Political Strategy: Using Smaller Reforms in One Country to Achieve Larger Reforms in Another

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Taking a small country as a precedent, advocates can gather evidence and case studies to show larger countries that change is possible. However, it is important to have a clear strategy and step-by-step plan instead of expecting change to magically happen. Instead, resources should be focused on bigger countries with neglected animals, with only marginal resources spent on smaller countries.

Neil Dullaghan is a Senior Research Manager in the animal welfare department at Rethink Priorities. Neil also holds a PhD in Political Science and is a fund manager of the Effective Altruism Animal Welfare Fund.

In this episode Neil talks us through his policy research in the EU as well as other exciting projects and impactful research that Rethink Priorities has produced and includes some of the most obscure resource recommendations to date!

Relevant links to things mentioned throughout the show:

Rethink Priorities Website
- Strategic considerations for upcoming EU farmed animal legislation - Rethink Priorities research by Neil
- Other Neil publications
Revolutions: The Revolutions of 1848 - Mike Duncan
History of Rome - Mike Duncan (Podcast)
Engines of Liberty - David Cole
Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries - Valerie J. Bunce, Sharon L. Wolchik
Danish political drama - Borgen - Season 3

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