Conflict and Consensus: A General Theory of Collective Decisions

By Serge Moscovici and Willem Doise

Book Overview

This book presents a bold new theory of the processes of collective decision-making that draws on theoretical influences ranging from group decision theory through to the authors′ own social representations theory. Moscovici and Doise offer a novel analysis of group conflict and the construction of consensus to produce a general theory of collective decisions.

Going beyond the traditional view that compromise is a negative process where group members merely comply in order to sustain cohesion, the authors argue that the conflict at the root of group decisions can be a positive force leading to changes in opinion and to innovation. Their theoretical framework is illustrated in depth with numerous empirical investigations fro

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080398457X
• ISBN13: 9780803984578
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"