Public Questions & Answers
Date submitted: February 16, 2022
Question Summary:
How to engage with companies
Issue Areas: Corporate / NGO EngagementEngagement Experiences: Arms length writing for policy audiences
Reflections

Engaging to Reform U.S. Democracy Promotion
Background and Policy Setting Catherine Herrold studies how local civic actors—including nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), grassroots groups, and philanthropic foundations—promote economic development and democratic political reform. Her first book project examined how leaders of Egyptian NGOs and foundations understood the concept of “democracy” and promoted it in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. In…
Read MoreIssue Areas: American/Comparative Public PolicyEngagement Experiences: Arms length writing for policy audiences

Engaging on the Creation of Cybersecurity Norms
The challenge: How to advise on complex phenomena (creating cybersecurity norms) when the narrative surrounding them is oversimplified. In particular, it is difficult to explain to policymakers the intersubjectivity of norms and their sociological basis in a way that is immediately policy relevant. The “problem” in question often involves many dimensions not related to norms…
Read MoreIssue Areas: Digital / Cyber Space, Larger Systems: Economy, Environment, TechnologyEngagement Experiences: Arms length writing for policy audiences, Close collaboration with policymakers