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The alternatives, including consensus decision making and deliberative democracy ( which tend to alternate adversary, discussion, and voting over a longer period of time allocated to make the decision and explore implications ), are ancient.

However, they are less well studied in political science and economics.

Most commentators are suspicious of the utopian goals of the advocates of such non-adversarial processes, viewing competition as essential to a good result.