It was especially refreshing when you wrote, “In advocacy policies need to be of an appropriate scale for the actor you are talking to, so only aiming for low-scale policies hampers campaigners’ ability to push for change.”
I regularly have people ask me to do things that cost a few thousand pounds. In my job, I normally don’t have the time or opportunity to design a policy that costs less than £10 million. Campaigners think I’m more likely to act on their ideas if they ask for a small policy, but actually the opposite is often true.
Thanks for writing this. I agree wholeheartedly.
It was especially refreshing when you wrote, “In advocacy policies need to be of an appropriate scale for the actor you are talking to, so only aiming for low-scale policies hampers campaigners’ ability to push for change.”
I regularly have people ask me to do things that cost a few thousand pounds. In my job, I normally don’t have the time or opportunity to design a policy that costs less than £10 million. Campaigners think I’m more likely to act on their ideas if they ask for a small policy, but actually the opposite is often true.