Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: consensus and majority vote

[Gary.Stewart (Gary.Stewart]

actually I disagree with your disagreement, I think 'parliamentary' type
decision making came in when the people 'deciding' were no longer part of a
community where everybody new each other and had to live with the
consequences of their decisions

modern national democratic governments are a case in point

in cohousing however, whatever decision making system is used, we do live in
close proximity with each other so some result whether well used 'majority
voting' or badly used 'consensus' or vice versa it still has to lead to an
overall acceptance by most people in the community

I agree with the earlier comment about it's not so much the TYPE of system
but how well it works in any particular group

'good' systems can fail 'bad' systems can work

> My only disagreement with Ann's statement is that as Tree has pointed out,
> consensus based communities are not new. Parliamentary procedure is much
> newer, in historical terms, very new, and was developed in order to
resolve
> conflicts _between_ communities (or their representatives) that were not
> interested in having consensus. They had competing interests.


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