In recent years, voters in Brazil, Uruguay, and Venezuela have elected leaders with avowedly leftist politics and a vehement rhetorical opposition to Washington Consensus economics (also known as neoliberalism).
Although it is generally accepted that the antecedents of rational discourse are in ancient and medieval rhetoric, there is no consensus about the roots of rhetoric itself; what is specially lacking is a clear insight into the generic background of the early rhetorical text and discourse types that have furthered the steady advance of discursive rationality in modern society.
Although each model has its peculiarities, there is a clear consensus on the typical rhetorical components of such structure as well as on their order of appearance.
This was a rhetorical reversal of a pro-monopoly consensus that had held since the late 1960s.
The word that keeps coming to me, inhabiting this rhetorical community, is unfettered: unfettered by proportionality, consensus, accuracy, restraint, desire for unity.
Beard believes that there was a very brief moment after 9/11 — "a kind of extra-ordinary rhetorical aporia" — when there was not yet a consensus about how to define the attacks, and that this gap had firmly closed in the interval between her composing her contribution and its publication, two weeks later.
The first is that while aid effectiveness has a conceptual and rhetorical appeal, when operational details are added the consensus may break down, particularly if the status quo is challenged or in-country working methods disrupted.
This tension results in countervailing rhetorical and social fault-lines that undermine the political consensus necessary to generate meaningful action to address arguably the two most significant threats facing the international community today: climate change and nuclear security, including nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism.
There is indeed a consensus among GHAs who take a stand, at least from a rhetorical point of view, in favor of avoiding user fees at the point of delivery.
Thus our research supports Berman's contention that, "to the extent that international human rights are now an important element of global legal consciousness; it is because of a long process of rhetorical persuasion, treaty codification, and other forms of "soft law" slowly changing the international consensus, not because of positivist decree".
