I feel like ALEC and CEI should be more explicitly coded Republican. They may be nominally non partisan but in practice they are very much Red Team in terms of who they work with and who works against them. The Future Now Fund was for instance founded as an explicit counterweight to ALEC; the current iteration of that part of their mission, if I understand correctly, is Lawmaker Network, https://thelawmakernetwork.org/.
This matters if you are trying to broaden an abundance agenda coalition, because much (most?) of the intellectual left sees ALEC and CEI as working corruptly as an arm of the GOP to shield bad corporate actors from liability (e.g. for pollution or mistreating workers), and it is at least possible that they do some of that alongside real abundance-unlocking advocacy work.
Oct 13, 2022·edited Oct 13, 2022Liked by Sarah Constantin
From their Twitter feed, https://twitter.com/IJ, looks like the Institute for Justice (apparently with some libertarian leanings?) is regularly posting about occupational licensing, "anti-competitive" laws, and zoning, among other topics. Maybe not directly in the context of an "abundance agenda," but broadly similar to the regulatory reform activities of several of the other orgs you've identified?
I feel like ALEC and CEI should be more explicitly coded Republican. They may be nominally non partisan but in practice they are very much Red Team in terms of who they work with and who works against them. The Future Now Fund was for instance founded as an explicit counterweight to ALEC; the current iteration of that part of their mission, if I understand correctly, is Lawmaker Network, https://thelawmakernetwork.org/.
This matters if you are trying to broaden an abundance agenda coalition, because much (most?) of the intellectual left sees ALEC and CEI as working corruptly as an arm of the GOP to shield bad corporate actors from liability (e.g. for pollution or mistreating workers), and it is at least possible that they do some of that alongside real abundance-unlocking advocacy work.
Also: Arnold Ventures. Not sure what they've done on “abundance” in the past, but they are hiring now for a VP-level role to focus on this: https://www.arnoldventures.org/careers/vice-president-of-infrastructure
From their Twitter feed, https://twitter.com/IJ, looks like the Institute for Justice (apparently with some libertarian leanings?) is regularly posting about occupational licensing, "anti-competitive" laws, and zoning, among other topics. Maybe not directly in the context of an "abundance agenda," but broadly similar to the regulatory reform activities of several of the other orgs you've identified?
Useful research!