Process Areas

Proposals that change how the system works rather than what the system does. The unit of change is meta — the rules, structures, and incentives that shape how decisions get made: how markets stay competitive, how citizens engage with self-governance, how the country plans for finite resources. Get those right and the room for productive policy widens.

These differ from Policy Areas, which are substantive interventions inside specific issue domains, and from the PA-3 empower project, the analytical work of mapping where the system falls short in one district.

State indicators describe drafting state, not importance. Drafting means a substantive draft exists. In review means ready for outside scrutiny. Planned would be a slot identified but not yet written.

1. Capitalism as a Game That Can Be WonDrafting
Rule design that keeps markets competitive — the "game maintenance" framework. Transparency, competition preservation, and dynamic balancing applied to wealth and market concentration.
2. American ExperimentDrafting
A diagnostic of declining civic participation and trust, plus a strategy for revival. Civic infrastructure, structural fixes to incentives, and the deliberative mechanisms that make meaningful participation possible.
3. Fossil FuelsDrafting
Fossil fuels are finite. We depend on them. No adequate replacement is currently deployed at scale. Therefore, we need a plan. This proposal is the case for the planning, not the plan itself.

How to engage

Same engagement model as the rest of the site. Read, contribute corrections or sources via GitHub, or propose larger work — see the contribute page for the mechanics.

If a planned slot interests you and you want to draft it, that's a propose-tier contribution. Open an issue first to align on scope.