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Delegate to institutions populated with experts and actually listen to the advice of those experts.

• AndrewKemendo 12y ago
  Do you mean that congress and the executive branch should delegate? If so they largely do in the form of think tanks, policy centers and research groups like RAND. I know that there are a lot of big decisions that came from those organizations, one of the best examples of this is Team B [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
  • j2kun 12y ago
    Then why do I keep seeing Senate committee hearings where the Congress representatives are completely uninformed and challenge the people that come to speak to them? (about climate change, how the internet works, etc.)
    • AndrewKemendo 12y ago
      Because it is a show?
      • mpyne 12y ago
        It's exactly this. Congress in front of cameras is far, far different than Congress behind closed doors. The thing people sort of gloss over for politicians is the Cantor Effect: These guys normally actually need to get re-elected, or elected in higher offices. They have to appease their base, even if that means asking stupid questions they already know the answers to. FDR had a saying which I'm probably misquoting, "I like your idea, it's the right thing to do. I want to do it. Now go make me do it." You make politicians do stuff by convincing their base of support.
• A_COMPUTER 12y ago
  I believe both modern China and fascist Italy did something like this, with a "stakeholder" model (corporatism, social and commercial groups of interest to government have a seat at the table) of governance. I'm not slyly trying to bash the idea through negative connotations, but if it's similar I wonder if we could learn from them. I can think of a few downsides, but there are upsides too.
• snowwrestler 12y ago
  That's what regulatory agencies are, like the FCC and SEC. Anyone think they're the answer?