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Handbook of Behavioural Change and Public Policy
Behavioural change has become a core issue of public policy. Behavioural instruments such as ‘nudging’ apply insights from behavioural economics and behavioural sciences, psychology and neurosciences across a broad range of policy areas. Behavioural insights teams and networks facilitate the global spread of behavioural public policies. Despite an ever-growing amount of literature, research has remained fragmented. This comprehensive Handbook unites interdisciplinary scholarship, with contributions critically assessing the state and direction of behavioural public policies, their normative implications and political consequences.
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Behavioural change has become a core issue of public policy in recent years. This comprehensive Handbook takes a multidisciplinary approach to examine the relationship between the two, exploring the ever-increasing analysis of behavioural change and the importance of ‘nudge’ in terms of public policy.
Uniting interdisciplinary scholarship, Holger Straßheim and Silke Beck have drawn together a wide variety of perspectives, allowing for the legal, political, economic and social aspects of behavioural change and public policy to be explored. Contributions by renowned experts critically assess the theories and conceptual developments from early experiments to recent strategies of behavioural public policy. Chapters also cover the proliferation and professionalization of these strategies in Europe and beyond, the application of behavioural insights and instruments across areas including health, sustainability, employment, pensions, development and taxation, and the normative ideas and political consequences of knowing and governing behaviour.
Political science and public policy scholars will find the inclusion of both critical and theory-driven research a vital tool, while policy-makers will appreciate the practical suggestions included in this Handbook.
Uniting interdisciplinary scholarship, Holger Straßheim and Silke Beck have drawn together a wide variety of perspectives, allowing for the legal, political, economic and social aspects of behavioural change and public policy to be explored. Contributions by renowned experts critically assess the theories and conceptual developments from early experiments to recent strategies of behavioural public policy. Chapters also cover the proliferation and professionalization of these strategies in Europe and beyond, the application of behavioural insights and instruments across areas including health, sustainability, employment, pensions, development and taxation, and the normative ideas and political consequences of knowing and governing behaviour.
Political science and public policy scholars will find the inclusion of both critical and theory-driven research a vital tool, while policy-makers will appreciate the practical suggestions included in this Handbook.
Critical Acclaim
‘Recent behavioral contributions to policy are innovative and in vogue, yet old and familiar; potentially highly effective yet quite mundane; somewhat paternalistic, somewhat libertarian, nonintrusive yet manipulative, and they can affect all aspects of our lives. This impressive compendium advances behaviorally informed policy thinking in important ways.’
– Eldar Shafir, Princeton University, US
‘This Handbook makes an important contribution to the study of behavioural public policy. It includes a wide range of perspectives that can truly be seen as interdisciplinary, the scholar and student will find many riches here.’
– Peter John, King''s College London, UK
– Eldar Shafir, Princeton University, US
‘This Handbook makes an important contribution to the study of behavioural public policy. It includes a wide range of perspectives that can truly be seen as interdisciplinary, the scholar and student will find many riches here.’
– Peter John, King''s College London, UK
Contributors
Contributors: A. Alemanno, S.R. Almeida, S. Beck, C. Berndt, B. Bornemann, S. Botzem, P. Burger, E. Ciriolo, A.-M. Farrell, J. Feitsma, R. Graf, P. Guldborg Hansen, F. Hörisch, M. Howlett, R. Jones, F. Lebaron, L. Leone, R. Lepenies, K. Loer, J.S. Lourenço, M. Małecka, J. Pykett, M. Quigley, S. Rawat, T. Schillemans, H. Straßheim, C.R. Sunstein, M. Tallacchini, J. Tosun, R. Tyers, A. van Aaken, R.K. Weaver, M.D. White, M. Whitehead, P.W. Zuidhof
Contents
Contents:
1. Introduction to the Handbook of Behavioural Change and Public Policy
Holger Straßheim and Silke Beck
PART I KNOWING AND CHANGING BEHAVIOUR: THE CO-EVOLVEMENT OF BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE AND BEHAVIOURAL PUBLIC POLICY
2. Nudging before the nudge? Behavioural traffic safety regulation and the rise of behavioural economics
Rüdiger Graf
3. Economic expertise and public policy
Frédéric Lebaron
4. A bibliometric analysis of behavioural studies in economics and public policy journals
Stuti Rawat
5. The concepts of nudge and nudging in behavioural public policy
Pelle Guldborg Hansen
6. Behavioural considerations in public policy: matching policy tools and their targets
Michael Howlett
PART II NUDGING AROUND THE WORLD: PROLIFERATION AND PROFESSIONALIZATION
7. Nudging around the world: a critical geography of the behaviour change agenda
Mark Whitehead, Rhys Jones and Jessica Pykett
8. The application of behavioural insights to policy in Europe
Emanuele Ciriolo, Joana Sousa Louren.o and Sara Rafael Almeida
9. Behaviour experts in government: from newcomers to professionals?
Joram Feitsma and Thomas Schillemans
10. Nudge and the European Union
Alberto Alemanno
11. Nudging citizens’ knowledge in knowledge-based EU: the case of breast cancer screening programmes and participatory rights in choice architectures
Luca Leone and Mariachiara Tallacchini
12. Behaviouralizing Europe: behavioural economics enters EU policy-making
P.W. (Peter-Wim) Zuidhof
PART III BEHAVIOURAL INSIGHTS AND INSTRUMENTS IN POLICY-MAKING
13. The enzymatic effect of behavioural sciences: what about policy-makers’ expectations?
Kathrin Loer
14. The politics of nudge and framing behaviour change in health
Muireann Quigley and Anne-Maree Farrell
15. Nudging to sustainability? Critical reflections on nudging from a theoretically informed sustainability perspective
Basil Bornemann and Paul Burger
16. Encouraging longer working lives: a behavioural perspective
R. Kent Weaver
17. Behavioural economics and development policy
Christian Berndt
18. Steering the behaviour of young people: the EU’s policy approach to promote employment
Jale Tosun and Felix Hörisch
19. The governance of behavioural taxation: moralization and the new modes of tax collection
Sebastian Botzem
PART IV THE GOVERNANCE OF BEHAVIOUR: NORMATIVE IDEALS, CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES
20. Which nudges do people like? A national survey
Cass R. Sunstein
21. Constitutional limits to regulation-by-nudging
Anne van Aaken
22. Nudging: ethical and political dimensions of choice architectures
Mark D. White
23. Macro libertarianism and micro paternalism: governance in an age of nudging
Roger Tyers
24. Behaviour change: extralegal, apolitical, scientistic?
Robert Lepenies and Magdalena Małecka
Index
1. Introduction to the Handbook of Behavioural Change and Public Policy
Holger Straßheim and Silke Beck
PART I KNOWING AND CHANGING BEHAVIOUR: THE CO-EVOLVEMENT OF BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE AND BEHAVIOURAL PUBLIC POLICY
2. Nudging before the nudge? Behavioural traffic safety regulation and the rise of behavioural economics
Rüdiger Graf
3. Economic expertise and public policy
Frédéric Lebaron
4. A bibliometric analysis of behavioural studies in economics and public policy journals
Stuti Rawat
5. The concepts of nudge and nudging in behavioural public policy
Pelle Guldborg Hansen
6. Behavioural considerations in public policy: matching policy tools and their targets
Michael Howlett
PART II NUDGING AROUND THE WORLD: PROLIFERATION AND PROFESSIONALIZATION
7. Nudging around the world: a critical geography of the behaviour change agenda
Mark Whitehead, Rhys Jones and Jessica Pykett
8. The application of behavioural insights to policy in Europe
Emanuele Ciriolo, Joana Sousa Louren.o and Sara Rafael Almeida
9. Behaviour experts in government: from newcomers to professionals?
Joram Feitsma and Thomas Schillemans
10. Nudge and the European Union
Alberto Alemanno
11. Nudging citizens’ knowledge in knowledge-based EU: the case of breast cancer screening programmes and participatory rights in choice architectures
Luca Leone and Mariachiara Tallacchini
12. Behaviouralizing Europe: behavioural economics enters EU policy-making
P.W. (Peter-Wim) Zuidhof
PART III BEHAVIOURAL INSIGHTS AND INSTRUMENTS IN POLICY-MAKING
13. The enzymatic effect of behavioural sciences: what about policy-makers’ expectations?
Kathrin Loer
14. The politics of nudge and framing behaviour change in health
Muireann Quigley and Anne-Maree Farrell
15. Nudging to sustainability? Critical reflections on nudging from a theoretically informed sustainability perspective
Basil Bornemann and Paul Burger
16. Encouraging longer working lives: a behavioural perspective
R. Kent Weaver
17. Behavioural economics and development policy
Christian Berndt
18. Steering the behaviour of young people: the EU’s policy approach to promote employment
Jale Tosun and Felix Hörisch
19. The governance of behavioural taxation: moralization and the new modes of tax collection
Sebastian Botzem
PART IV THE GOVERNANCE OF BEHAVIOUR: NORMATIVE IDEALS, CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES
20. Which nudges do people like? A national survey
Cass R. Sunstein
21. Constitutional limits to regulation-by-nudging
Anne van Aaken
22. Nudging: ethical and political dimensions of choice architectures
Mark D. White
23. Macro libertarianism and micro paternalism: governance in an age of nudging
Roger Tyers
24. Behaviour change: extralegal, apolitical, scientistic?
Robert Lepenies and Magdalena Małecka
Index
