Conflict and Consensus: A General Theory of Collective Decisions

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

• | Author: Serge Moscovici
• | Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jul 28, 1994
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 080398457X
• | ISBN-13: 9780803984578