scholarly journals Nudge plus: incorporating reflection into behavioral public policy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Sanchayan Banerjee ◽  
Peter John
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Dual Processes ◽  
Dual Systems ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Causal Mechanisms ◽  
Classic Literature

Abstract Nudge plus is a modification of the toolkit of behavioral public policy. It incorporates an element of reflection – the plus – into the delivery of a nudge, either blended in or made proximate. Nudge plus builds on recent work combining heuristics and deliberation. It may be used to design prosocial interventions that help preserve the autonomy of the agent. The argument turns on seminal work on dual systems, which presents a subtler relationship between fast and slow thinking than commonly assumed in the classic literature in behavioral public policy. We review classic and recent work on dual processes to show that a hybrid is more plausible than the default-interventionist or parallel-competitive framework. We define nudge plus, set out what reflection could entail, provide examples, outline causal mechanisms, and draw testable implications.

The Mediation of Bureaucratic-Professional Influence: Decentralization in Dutch Housing Policy

1986 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
The State ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Bureaucratic Autonomy ◽  
Dutch Housing ◽  
Professional Power

The influence of state bureaucrats and professionals on public policy is empirically and theoretically problematic. Recent work concerning the ‘dual politics thesis' has suggested that bureaucratic autonomy will flourish particularly at the regional level of the state. Evidence about decentralization in the Dutch housing system is reviewed which generally supports this thesis. However, it is argued that regional bureaucratic and professional power in housing policy, and the specific institutional arrangements for decentralization, must also be explained in terms of the distinctive nature of Dutch pillarized society and politics.

scholarly journals Looking for the party? The effects of partisan change on issue attention in UK Acts of Parliament

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun Bevan ◽  
Zachary Greene
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Partisan Change ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Issue Attention ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Stability

Political parties matter for government outcomes. Despite this general finding for political science research, recent work on public policy and agenda-setting has found just the opposite; parties generally do not matter when it comes to explaining government attention. While the common explanation for this finding is that issue attention is different than the location of policy, this explanation has never truly been tested. Through the use of data on nearly 65 years of UK Acts of Parliament, this paper presents a detailed investigation of the effect parties have on issue attention in UK Acts of Parliament. It demonstrates that elections alone do not explain changes in the distribution of policies across issues. Instead, the parties’ organizations, responses to economic conditions, and size of the parliamentary delegation influence the stability of issue attention following a party transition.

SEARCHING FOR WORTMAN'S RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONES: A CASE STUDY OF THREE RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 233-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIRK C. HERIOT ◽  
NOEL D. CAMPBELL
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Case Method ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Rural Economic Development ◽  
Point Of Departure

This study uses Wortman's Rural Economic Development Zones (Wortman, 1990a) and more recent work by Lyons (2002) as a point of departure to demonstrate entrepreneurship development suited to rural locations. We describe the current literature and rural electric cooperatives. Using a case method research design (Yin, 1994), we demonstrate the efforts of three modern rural electric cooperatives in the area of entrepreneurial development. The study concludes with a discussion of the implications to public policy makers, electric cooperative executives and researchers in the field of entrepreneurship.

“Studying Public Policy”: Historical Institutionalism and the Comparative Method

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 743-761
Author(s):  
Gerard W. Boychuk
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Historical Institutionalism ◽  
Outcome Studies ◽  
Suggested Approach ◽  
Causal Mechanisms ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Explicit Comparison

AbstractThis article argues that Simeon's insistence on the value of explicit comparison within individual studies of public policy needs to remain central even in historical institutionalist approaches which “take time seriously” and focus on causal mechanisms—a methodological injunction sometimes seen to augur in favour of single-case and single-outcome studies. However, if Simeon's suggested approach is to reflect the major advances that have occurred since he wrote, it will require more fully and more explicitly combining the power of the comparative method with the powerful insights generated by a logic of intertemporal causal mechanisms unfolding over time.

scholarly journals The infrastructures of mobile media: Towards a future reseach agenda

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather A. Horst
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Global South ◽  
The Political ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
The Third

In this contribution to the inaugural issue of Mobile Media & Communication, I draw upon recent work on mobiles in the global south to illustrate how the ‘third wave’ of mobile communication research requires a renewed focus upon the political and economic dimensions of infrastructures and the subversion of the system by individuals, communities and organizations. Inspired by Susan Leigh Star’s seminal work on the importance of studying infrastructures, I suggest that mobile media scholarship should look to the changes in the technical, social, political, regulatory and other forms of infrastructures that the first two waves’ focus upon novel uses and consumers often rendered invisible.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-20
Author(s):  
Paul Shaffer ◽  
Ravi Kanbur ◽  
Richard Sandbrook
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Poverty Dynamics ◽  
Chronic Poverty ◽  
Causal Mechanisms ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Level Of Analysis

This chapter provides context for the volume chapters. It addresses definitional and conceptual matters concerning growth, poverty, and the time frame and level of analysis. The distinction between ‘failed inclusion’ and ‘active exclusion’ is then presented to distinguish some of the underlying causal mechanisms. Next, the centrality of political economy and politics to the analysis of immiserizing growth (IG) is explained on the grounds that many of the causal mechanisms leading to IG are public policy measures or stand to be affected by them. The relationship of IG to poverty dynamics is then explored to determine if immiserizing growth is characterized by distinct types of transitory or chronic poverty.

scholarly journals Advancing Evaluation Practice With Serious Games

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karol Olejniczak ◽  
Kathryn E. Newcomer ◽  
Sebastiaan A. Meijer
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Evaluation Practice ◽  
Causal Mechanisms ◽  
Crash Testing

Evaluation professionals need to be nimble and innovative in their approaches in order to be relevant and provide useful evidence to decision-makers, stakeholders, and society in the crowded public policy landscape. In this article, we offer serious games as a method that can be employed by evaluators to address three persisting challenges in current evaluation practice: inclusion of stakeholders, understanding of causal mechanisms, and utilization of evaluation findings. We provide a framework that distinguishes among games along two crucial aspects of evaluation inquiry - its function and the nature of the evaluand. We offer examples of successfully implemented games in each set of the four arenas we delineate: teaching knowables, testing retention, crash-testing mechanisms, and exploring systems. We explain how games can be employed to promote learning about and among stakeholders, and to collect valuable intelligence about the operations of programs and policies.

scholarly journals Explaining Local Authority Choices on Public Hospital Provision in the 1930s: A Public Policy Hypothesis

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Neville
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Public Hospital ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Previous Experience ◽  
Core Beliefs ◽  
Policy Entrepreneur ◽  
Hospital Services ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
South West

AbstractThis article summarises the findings of recent work on local authority public hospital services in England and Wales in the inter-war years and identifies the lack of a robust hypothesis to explain the variations found, particularly one that would explain the actions of county councils as well as county boroughs. Using public policy techniques on a group of local authorities in the far South West it proposes that variations can be explained by an understanding of the deep core beliefs of councillors, their previous experience of ‘commissioner’ and ‘provider’ roles, and the availability or otherwise of a dedicated policy entrepreneur to promote change.

NUDGE VERSUS BOOST: A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A NORMATIVE DIFFERENCE

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (02) ◽  
pp. 195-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Sims ◽  
Thomas Michael Müller
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Intervention ◽  
Causal Mechanisms ◽  
Normative Issues ◽  
The Right

Abstract:Behavioural public policy (BPP) has come under fire by critics who claim that it is illiberal. Some authors recently suggest that there is a type of BPP – boosting – that is not as vulnerable to this normative critique. Our paper challenges this claim: there's no non-circular way to draw the distinction between nudge and boost that would make the normative difference required to infer the permissibility of a policy intervention from its type-membership. We consider two strategies: paradigmatic examples and causal mechanisms. We conclude by sketching some suggestions about the right way to approach the normative issues.

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