There’s also an EA org called Centre for Election Science looking at different voting systems.
My view is that fighting online disinformation and media bias in LMICs is a tractable approach, but I’d be interested in exploring efforts to strengthen electoral commissions and new ideas on incorporating public opinion, evidence and theory into policy making.
The Centre for Election Science are doing some super interesting stuff. Would be interesting to try and do something similar in the UK.
I think the information and democracy track (fake news/fairer and more effective campaigns/democratic literacy) and the electoral reform track have a lot to gain from each other. We can’t get the democracy we want (if you go for the defending liberal democracy as a cause argument) without both sides succeeding.
You might be interested in some of the posts on this tag: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/safeguarding-liberal-democracy
There’s also an EA org called Centre for Election Science looking at different voting systems.
My view is that fighting online disinformation and media bias in LMICs is a tractable approach, but I’d be interested in exploring efforts to strengthen electoral commissions and new ideas on incorporating public opinion, evidence and theory into policy making.
The Centre for Election Science are doing some super interesting stuff. Would be interesting to try and do something similar in the UK.
I think the information and democracy track (fake news/fairer and more effective campaigns/democratic literacy) and the electoral reform track have a lot to gain from each other. We can’t get the democracy we want (if you go for the defending liberal democracy as a cause argument) without both sides succeeding.