Editing Polder model (section)

{{Short description|Dutch method of consensus decision-making}}
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The '''polder model''' ({{langx|nl|poldermodel}}) is a method of [[consensus decision-making]], based on the Dutch version of consensus-based economic and social policymaking in the 1980s and 1990s.<ref name=Sanders>[[Ewoud Sanders]], ''Woorden met een verhaal'' (Amsterdam / Rotterdam, 2004), 104–06.</ref><ref>Stijn Kuipers, ''Het begin van het moderne Nederlandse poldermodel; De Hoge Raad van Arbeid van 1920 als eerste manifestatie van het Nederlandse tripartiete sociaaleconomische overlegmodel?'' (Nijmegen, 2015), 3.</ref> It gets its name from the Dutch word (''[[polder]]'') for tracts of land enclosed by dikes.

The polder model has been described as "a pragmatic recognition of pluriformity" and "cooperation despite differences". It is thought that the Dutch politician [[Ina Brouwer]] was the first to use the term ''poldermodel'', in her 1990 article "{{Lang|nl|Het socialisme als poldermodel?}}" ("[[Socialism]] as Polder Model?"), although it is uncertain whether she coined the term or simply seems to have been the first to write it down.<ref name=Sanders/><ref>Ewoud Sanders, [http://www.nrc.nl/handelsblad/2002/04/22/poldermodel-7586691 "Poldermodel"], ''[[NRC Handelsblad]]'', 22 April 2002.</ref>