Consensus-based institutions let a minority block majority-supported policy.

Evidence

Because of its consensus requirements, the UN is incapable of breaking the stranglehold of the population taboo. In an ironic twist, the Vatican wields stronger influence in blocking the UN from supporting voluntary family planning services for women worldwide than it does for its own followers. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2595

Categorization

• XREF: Mechanism of minority veto via consensus rules parallels claims about how small mobilized groups shape policy against majority preferences. — connects to: Majority-supported U.S. policies pass only rarely, making countermajoritarian entrenchment tests unusable — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 421; U.S. political institutions structurally hinder majority-driven policy change. — Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, Testing Theories of American Politics:…, 106
• SEED: Angle: how consensus requirements structurally empower minority vetoes in international bodies, versus majoritarian systems.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2595