Despite its success, the agreement found some political dissensus.

Unconstrained elite dissensus threatens political stability under certain specific conditions.

Critics of Margaret Thatcher's conviction politics say it "burst apart the old consensus" and has "fostered dissensus".

By mid-2010 the earlier global consensus for ongoing Keynesian stimulus had fractured, mirroring the dissensus that had emerged among prominent economists.

"America as Canon and Context: Literary History in a Time of Dissensus," American Literature, vol.

"Dissensus Achieved, Apologies Offered, and a Hinge Proclaimed: A Response to the Responses."

According to Henry Farrell and John Quiggin, by late 2009 the previous apparent consensus for Keynesian policy among prominent economists began to dissolve into "dissensus".

As Swyngedouw has argued, such forces have 'replaced debate, disagreement and dissensus with a series of technologies of governing that fuse around consensus, agreement, accountancy merits and technocratic environmental management'.

An Ethics of Dissensus: Postmodernity, Feminism, and the Politics of Radical Democracy, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Common mistake differs fundamentally from unilateral or mutual mistake in that it does not lead to dissensus but nonetheless results in a contract's being void on the basis of an incorrect underlying supposition.

Thus, in a cumulative response, consensus, dissensus and, possibly, conflict of opinions on matters concerning the management of change and on curriculum theories in action, could be examined between and within the different groups.

It is now clear, however, that the subjective will theory is the point of departure; in cases of dissensus, the shortcomings of that theory are corrected by an application of the reliance theory.

When interest group activity is added to electoral pressure, the 'shame' attached to being held responsible for social dissensus, lead to changes which may have been a voluntary response or have been supervised by a state responding to legitimate protest.

Where a person enters into a contract on the strength of a misrepresentation made to him, or as a result of duress or undue influence by the other party, the agreement is nevertheless valid because there is no dissensus.

Sam B. Girgus, "'The New Covenant' and the Dilemma of Dissensus: Bercovitch, Roth, and Doctorow," in Summoning: Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretative Theory, ed.

If a policy is a complex and ambiguous phenomenon, with aspects that go 'too far' for some people and 'not far enough'for others, it is important to acknowledge that the dissensus that attends its 'birth'will continue to affect its implementation.

Whereas consensus or agreement between the parties is usually regarded as the primary basis of contractual liability (will theory), mistake or error in contract refers to a situation in which the contracting party acts under an misapprehension, causing dissensus or disagreement between the parties.

Although it is arguable that the seeds of dissensus had already taken root in the surrounding world of penal thought, dividing those who advocated a welfare philosophy from those more inclined to place confidence in penalties and the traditional legal apparatus, in the Home Office at least the consensus still held.