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Sociocracy is a governance and decision-making method designed to enable self-organization in groups and organizations without traditional top-down authority. Rather than relying on majority votes or hierarchical decisions, sociocracy is based on the consent principle: a decision is valid as soon as no member of the circle has a serious, well-founded objection — meaning arguments count, not the number of votes.
For grassroots civil society initiatives, sociocracy offers a practical framework for making collective decisions that everyone can genuinely support, distributing responsibility across the group, and building a culture of equal participation — without falling into the inefficiencies of either pure consensus or informal power dynamics.
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