Benjamin Ewert
Biographic Data
| ID | 1616682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Ewert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Ewert |
| SIGNATURE | EWERT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fulda University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1837-3898 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
New Public Governance, neo-corporatism, and health policy: Status quo, constraints, and future directions
Rethinking behaviour change interventions in policymaking
Covid-19 as a Catalyst for Policy Change: The Role of Trigger Points and Spillover Effects
This article understands COVID-19 as an eruptive event with severe effects on many policy fields beyond (public) health. Based on this assumption, we consider the pandemic as a catalyst for policy change across policy fields. For that reason, we suggest a new approach for conceptualising eruptive events as triggers that provoke far-reaching change and spillover effects in fields of policymaking. These are characterised by a complex problem struct…
Patterns of European bioeconomy policy. Insights from a cross-case study of three policy areas
The concept of the bioeconomy has risen to great popularity with governments around the world as a new paradigm for a sustainable economy. However, it is still highly contentious what the bioeconomy actually is or should be, which results in a certain vagueness of bioeconomy policy strategies. European bioeconomy policy is a prime example of this. Despite two dedicated bioeconomy strategies, it appears to be highly fragmented and heterogeneous wh…
Citizenship as a Form of Anticipatory Obedience? Implications of Preventive Health Policy in Germany
This article scrutinizes citizenship implications in the field of preventive health policy in Germany. While at first glance prevention policies seem fairly uncontroversial, they have intricate links concerning the impact on preventive policies to social citizenship and to the notion of the “good” citizen. I argue that prevention is a future‐oriented permanent task that requires constant alertness and the commitment of responsible citizens to bei…
Beyond nudge: Advancing the State-of-the-Art of Behavioural Public Policy and Administration
This Special Issue features theoretical, methodological, and empirical advancements of the state-of-the-art in behavioural public policy and administration. In this introduction, we develop a behaviourally-informed, integrated conceptual model of the policy process that embeds individual attitudes and behaviour into context at the meso and macro level. We argue that behavioural approaches can be situated within a broader tradition of methodologic…
Advancing behavioural public policies: In Pursuit of a More Comprehensive Concept
Behavioural public policy is predominantly based on insights from behavioural economics and psychology in order to ‘nudge’ people to act in line with specific aims and to overcome the dilemma of behaviour that contradicts economic rationality. In contrast, we define behavioural public policy as a multi-disciplinary and multi-methodological concept that utilises insights from the whole range of behavioural research. Based on a scoping review and p…
Moving beyond the obsession with nudging individual behaviour: Towards a broader understanding of Behavioural Public Policy
Behavioural interventions are much more than ‘just another policy tool’. Indeed, the use of behavioural science has the potential to lead to a wide-ranging reassessment of policymaking and public administration. However, Behavioural Public Policy remains a policy paradigm ‘under construction’. This paper seeks to contribute to this development process by investigating the conceptual features of advanced Behavioural Public Policy that go beyond th…
From entitled citizens to nudged consumers? Re-examining the hallmarks of health citizenship in the light of the behavioural turn
Behavioural Public Policy seeks to produce behavioural change by altering people’s choice architecture. As exemplified in the field of health, this behavioural turn in public policy comes at a cost since policymakers (‘nudgers’) tend to disregard the historical policy legacies and policy rationales that have shaped the notion of health citizenship. Behavioural interventions challenge the traditional hallmarks of health citizenship, such as trust …
Focusing on quality care rather than ‘checking boxes’: How to exit the labyrinth of multiple accountabilities in hybrid healthcare arrangements
Accountability relations in modern‐day welfare states have multiplied due to the complex interaction of institutional and sectoral logics. Against this backdrop, this article seeks to unravel complexities which surround accountability relations in hybrid healthcare arrangements. For this purpose, a framework of multi‐faceted identity is suggested in order to theoretically grasp multiple accountabilities of healthcare professionals. Accordingly, h…
Promoting health in schools: Theoretical reflections on the settings approach versus nudge tactics
Person-centred palliative care in five European countries: The experiences of patients and family carers
Introduction: Integrated palliative care (IPC) should be responsive to patients’ palliative care needs. However, knowledge about the best way to provide IPC is scarce. Evidence is mainly based on perspectives of professionals and carers. Therefore, the InSup-C project conducted a qualitative study on the experiences of patients’ and their carers’ with care provision in several IPC initiatives in five European countries. The aim of this study was …
Social Innovation for Social Cohesion
Social Innovation for Social Cohesion
In light of the major challenges facing societies and political and social systems in Europe, there is an increasing focus on micro-scale social innovations. But what can such innovations contribute? How can they best be understood? And how can a positive interaction between these forms of social innovation and public policies for reform be ensured? The EU-funded international research project, 'Welfare Innovations at the Local Level in Favour of…
Change agents and service providers? User organizations in the German healthcare system
In emerging healthcare markets, user organizations, conceived as patient organizations, self‐help groups, and customer services, now face the challenge of acting as both change agents and service providers. On the one hand, they are expected to push for user‐oriented healthcare reforms; on the other hand, they are urged to facilitate users’ healthcare consumption by supporting them in their decisions regarding healthcare providers and treatments,…
Welfare user roles in a conservative welfare state. Are Germans citizens, consumers or co-producers
Many welfare states have embraced choice and market mechanisms since the 1990s. With respect to welfare users, it has been argued that this led to a change from citizens to consumers. This paper challenges this observation and discusses changes of welfare user roles in the German welfare state. The main argument rests on the assumption that user roles are much more complex and include claimants and co-producers in addition to citizens and consume…
Beyond the patient vs. consumer dichotomy. Recognizing users’ multiple identities in the design of integrated care schemes
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Blueprints for the Future of Welfare Provision? Shared Features of Service Innovations across Europe
This article discusses localised forms of social innovation in social services in relation to social policy and welfare issues. It draws upon research findings from the EU project ‘Welfare Innovations at the local Level in favour of Cohesion’ (WILCO), which takes in social innovations in twenty European cities. First, we argue why there is currently a significant gap between the debate on social innovation and the debate on social welfare reforms…
Vom Patienten Zum Konsumenten?: Nutzerbeteiligung und Nutzeridentitäten Im Gesundheitswesen
Vom Patienten zum Konsumenten?: Nutzerbeteiligung und Nutzeridentitäten im Gesundheitswesen
An Ambiguous Concept: On the Meanings of Co-production for Health Care Users and User Organizations
Neither on the level of interactions between organizations nor on the level of servicing users, co-production has a fixed meaning. It is argued that there are different meanings that unfold once one looks at the impact of narratives such as consumerism, managerialism, or participatory governance. Altogether with the traditions of state-welfare, they simultaneously influence the modes and meanings of co-production in personal services. Taking up t…
Hybride Organisationen im Bereich sozialer Dienste. Ein Konzept, sein Hintergrund und seine Implikationen
Welche Bedeutung hat das Wort hybrid? Zunächst einmal zielt die Bezeichnung ›hybrid‹ auf eine simple Feststellung ab: Elemente, die ursprünglich mit einer je unterschiedlichen Sphäre assoziiert wurden, verbinden sich miteinander, und zwar innerhalb einer Organisationsform. Verschiedene Autoren haben in den letzten Jahren den Begriff hybrid in den sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskurs, speziell in die Diskussion über Organisationen im Dritten Sektor un…
Beyond nudge: Advancing the State-of-the-Art of Behavioural Public Policy and Administration
This Special Issue features theoretical, methodological, and empirical advancements of the state-of-the-art in behavioural public policy and administration. In this introduction, we develop a behaviourally-informed, integrated conceptual model of the policy process that embeds individual attitudes and behaviour into context at the meso and macro level. We argue that behavioural approaches can be situated within a broader tradition of methodologic…
An Ambiguous Concept: On the Meanings of Co-production for Health Care Users and User Organizations
Neither on the level of interactions between organizations nor on the level of servicing users, co-production has a fixed meaning. It is argued that there are different meanings that unfold once one looks at the impact of narratives such as consumerism, managerialism, or participatory governance. Altogether with the traditions of state-welfare, they simultaneously influence the modes and meanings of co-production in personal services. Taking up t…
Moving beyond the obsession with nudging individual behaviour: Towards a broader understanding of Behavioural Public Policy
Behavioural interventions are much more than ‘just another policy tool’. Indeed, the use of behavioural science has the potential to lead to a wide-ranging reassessment of policymaking and public administration. However, Behavioural Public Policy remains a policy paradigm ‘under construction’. This paper seeks to contribute to this development process by investigating the conceptual features of advanced Behavioural Public Policy that go beyond th…
Advancing behavioural public policies: In Pursuit of a More Comprehensive Concept
Behavioural public policy is predominantly based on insights from behavioural economics and psychology in order to ‘nudge’ people to act in line with specific aims and to overcome the dilemma of behaviour that contradicts economic rationality. In contrast, we define behavioural public policy as a multi-disciplinary and multi-methodological concept that utilises insights from the whole range of behavioural research. Based on a scoping review and p…
Focusing on quality care rather than ‘checking boxes’: How to exit the labyrinth of multiple accountabilities in hybrid healthcare arrangements
Accountability relations in modern‐day welfare states have multiplied due to the complex interaction of institutional and sectoral logics. Against this backdrop, this article seeks to unravel complexities which surround accountability relations in hybrid healthcare arrangements. For this purpose, a framework of multi‐faceted identity is suggested in order to theoretically grasp multiple accountabilities of healthcare professionals. Accordingly, h…
Welfare user roles in a conservative welfare state. Are Germans citizens, consumers or co-producers
Many welfare states have embraced choice and market mechanisms since the 1990s. With respect to welfare users, it has been argued that this led to a change from citizens to consumers. This paper challenges this observation and discusses changes of welfare user roles in the German welfare state. The main argument rests on the assumption that user roles are much more complex and include claimants and co-producers in addition to citizens and consume…
Blueprints for the Future of Welfare Provision? Shared Features of Service Innovations across Europe
This article discusses localised forms of social innovation in social services in relation to social policy and welfare issues. It draws upon research findings from the EU project ‘Welfare Innovations at the local Level in favour of Cohesion’ (WILCO), which takes in social innovations in twenty European cities. First, we argue why there is currently a significant gap between the debate on social innovation and the debate on social welfare reforms…
From entitled citizens to nudged consumers? Re-examining the hallmarks of health citizenship in the light of the behavioural turn
Behavioural Public Policy seeks to produce behavioural change by altering people’s choice architecture. As exemplified in the field of health, this behavioural turn in public policy comes at a cost since policymakers (‘nudgers’) tend to disregard the historical policy legacies and policy rationales that have shaped the notion of health citizenship. Behavioural interventions challenge the traditional hallmarks of health citizenship, such as trust …
Covid-19 as a Catalyst for Policy Change: The Role of Trigger Points and Spillover Effects
This article understands COVID-19 as an eruptive event with severe effects on many policy fields beyond (public) health. Based on this assumption, we consider the pandemic as a catalyst for policy change across policy fields. For that reason, we suggest a new approach for conceptualising eruptive events as triggers that provoke far-reaching change and spillover effects in fields of policymaking. These are characterised by a complex problem struct…
Patterns of European bioeconomy policy. Insights from a cross-case study of three policy areas
The concept of the bioeconomy has risen to great popularity with governments around the world as a new paradigm for a sustainable economy. However, it is still highly contentious what the bioeconomy actually is or should be, which results in a certain vagueness of bioeconomy policy strategies. European bioeconomy policy is a prime example of this. Despite two dedicated bioeconomy strategies, it appears to be highly fragmented and heterogeneous wh…
Change agents and service providers? User organizations in the German healthcare system
In emerging healthcare markets, user organizations, conceived as patient organizations, self‐help groups, and customer services, now face the challenge of acting as both change agents and service providers. On the one hand, they are expected to push for user‐oriented healthcare reforms; on the other hand, they are urged to facilitate users’ healthcare consumption by supporting them in their decisions regarding healthcare providers and treatments,…
Rethinking behaviour change interventions in policymaking
Promoting health in schools: Theoretical reflections on the settings approach versus nudge tactics
Person-centred palliative care in five European countries: The experiences of patients and family carers
Introduction: Integrated palliative care (IPC) should be responsive to patients’ palliative care needs. However, knowledge about the best way to provide IPC is scarce. Evidence is mainly based on perspectives of professionals and carers. Therefore, the InSup-C project conducted a qualitative study on the experiences of patients’ and their carers’ with care provision in several IPC initiatives in five European countries. The aim of this study was …
Hybride Organisationen im Bereich sozialer Dienste. Ein Konzept, sein Hintergrund und seine Implikationen
Welche Bedeutung hat das Wort hybrid? Zunächst einmal zielt die Bezeichnung ›hybrid‹ auf eine simple Feststellung ab: Elemente, die ursprünglich mit einer je unterschiedlichen Sphäre assoziiert wurden, verbinden sich miteinander, und zwar innerhalb einer Organisationsform. Verschiedene Autoren haben in den letzten Jahren den Begriff hybrid in den sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskurs, speziell in die Diskussion über Organisationen im Dritten Sektor un…
Vom Patienten Zum Konsumenten?: Nutzerbeteiligung und Nutzeridentitäten Im Gesundheitswesen
Vom Patienten zum Konsumenten?: Nutzerbeteiligung und Nutzeridentitäten im Gesundheitswesen
An Ambiguous Concept: On the Meanings of Co-production for Health Care Users and User Organizations
Neither on the level of interactions between organizations nor on the level of servicing users, co-production has a fixed meaning. It is argued that there are different meanings that unfold once one looks at the impact of narratives such as consumerism, managerialism, or participatory governance. Altogether with the traditions of state-welfare, they simultaneously influence the modes and meanings of co-production in personal services. Taking up t…
Beyond the patient vs. consumer dichotomy. Recognizing users’ multiple identities in the design of integrated care schemes
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Blueprints for the Future of Welfare Provision? Shared Features of Service Innovations across Europe
This article discusses localised forms of social innovation in social services in relation to social policy and welfare issues. It draws upon research findings from the EU project ‘Welfare Innovations at the local Level in favour of Cohesion’ (WILCO), which takes in social innovations in twenty European cities. First, we argue why there is currently a significant gap between the debate on social innovation and the debate on social welfare reforms…
Social Innovation for Social Cohesion
Social Innovation for Social Cohesion
In light of the major challenges facing societies and political and social systems in Europe, there is an increasing focus on micro-scale social innovations. But what can such innovations contribute? How can they best be understood? And how can a positive interaction between these forms of social innovation and public policies for reform be ensured? The EU-funded international research project, 'Welfare Innovations at the Local Level in Favour of…
Change agents and service providers? User organizations in the German healthcare system
In emerging healthcare markets, user organizations, conceived as patient organizations, self‐help groups, and customer services, now face the challenge of acting as both change agents and service providers. On the one hand, they are expected to push for user‐oriented healthcare reforms; on the other hand, they are urged to facilitate users’ healthcare consumption by supporting them in their decisions regarding healthcare providers and treatments,…
Welfare user roles in a conservative welfare state. Are Germans citizens, consumers or co-producers
Many welfare states have embraced choice and market mechanisms since the 1990s. With respect to welfare users, it has been argued that this led to a change from citizens to consumers. This paper challenges this observation and discusses changes of welfare user roles in the German welfare state. The main argument rests on the assumption that user roles are much more complex and include claimants and co-producers in addition to citizens and consume…
Person-centred palliative care in five European countries: The experiences of patients and family carers
Introduction: Integrated palliative care (IPC) should be responsive to patients’ palliative care needs. However, knowledge about the best way to provide IPC is scarce. Evidence is mainly based on perspectives of professionals and carers. Therefore, the InSup-C project conducted a qualitative study on the experiences of patients’ and their carers’ with care provision in several IPC initiatives in five European countries. The aim of this study was …
Promoting health in schools: Theoretical reflections on the settings approach versus nudge tactics
Focusing on quality care rather than ‘checking boxes’: How to exit the labyrinth of multiple accountabilities in hybrid healthcare arrangements
Accountability relations in modern‐day welfare states have multiplied due to the complex interaction of institutional and sectoral logics. Against this backdrop, this article seeks to unravel complexities which surround accountability relations in hybrid healthcare arrangements. For this purpose, a framework of multi‐faceted identity is suggested in order to theoretically grasp multiple accountabilities of healthcare professionals. Accordingly, h…
From entitled citizens to nudged consumers? Re-examining the hallmarks of health citizenship in the light of the behavioural turn
Behavioural Public Policy seeks to produce behavioural change by altering people’s choice architecture. As exemplified in the field of health, this behavioural turn in public policy comes at a cost since policymakers (‘nudgers’) tend to disregard the historical policy legacies and policy rationales that have shaped the notion of health citizenship. Behavioural interventions challenge the traditional hallmarks of health citizenship, such as trust …
Moving beyond the obsession with nudging individual behaviour: Towards a broader understanding of Behavioural Public Policy
Behavioural interventions are much more than ‘just another policy tool’. Indeed, the use of behavioural science has the potential to lead to a wide-ranging reassessment of policymaking and public administration. However, Behavioural Public Policy remains a policy paradigm ‘under construction’. This paper seeks to contribute to this development process by investigating the conceptual features of advanced Behavioural Public Policy that go beyond th…
Citizenship as a Form of Anticipatory Obedience? Implications of Preventive Health Policy in Germany
This article scrutinizes citizenship implications in the field of preventive health policy in Germany. While at first glance prevention policies seem fairly uncontroversial, they have intricate links concerning the impact on preventive policies to social citizenship and to the notion of the “good” citizen. I argue that prevention is a future‐oriented permanent task that requires constant alertness and the commitment of responsible citizens to bei…
Beyond nudge: Advancing the State-of-the-Art of Behavioural Public Policy and Administration
This Special Issue features theoretical, methodological, and empirical advancements of the state-of-the-art in behavioural public policy and administration. In this introduction, we develop a behaviourally-informed, integrated conceptual model of the policy process that embeds individual attitudes and behaviour into context at the meso and macro level. We argue that behavioural approaches can be situated within a broader tradition of methodologic…
Advancing behavioural public policies: In Pursuit of a More Comprehensive Concept
Behavioural public policy is predominantly based on insights from behavioural economics and psychology in order to ‘nudge’ people to act in line with specific aims and to overcome the dilemma of behaviour that contradicts economic rationality. In contrast, we define behavioural public policy as a multi-disciplinary and multi-methodological concept that utilises insights from the whole range of behavioural research. Based on a scoping review and p…
Patterns of European bioeconomy policy. Insights from a cross-case study of three policy areas
The concept of the bioeconomy has risen to great popularity with governments around the world as a new paradigm for a sustainable economy. However, it is still highly contentious what the bioeconomy actually is or should be, which results in a certain vagueness of bioeconomy policy strategies. European bioeconomy policy is a prime example of this. Despite two dedicated bioeconomy strategies, it appears to be highly fragmented and heterogeneous wh…
Covid-19 as a Catalyst for Policy Change: The Role of Trigger Points and Spillover Effects
This article understands COVID-19 as an eruptive event with severe effects on many policy fields beyond (public) health. Based on this assumption, we consider the pandemic as a catalyst for policy change across policy fields. For that reason, we suggest a new approach for conceptualising eruptive events as triggers that provoke far-reaching change and spillover effects in fields of policymaking. These are characterised by a complex problem struct…
Rethinking behaviour change interventions in policymaking
New Public Governance, neo-corporatism, and health policy: Status quo, constraints, and future directions
Political science (18 works) · Economics (10 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Community Health and Development (5 works)