Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to a consociation.
Wiktionary
- adj. politics Having major internal divisions along ethnic, religious, or linguistic lines, with none of the divisions large enough to form a majority group, yet nonetheless stable due to consultation among the elites of each of its major social groups.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. U.S. Of or pertaining to a consociation.
Etymologies
- consociation + -al (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When I first saw the word "consociational" I thought it was a typographical error.”
“He opts instead for a consociational democracy: a system in which religious, cultural, national, and economic considerations will be balanced by mutual agreement, within a power-sharing government.”
The Huffington Post: Ami Kaufman: Israel: The One-State Solution Should be Taken Off the Table
“Michael Ball is their collectivly elected consociational organizer.”
“This may be a consociational weakness, a set of institutions that make compromise more difficult.”
“It would free us from the shackles of the current consociational state of affairs and would create the space for ‘normal politics’ that strange phenomenon everyone claims to desire to finally take root.”
“As my colleague was just saying…” (Or why consensus makes me puke)
“Yash Tandon from Uganda had long ago questioned the basic assumptions and definitions implied in the European notion of a centralized state or the conception of ‘consociational democracy’ being imposed on Africa with multi-tribal societies.”
“This consociational characterisation not only fails to conform to reality but it is also aimed at preventing the emergence of a national identity.”
“Words connected with our ecclesiastical institutions, as associational, consociational, to fellowship, to missionate.”
“To funeralize and to missionate, along with consociational, were contributions of the backwoods pulpit; perhaps it also produced hell-roaring and hellion, the latter of which was a favorite of the Mormons and even got into a sermon by Henry Ward Beecher.”
Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary
“To these novelties, apparently without any thought of their uncouthness, Fowler added to missionate and consociational.”
Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 2. The Language in the Making
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Groupthink
Intra-Group dynamics, psychology of/within, and heard mentality.
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john "The failure of paid electronic newspapers should have been telling: the Internet is a wholly different environment. Instant, yes, but also consociational, open source, and freely available."
The Huffington Post, The Newspaper Is Dead, Long Live The Newspaper, by Mike Doyle, August 14, 2008 Aug 14, 2008