I’m not very involved with EA/politics but I’d be interested in hearing discussion about how to improve decision making and institution design. For example—a fundamental problem with government bodies is they seem to function well early on, when they are made up of people who believe in the goal and there is a strong unified culture. But suffer from malaise as years pass and both people and systems get entrenched to the point that the goal is secondary. Incentive alignment decays and becomes virtually nonexistent in many governmental bodies.
Of course I also have a special interest in how the government can address wrong incentives caused by externalities.
What about more political experiments—stronger states rights, charter cities, special economic zones, as a way to move forward, and demonstrate effectiveness/ineffectiveness without trying to go through the disfunction we currently see in federal government?
And solving vetocracy at local levels through things like quadratic voting, systems that prevent gerrymandering, street votes, etc.
Anything else I haven’t heard of that seems a promising way to improve political outcomes!
I’m not very involved with EA/politics but I’d be interested in hearing discussion about how to improve decision making and institution design. For example—a fundamental problem with government bodies is they seem to function well early on, when they are made up of people who believe in the goal and there is a strong unified culture. But suffer from malaise as years pass and both people and systems get entrenched to the point that the goal is secondary. Incentive alignment decays and becomes virtually nonexistent in many governmental bodies.
Of course I also have a special interest in how the government can address wrong incentives caused by externalities.
What about more political experiments—stronger states rights, charter cities, special economic zones, as a way to move forward, and demonstrate effectiveness/ineffectiveness without trying to go through the disfunction we currently see in federal government?
And solving vetocracy at local levels through things like quadratic voting, systems that prevent gerrymandering, street votes, etc.
Anything else I haven’t heard of that seems a promising way to improve political outcomes!