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Consensus Building By Committed Agents, William W. Hackborn, Tetiana Reznychenko, Yihang Zhang
Consensus Building By Committed Agents, William W. Hackborn, Tetiana Reznychenko, Yihang Zhang
CODEE Journal
One of the most striking features of our time is the polarization, nationally and globally, in politics and religion. How can a society achieve anything, let alone justice, when there are fundamental disagreements about what problems a society needs to address, about priorities among those problems, and no consensus on what constitutes justice itself? This paper explores a model for building social consensus in an ideologically divided community. Our model has three states: two of these represent ideological extremes while the third state designates a moderate position that blends aspects of the two extremes. Each individual in the community is …