Great, and thanks for your replies, makes a lot of sense! :)
I would be curious to hear what makes you skeptical about democratic oversight
I think I generally see little criticism of leadership, so per default I think this just doesn’t happen too much. It takes effort and care to do this well, and seems to have emotional costs to many. Those emotional costs probably get bigger the closer you are to the people who you’re overseeing. I’ve experienced it at least twice within local EA chapters that I and others kind of danced around patterns of behavior that we thought was way less than ideal because it felt (at least to me) aversive to directly criticize somebodies’ behavior when I’m on a friendly basis with them. Another anecdote that comes up, Amnesty International is to my knowledge organized around democratic oversight from its members and some years ago they had a huge leadership crisis including workplace bullying that was only revealed due to a suicide, which was really shocking to me. This had to become as bad as it gets before something happend.
Great, and thanks for your replies, makes a lot of sense! :)
I think I generally see little criticism of leadership, so per default I think this just doesn’t happen too much. It takes effort and care to do this well, and seems to have emotional costs to many. Those emotional costs probably get bigger the closer you are to the people who you’re overseeing. I’ve experienced it at least twice within local EA chapters that I and others kind of danced around patterns of behavior that we thought was way less than ideal because it felt (at least to me) aversive to directly criticize somebodies’ behavior when I’m on a friendly basis with them. Another anecdote that comes up, Amnesty International is to my knowledge organized around democratic oversight from its members and some years ago they had a huge leadership crisis including workplace bullying that was only revealed due to a suicide, which was really shocking to me. This had to become as bad as it gets before something happend.