understand how reaching a consensus can help reach a decision by making each person involved in a decision feel as though their point of view has value.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Consensus (Social sciences); Civics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The wisdom of crowds : why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies, and nations / by Surowiecki, James,1967-(CARDINAL)672311;
MARCIVE 03/04/09Includes bibliographical references.In this book, New Yorker columnist Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant--better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. This seemingly counterintuitive notion has major ramifications for how businesses operate, how knowledge is advanced, how economies are (or should be) organized and how we live our daily lives. With seemingly boundless erudition and in clear, entertaining prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, economic behaviorism, artificial intelligence, military history and political theory to show just how this principle operates in the real world.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Consensus (Social sciences); Common good.; Group decision making.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Together we decide : an essential guide for making good group decisions. by Freshley, Craig,author.(CARDINAL)861015;
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Basics -- What Is a Good Group Decision? -- Ways of Making Group Decisions -- Culture Wins Every Time -- Attitudes -- The Critical Five -- Open to All Truths -- No One Is Smarter Than All of Us -- Authentic Effort Builds Trust -- For the Good of the Group -- Practices -- Creating a Vision, Mission, and Goals -- Degrees of Membership -- Meetings and Facilitation -- From an Idea to a Decision -- Key Questions in Any Process -- How to Fuel Creativity -- Even When We Disagree -- It Matters How We Listen -- Ways to Get Along -- Conclusion -- Index -- About the Author."Does your group need help making good decisions? All groups--teams, boards, nonprofits, businesses, governments--must make decisions to make forward progress. In organizations large and small, simple and complex, public and private, people need to decide things together. With tips, principles, examples, and stories, Craig Freshley shares the essentials that groups need to make decisions that provide lasting benefits. Practical and authoritative, this friendly guide from a veteran group facilitator is a must-have for those seeking proven techniques for collaborative decision-making. Board members and senior staff in the nonprofit sector--where there's often a high expectation of collaboration--and corporate leaders who have a collaborative, inclusive mindset or culture, will find this book particularly valuable. Freshley's message is especially pertinent to today's world: It's through collaboration, not competition, that groups of the future will create, innovate, and thrive. It is collaboration, not competition that will save us from extinction."--Publisher's description
Subjects: Group decision making.; Group problem solving.; Consensus (Social sciences);
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Washington rules : America's path to permanent war / by Bacevich, Andrew J.(CARDINAL)753262;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.Introduction: Slow learner -- The advent of semiwar -- Illusions of flexibility and control -- The credo restored -- Reconstituting the trinity -- Counterfeit COIN -- Cultivating our own garden.For the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about America's military policy have remained unchanged: American security requires the United States (and us alone) to maintain a permanent armed presence around the globe, and to be ready to intervene anywhere at any time. In the Obama era, just as in the Bush years, these beliefs remain unquestioned. In this vivid analysis, Andrew J. Bacevich presents the origins of this consensus, forged at a moment when American power was at its height. He exposes the preconceptions, biases, and habits that underlie our pervasive faith in military might, especially the notion that overwhelming superiority will oblige others to accommodate America's needs and desires--whether for cheap oil, cheap credit, or cheap consumer goods. And he challenges the usefulness of our militarism as it has become both unaffordable and increasingly dangerous.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Consensus (Social sciences); Consensus (Social sciences); Military policy;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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The consequences of consent : elections, citizen control, and popular acquiesence / by Ginsberg, Benjamin.(CARDINAL)161660;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: General will.; Representative government and representation.; Consensus (Social sciences); Elections.; Pressure groups.; Consent (Law);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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A time to build : from family and community to Congress and the campus, how recommitting to our institutions can revive the American dream / by Levin, Yuval,author.(CARDINAL)706970;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- A crisis of dissolution. The missing links ; From molds to platforms -- Institutions in transition. We the people ; Professional help ; Campus cultures ; The informality machine ; Close to home -- A path to renewal. The case for commitment ; Beyond meritocracy -- Conclusion."Americans are living through a social crisis. Populist firebrands -- on left and right alike -- propose to address the crisis through acts of tearing down. They describe themselves as destroying oppressive establishments, clearing weeds, draining swamps. But, as acclaimed conservative intellectual Yuval Levin argues, this is a misguided prescription, rooted in a defective diagnosis. The social crisis we confront is defined not by an oppressive presence, but by a debilitating absence of forces that unite us and militate against alienation"--
Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc.; Consensus (Social sciences); American Dream.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The spirit of compromise : why governing demands it and campaigning undermines it / by Gutmann, Amy.(CARDINAL)148790; Thompson, Dennis F.(Dennis Frank),1940-(CARDINAL)173990;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-253) and index.Introduction -- Compromises -- Characteristics of compromise -- Mindsets of compromise -- Valuing compromise -- Resisting compromise -- Seeking compromise -- Campaigning v. governing -- Governing with campaigning.Argues that bipartisan compromise is essential to effective governing, and claims that the dominance of political campaigning in the United States has blocked compromise and threatened the effectiveness of American government.
Subjects: Compromise (Ethics); Consensus (Social sciences); Decision making; Democracy; Political planning;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Shattered consensus : the rise and decline of America's postwar political order / by Piereson, James.(CARDINAL)521861;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Piereson [posits that there is an] inevitable political turmoil that will overtake the United States in the next decade as a consequence of economic stagnation, the unsustainable growth of government, and the exhaustion of postwar arrangements that formerly underpinned American prosperity and power. The challenges of public debt, the retirement of the baby boom generation, and slow economic growth have reached a point where they require profound changes in the role of government in American life"--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.; Consensus (Social sciences); Liberalism; Political culture;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Polling and the democratic consensus / by Martin, L. John(Leslie John),1921-(CARDINAL)130518;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Public opinion polls.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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If we can keep it : how the republic collapsed and how it might be saved / by Tomasky, Michael,1960-author.(CARDINAL)633817;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-264) and index.
Subjects: Political culture; Polarization (Social sciences); Political participation;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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