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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 from around the world.

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• Introduction
• The Problem
• What Use Are Groups?
• The Elementary Forms of Participation in Decisions and Consensus
• Extreme Conflicts and Consensuses
• The Effects of Private or Public Discussions
• Conflicts and Extreme Consensuses
• The Role of Values
• 'Warm and Cold' Communications
• Consensus in Closed and Open Groups
• Decision-Making

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CHOICE Review

Conflict and Consensus should be useful to those interested in group dynamics. The book discusses topics such as groups' functions, decision making, group conflict and consensus and the role of values in that process, and communication. Unfortunately, the work is inaccessible to all but the most determined reader. The organization is problematic and the prose is convoluted and awkward, although some of this may be the result of translation. There are enough grammatical and sentence-structure problems and gender-exclusive language to distract the reader wading through a text that is inherently difficult enough. The authors often make unsubstantiated assertions, and when they do present research, they do not follow protocol. For example, when citing the result from one of their own studies, Moscovici and Doise discuss it in the concluding section of a chapter rather than earlier, where one might expect to find it. The bibliography is weak on American research. Professionals/practitioners or researchers/faculty. J. Chin; Le Moyne College

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Serge Moscovici is Professor both at the Ecole de Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociale, Paris and at the New School for Social Research, New York. Willem Doise is Professor in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Geneva.