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>> In science, 'adversarial collaboration' is a modality of collaboration wherein opposing views work together in order to jointly advance knowledge of the area
by tivert 3y ago
>> In science, 'adversarial collaboration' is a modality of collaboration wherein opposing views work together in order to jointly advance knowledge of the area under dispute.
> Seems like this is the ideal model for how politics should work.
If you think so, I don't think you really know what politics is.
IMHO, the adversarial collaboration is only practical in relatively easy cases, when there's already significant common ground and shared goals between the factions.
> Instead of the norm, which is opposing parties yelling past each other and blocking the other party just out of spite.
That's what happens when the factions are unified and have incompatible ideologies. The blocking isn't so much out of spite, but a desire to see something not done.
- atoav 3y agoIn most modern democracies coalitions are the norm and one party winning and stamping their worst onto everybody the exception. Extremely uncooperative entrenched two party systems like in the US are not very common. And guess what: in coalitions you get more of your parties program through (and thus increase the chance of getting relected) if you manage to convince the other parts of the coalition that your plans are reasonable and make some changes that they demand. Sometimes that leads to "watered down" laws that are neither here nor there, but often this also leads to better, more practical laws that are better for more people.