It’s a reasonable model. One problem with this as a predictive model, however, is that log-rolling happens across issues; a politician might give up on their budget-cutting to kill an anti-business provision, or give up an environmental rule to increase healthcare spending. So the gradients aren’t actually single valued, there’s a complex correlation / tradeoff matrix between them.
It seems like large organizations achieve structure through a combination of legislation and value-setting. They use policies and rules to legislate nuance, but rely on a single value to steer daily decision-making. This whole analysis really needs to be understood as being about the daily decision-making piece of the puzzle.
I think this ignores how decisions actually get made, but I think we’re operating at too high a level of abstraction to actually disagree productively.
It’s a reasonable model. One problem with this as a predictive model, however, is that log-rolling happens across issues; a politician might give up on their budget-cutting to kill an anti-business provision, or give up an environmental rule to increase healthcare spending. So the gradients aren’t actually single valued, there’s a complex correlation / tradeoff matrix between them.
It seems like large organizations achieve structure through a combination of legislation and value-setting. They use policies and rules to legislate nuance, but rely on a single value to steer daily decision-making. This whole analysis really needs to be understood as being about the daily decision-making piece of the puzzle.
I think this ignores how decisions actually get made, but I think we’re operating at too high a level of abstraction to actually disagree productively.