What we need most urgently is better norms of behavior for political actors. In the short-to-medium term, something like Intentional Insights’ recently-announced project to promote sensible thinking and “wise decision making” in the political arena would be rather helpful. (The linked “full description document” explains quite well why current “fact checking” approaches are not good enough in practice.)
Also interesting, from the linked post:
3) If one were setting up a new party from scratch what principles could be established in order to align the party’s interests with the public interest much more effectively … [and] attract candidates very different to those who now dominate Parliament
My proposal—shape the internal workings of the party to be a learning organization (to use the management-science term) from day 1. Moreover, use modern online tools such as wikis, discussion forums, internal voting platforms ala Liquid Feedback and play-money prediction markets to let party members and adherents cooperate on campaign platforms, political and debate strategies, and everything that normally makes a party salient to the average, non-politically-involved person. (That is, the stuff that ‘average’ folks will be most willing to work on even in the absence of high-powered incentives, and also what’s most critical in practice to the success of a niche party in the real world.)
What we need most urgently is better norms of behavior for political actors. In the short-to-medium term, something like Intentional Insights’ recently-announced project to promote sensible thinking and “wise decision making” in the political arena would be rather helpful. (The linked “full description document” explains quite well why current “fact checking” approaches are not good enough in practice.)
Also interesting, from the linked post:
My proposal—shape the internal workings of the party to be a learning organization (to use the management-science term) from day 1. Moreover, use modern online tools such as wikis, discussion forums, internal voting platforms ala Liquid Feedback and play-money prediction markets to let party members and adherents cooperate on campaign platforms, political and debate strategies, and everything that normally makes a party salient to the average, non-politically-involved person. (That is, the stuff that ‘average’ folks will be most willing to work on even in the absence of high-powered incentives, and also what’s most critical in practice to the success of a niche party in the real world.)