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  • Piven defines "dissensus" as a tug of war between the need for political leaders to "mobilize majorities" and "disruptive challengers work (ing) to fragment them."

    Frances Fox Piven's "Challenging Authority" 2008

  • I think we're largely in agreement, but I think that this notion of "dissensus" really needs to be fleshed out.

    Serendip's Exchange - 2009

  • An ethics of dissensus: postmodernity, feminism, and the politics of radical democracy.

    Feminist Political Philosophy McAfee, Noëlle 2009

  • Potential or actual "voter dissensus is the main source of movement influence on public policy."

    Frances Fox Piven's "Challenging Authority" 2008

  • It is not my intention, of course, to portray Canadian Muslims as a single community, with a dissensus group at its core.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • It is not my intention, of course, to portray Canadian Muslims as a single community, with a dissensus group at its core.

    Counter-dissent: the case of Tarek Fatah 2008

  • But the way some Orthodox seem to see it, the dissensus is irresolvable in principle.

    Orthodoxy on churches outside "the Church" Mike L 2007

  • Rather, it precedes those core questions, and might, as in this case, actually preclude the need to fight about such core issues in cases where there might be dissensus within the government.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Rather, it precedes those core questions, and might, as in this case, actually preclude the need to fight about such core issues in cases where there might be dissensus within the government.

    Balkinization 2007

  • But the way some Orthodox seem to see it, the dissensus is irresolvable in principle.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Mike L 2007

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