I agree that there are relatively few people in EA looking at anything I’d consider “the impact of collective action,” but I also think this makes sense given the reality of EA’s size and influence. We are a few thousand people (perhaps 10,000) spread across multiple continents. Working on advice for individuals (or even your nearest government) seems much more likely to bear fruit than figuring out which actions are most promising for large groups of people to take together.
I would be interested to see more work on questions like “what are the best predictors of a viral Change.org petition?”, where there’s a chance of leveraging large groups who aren’t connected to EA at all.
The work that a few EA-aligned people are doing to attempt to influence a parliamentary vote (using a relatively novel approach) may be of some interest to you, as well as this successful ballot initiative which involved some degree of public advocacy.
I agree that there are relatively few people in EA looking at anything I’d consider “the impact of collective action,” but I also think this makes sense given the reality of EA’s size and influence. We are a few thousand people (perhaps 10,000) spread across multiple continents. Working on advice for individuals (or even your nearest government) seems much more likely to bear fruit than figuring out which actions are most promising for large groups of people to take together.
I would be interested to see more work on questions like “what are the best predictors of a viral Change.org petition?”, where there’s a chance of leveraging large groups who aren’t connected to EA at all.
The work that a few EA-aligned people are doing to attempt to influence a parliamentary vote (using a relatively novel approach) may be of some interest to you, as well as this successful ballot initiative which involved some degree of public advocacy.