Advancing behavioural public policies
In Pursuit of a More Comprehensive Concept
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6326641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Ewert (0000-0002-1837-3898, Fulda University of Applied Sciences), Kathrin Loer (0000-0002-6858-5813, FernUniversität in Hagen) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-47 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442 |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/030557320x15907721287475 |
| OpenAlex | W3040860480 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 52 |
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 peer survey we see merit in behavioural insights from disciplines such as anthropology, geography and sociology as well as the application of qualitative methods. Our findings identify the need to advance behavioural public policy conceptually and methodologically. This article challenges our current understanding of behavioural policymaking by integrating ‘foreign’ views and approaches that do not (yet) belong to the core discipline. We argue that behavioural public policy should not be a synonym for a limited number of policy approaches (for example, nudges) based on specific research methods (for example, randomised control trials) to reach individual behaviour change. Instead, our findings suggest a redefinition of the scientific footing of behavioural public policy
Behavioural economics · Behavioural sciences · Dilemma · Economics · Epistemology · Management science · Nudge theory · Political science · Positive economics · Public policy · Rationality · Social science · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Health policy under the microscope
Combining behavioural and reflective policy tools for the environment
Políticas conductuales
A model for choice infrastructure
Policy success
Cognitive Biases in Street‐Level Resolutions
Behavioral brittleness
Beyond nudge
But does the nudge fit? Institutional structure and behavioural insights
Regulating for integration by behavioral design
Economic Action and Social Structure
Evidence-based policymaking is not like evidence-based medicine, so how far should you go to bridge the divide between evidence and policy?
A scoping review of scoping reviews
Scoping studies
Guidance for conducting systematic scoping reviews
International Journal of Social Research Methodology
Environmental Politics
Theories of practice and public health
Behavioural effects of directive cues on front-of-package nutrition information
Behavioural science and policy
Bounded interdisciplinarity
What are we forgetting
Science Makes the World Go Round. Successful Scientific Knowledge Transfer for the Environment
Behavioural economics vs social practice theory
An introduction to the special issue on “the behavioural turn in public policy
Is There a Right Way to Nudge? The Practice and Ethics of Choice Architecture
The boundaries of Behavioural Insights
Multimodal strategies of emotional governance
A Nudge in the Right Direction? Towards a Sociological Engagement with Libertarian Paternalism
Household consumption and environmental change
Re-engaging with rationality in economic geography
Attitudes to conservation and water consumption
Output-orientated Data Envelopment Analysis for measuring recycling efficiency
Behavioural economics and its implications for transport
Nudge
Embracing complexity
Public Administration Review
Public health policy and the behavioural turn
Influencing behaviour
Behavioural insights, nudge and the choice environment in obesity policy
Nudge or nuzzle? Improving decisions about active citizenship
Behavioral Public Administration
Nudge Nudge, Think Think
On credit and blame
Applying Behavioral Insights in Policy Analysis
Beyond nudge
The politics of behaviour change
Behavioural insights teams in practice
Why a nudge is not enough
European Journal of Political Research
Moving beyond the obsession with nudging individual behaviour
On the Supposed Evidence for Libertarian Paternalism
Scoping studies
Beyond the ABC
Habit and the Politics of Social Change
Making the Blue Zones
The sociological and attitudinal bases of environmentally-related beliefs and behaviour in Britain
Critical Social Policy
Smoke-free air policy
Understanding health through social practices
Why behavioural health promotion endures despite its failure to reduce health inequities
From Nudging to Budging
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |