How Change Happens

These posts are Version 2 of this material. Please email me with feedback. Sex and Drugs and Guns and Code Restart A Little Psychology How We Got Here More Psychology When the Model is the Harm Privacy, Power, and the Self Who Gets What and Why More Analogies What We Owe the Future Regulation Works How Change Happens Bibliography · Glossary What Has Actually Worked Alternatives to the dysfunctions described in this series of post exist. Ranked-choice voting in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and more than a dozen US cities has not produced chaos: it has produced legislatures that more closely reflect what voters actually want. Independent redistricting commissions have measurably reduced partisan gerrymandering in Arizona, California, and Michigan, where independent bodies now draw district lines rather than the legislators who benefit from them. New York City’s public matching funds for small donations have shifted the incentive structure for candidates, making it possible to run a…