One theme is that good governance isn’t exactly a solved problem. IMO EA should use a mix of approaches: copying best practices for high-stakes scenarios, and pioneering new practices for lower-stakes scenarios. (For example, setting up a small fund to be distributed according to some experimental new method, then observing the results. EDIT: Or setting up a tournament of some kind where each team is governed according to a randomly chosen method.) Advancing the state of the art doesn’t just help us, it also seems like a promising cause area on its own.
Here are some forum tags that are potentially relevant:
Holden Karnofsky has some interesting thoughts on governance:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/c3y6khh7mxiWrDyeb/nonprofit-boards-are-weird
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/hxTFAetiiSL7dZmyb/ideal-governance-for-companies-countries-and-more
One theme is that good governance isn’t exactly a solved problem. IMO EA should use a mix of approaches: copying best practices for high-stakes scenarios, and pioneering new practices for lower-stakes scenarios. (For example, setting up a small fund to be distributed according to some experimental new method, then observing the results. EDIT: Or setting up a tournament of some kind where each team is governed according to a randomly chosen method.) Advancing the state of the art doesn’t just help us, it also seems like a promising cause area on its own.
Here are some forum tags that are potentially relevant:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/nonprofit-governance
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/improving-institutional-decision-making
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/effective-institutions-project