The conceptual foundations of preventive governance
Frameworks are how the Lab makes its ideas usable. Each names a problem precisely enough to act on — and anchors the research and data products built around it.
The Architecture of Delay
Why institutions act late — and how governance can be redesigned around anticipation.
A diagnostic framework explaining the structural, cognitive, and political reasons institutions consistently act after the optimal moment for intervention — and how decision systems can be rebuilt around anticipation.
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Measuring how institutions create societal value, strengthen public capability, and prevent harm.
A proposed framework for measuring how much different actors — governments, technology companies, foundations, and multilateral institutions — contribute to global public goods that markets undersupply.
Read the frameworkPreventive Public Goods
Public goods whose value lies in the harm they avoid.
A concept for identifying a distinct class of public goods — those whose entire value lies in averted harm: disinformation prevention, election integrity, climate early warning, AI safety, cybersecurity, and conflict prevention.
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