I’m not aware of any such organizations! This is an example of one of the ‘holes’ that I’m trying to highlight in our ecosystem.
We have so many people proposing and discussing general ideas, but there’s no process in place to rigorously compare those ideas to each other, choose a few of those ideas to move forward, write up legislation for the ideas that are selected, and advertise that legislation to policymakers.
I don’t object to the community proposing 5-10x more ideas than it formally writes up as policies; as you say, some filtering is appropriate. I do object to the community spending 5-10x more time proposing ideas than it spends on drafting them. The reason why it makes sense to have lots of ideas is that proposing an idea is (or should be) quick and easy compared to the hard work of drafting it into an actual policy document. If we spend 70% of our resources on general academic discussion of ideas without anyone ever making a deliberate effort to select and promote one or two of those ideas for legislative advocacy, then something’s gone badly wrong.
I’m not aware of any such organizations! This is an example of one of the ‘holes’ that I’m trying to highlight in our ecosystem.
We have so many people proposing and discussing general ideas, but there’s no process in place to rigorously compare those ideas to each other, choose a few of those ideas to move forward, write up legislation for the ideas that are selected, and advertise that legislation to policymakers.
I don’t object to the community proposing 5-10x more ideas than it formally writes up as policies; as you say, some filtering is appropriate. I do object to the community spending 5-10x more time proposing ideas than it spends on drafting them. The reason why it makes sense to have lots of ideas is that proposing an idea is (or should be) quick and easy compared to the hard work of drafting it into an actual policy document. If we spend 70% of our resources on general academic discussion of ideas without anyone ever making a deliberate effort to select and promote one or two of those ideas for legislative advocacy, then something’s gone badly wrong.