Thousands of institutions have potential to do more good, but are hampered by dysfunctions such as excess bureaucracy, internal politics, and misalignment of the values they and their employees hold with their actions. Often these dysfunctions are well-known by their employees, but still persist.
We’re excited to fund proposals to study institutional dysfunction and investigate solutions, as well as tools to monitor dysfunctions that lead to poor EA outcomes, and to empower employees to solve them.
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Project ideas from this page that are relevant to this idea:
Longtermist democracy / institutional quality index (evelynciara)
Longtermism Policy Lab (JBPDavies)
A global observatory for institutional improvement opportunities (IanDavidMoss)
Platform Democracy Institutions (aviv)
Scaling successful policies (SjirH)
Representation of future generations within major institutions (SjirH)
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Existing example of work in this space: Joe Edelman’s ‘Values-Based Social Design’.
(This idea is potentially related to existing Project Idea ‘Institutional experimentation’.)
Solving institutional dysfunction
Values and Reflective Processes
Thousands of institutions have potential to do more good, but are hampered by dysfunctions such as excess bureaucracy, internal politics, and misalignment of the values they and their employees hold with their actions. Often these dysfunctions are well-known by their employees, but still persist.
We’re excited to fund proposals to study institutional dysfunction and investigate solutions, as well as tools to monitor dysfunctions that lead to poor EA outcomes, and to empower employees to solve them.
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Project ideas from this page that are relevant to this idea:
Longtermist democracy / institutional quality index (evelynciara)
Longtermism Policy Lab (JBPDavies)
A global observatory for institutional improvement opportunities (IanDavidMoss)
Platform Democracy Institutions (aviv)
Scaling successful policies (SjirH)
Representation of future generations within major institutions (SjirH)
--
Existing example of work in this space: Joe Edelman’s ‘Values-Based Social Design’.
(This idea is potentially related to existing Project Idea ‘Institutional experimentation’.)