This chapter discusses the importance of bipartisanship and the challenges faced by legislators when reframing issues. It explores strategies for influencing subject matter experts and decision-makers and emphasizes the need for technocracy and elite decision-making. The chapter also discusses addressing concerns about politics and optics by focusing on outcomes and providing technical expertise.
Alec Stapp is the co-founder of the Institute for Progress, a non-partisan innovation policy think tank aiming to “accelerate scientific, technological and industrial progress while safeguarding humanity’s future.” He joins the show to discuss how to achieve change in the age of lobbying, why bipartisanship is underrated, why US immigration policy is so slow-moving and MUCH more!
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Show Notes:
- Reimagining the Think Tank
- Progress is a Policy Choice
- Bipartisanship is Underrated
- Achieving Progress via Reframing
- Achieving Change in the Age of Lobbying
- Moonshot Projects and Incremental Change
- Ways to Enact Change Within Existing Institutions
- Governmental Embrace of Technology
- Reducing NIMBYism
- The Barbell Approach to Policy
- The Washington Mindset
- Reasons to be Optimistic
- Lessons From Other Countries
- Why Hasn’t Immigration Policy Changed?
- Alec as Emperor of the World
- MORE!
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