Not directly an answer to your questions, but I think it would be valuable to find a suitable name for this idea, in order to facilitate discussion of it and make it more real in people’s minds. Something like ‘political donation matching’, except that ‘donation matching’ typically refers to a different practice.
It’s also worth pointing out that the basic mechanism is not specific to politics and can be extended to other domains where donations offset each other in the way political donations typically do.
I believe the general name for this sort of thing if “moral trade”; see this paper by Toby Ord: http://www.amirrorclear.net/files/moral-trade.pdf. But yeah, this is something we’ve struggled with a bit, including trying not to use the word “matching” in our emails describing the concept. I think the best donor-oriented framing we have right now is “making a deal” with a donor for the other side. So maybe “political donation dealmaking”? But that sounds someone clunky to me.
Not directly an answer to your questions, but I think it would be valuable to find a suitable name for this idea, in order to facilitate discussion of it and make it more real in people’s minds. Something like ‘political donation matching’, except that ‘donation matching’ typically refers to a different practice.
It’s also worth pointing out that the basic mechanism is not specific to politics and can be extended to other domains where donations offset each other in the way political donations typically do.
I believe the general name for this sort of thing if “moral trade”; see this paper by Toby Ord: http://www.amirrorclear.net/files/moral-trade.pdf. But yeah, this is something we’ve struggled with a bit, including trying not to use the word “matching” in our emails describing the concept. I think the best donor-oriented framing we have right now is “making a deal” with a donor for the other side. So maybe “political donation dealmaking”? But that sounds someone clunky to me.