Brokering behaviour change
The Work of Behavioural Insights Experts in Government
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6326848 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joram Feitsma (Utrecht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-56 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| 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 | 10.1332/030557318x15174915040678 |
| OpenAlex | W2792028282 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 19 |
A behavioural insights community has emerged within a growing number of governments. While this community helps to make policies more behavioural science based, its frontstage role models tend to assume a straightforward, instrumental and apolitical view of the science–policy relationship that seems unrealistic. This article therefore examines what goes on backstage in this community, based on an ethnographic study of behaviour experts in Dutch central government. The article argues that their work consists of a complex palette of practices (that is, choice architecture; analysis; capacity building). Because these practices resemble typical knowledge brokerage work, the article pushes for an envisaging of ‘behaviour experts as knowledge brokers
Behaviour change · Choice architecture · Ethnography · Geography · Government (linguistics · Intervention (counseling · Palette (painting · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Health Policy Implementation Science · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Architecture
Assumptions about behaviour influence the policy preferences of public officials
Combining behavioural and reflective policy tools for the environment
Expert insights into advancing behavioural science in public policy
Behaviour in sustainability transitions
The micropolitics of behavioural interventions
Model of Human Fallibility
Nudging and Muddling through
Bounded interdisciplinarity
Simple nudges that are not so easy
Rationalized incrementalism’. How behavior experts in government negotiate institutional logics
Translating behavioral public policy into practice
The boundaries of Behavioural Insights
The critical factors in producing high quality and policy-relevant research
Telling about policy
Who decides what works? Ethical considerations arising from the Australian Government's use of behavioural insights and Robodebt
Meters maken
Psychodata
The value of healthcare data
Behavioural Insights Teams (BITs) and Policy Change
The behavioural state
Wrong now, right then
Integrating behavioural insights in the policy process
The international appeal of behavioural public policy
Behavioural insights teams in practice
The evolution of behaviourally informed policy-making in the EU
Influence government
A manifesto for applying behavioural science
Observing Government Elites
Why “What Works” Won’t Work
Knowledge brokering
Institutionalising knowledge brokering as a sustainable knowledge translation solution in healthcare
Evidence-based best practice is more political than it looks
Knowledge brokers
Nudge
The art of choosing and the politics of social marketing
Making Governance Networks Effective and Democratic Through Metagovernance
Professionals as Knowledge Brokers
Behavioral Assumptions of Policy Tools
"The Science of "Muddling Through
Evidence translation
The politics of behaviour change
Policy entrepreneurship in UK central government
The Rationality Paradox of Nudge
Human Nature in Politics
Excursions in administrative ethnography
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |