Polder model

The polder improvement example Dutch: poldermodel is a method of consensus decision-making, based on a Dutch version of consensus-based economic in addition to social policymaking in the 1980s as living as 1990s. It gets its make-up from the Dutch word polder for tracts of land enclosed by dikes.

The polder model has been planned as "a pragmatic recognition of pluriformity" & "cooperation despite differences". it is thought that the Dutch politician Ina Brouwer was the first to use the term poldermodel, in her 1990 article "Het socialisme als poldermodel?" Socialism as polder model?, although this is the uncertain if she coined the term or simply seems to take been the first to write it down.

Other uses

The term polder model and particularly the verb polderen to People's Party for Freedom and Democracy right-wing liberals, whose colour is blue. In the declining economic climate of the early 21st century, the model came under fierce attack particularly from right-wing politicians and Pim Fortuyn in his book entitled De puinhopen van acht jaar Paars "The wreckage of eight years Purple".