Washington Consensus

(noun)

A term that refers to a set of ten relatively specific economic policy prescriptions that constitute the "standard" reform package promoted for crisis-wracked developing countries.

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Examples of Washington Consensus in the following topics:

  • The International Monetary Structure

    • This view has been labelled as the Washington Consensus.

  • Cohesiveness

    • Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoints.
    • This is a photograph of a group of protesters outside the AIPAC conference at the Washington, D.C.

  • Privacy Rights and the Right to Die

    • The state of Washington voters saw Ballot Initiative 119 in 1991, the state of California placed Proposition 161 on the ballot in 1992, Oregon voters passed Measure 16 (Death with Dignity Act) in 1994, the state of Michigan included Proposal B in their ballot in 1998, and Washington's Initiative 1000 passed in 2008.
    • Physician aid-in-dying (PAD), or assisted suicide, is legal in the states of Washington, Oregon, and Montana.
    • Voters in the state of Washington saw Ballot Initiative 119 in 1991.
    • Physician-assisted suicide in the United States is legal in the states of Oregon, Montana, and Washington .
    • The Oregon Death with Dignity Act and the Washington statute modeled after it, set certain requirements and safeguards before a person may commit suicide with a doctor's assistance.

  • Head of State

    • William Howard Taft started the tradition of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in 1910 at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C., on the Washington Senators' Opening Day.
    • William Howard Taft started the tradition of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in 1910 at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C., on the Washington Senators' Opening Day.
    • George Washington, the first President of the United States, set the precedent for an executive head of state in republican systems of government.

  • Public Interest Groups

    • Because of this difficulty, even when there is consensus around the good of a broad topic, the work of a single public interest group might still be controversial.

  • Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement

    • The student sit-ins protesting segregated lunch counters (1960); the Freedom Rides (1961) in which activists attempted to integrate bus terminals, restrooms, and water fountains; voter registration drives; and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963), in which civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
    • The March on Washington, a key event in the U.S.

  • Political Parties from 1800–1824

    • President George Washington, while officially nonpartisan, generally supported the Federalists, and that party made Washington their iconic hero.
    • Washington (in heaven) tells partisans to keep the pillars of Federalism, Republicanism and Democracy

  • Inherent Powers

    • The first three presidents, Washington, Adams, and Jefferson established their importance in different ways.
    • First, Washington helped to establish them in the first place, when he wanted to use them as a basis for proclaiming a policy of strict neutrality when the British and French were at war.

  • Cabinet Departments

    • For example, national park service employees are considered staff of the Department of the Interior, but some may work on policy in Washington, while others tend to conservation in Yellowstone.
    • The first president of the United States, George Washington, established the tradition of having a cabinet of advisors.
    • George Washington thus began the practice of having a formal cabinet of advisors when he appointed Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph.
    • Describe the constitutional origin of the Cabinet and the shape of its growth Washington's presidency

  • Radio News

    • Arundel is credited with creating the first 24-hour all- news station, radio or television, in the United States in January 1961 on his owned and operated WAVA in Washington.
    • Arundel helped other stations in New York and Chicago also to convert to his all-news format and then met direct competition from Washington Post-owned WTOP in 1969.
    • All-news has for years been a top-rated radio format in New York, Washington, D.C., and other cities, but as big city traffic worsens and people work longer hours that increase the urgency of planning their day ahead, the focus of such stations has increasingly been on traffic and weather, often updated every 10 minutes.
    • Attempts at long-form commercial all-news stations, such as Washington Post Radio, have been largely unsuccessful.