Do Koreans like being nudged? Survey evidence for the contextuality of behavioral public policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Oliver Kasdan
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Behavioral Bias ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Behavioral Biases ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Culture And Development

This study explores the nuances of South Koreans’ approval for nudge policies by replicating a survey conducted in global nudge research, and then extending the analysis and discussion with greater detail about the context. The traditions, culture, and development of Korea have contributed to a distinct behavioral bias profile that must be integrated into approaches for nudge policy design and implementation. This article proposes the qualities of such a profile from the survey results, as well as the prospect that Koreans are more receptive to information nudges that engage analytic reflection. The findings show significantly lower nudge policy approval rates for Koreans in contrast to Americans and other Western countries. This serves to support previous calls for further research about the generalizability of nudge approaches by contributing evidence to the importance of context for identifying and leveraging behavioral biases in the application of policy. The research offers insights into the Korean context that may be used for nudge policies in Korea and other Eastern contexts.

scholarly journals A Content Analysis of Public Policy Design and Implementation in Slovenia: Weighing Strategic and Normative Factors

2021 ◽  
pp. 70-88
Author(s):  
Žiga KOTNIK ◽  
Dalibor STANIMIROVIĆ
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Policy Cycle ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Public ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Strategic Factors ◽  
Normative Factors

"Policy processes are complex systems and require an in-depth and comprehensive analysis. Especially, factors that affect public policy design and implementation, as two important stages of the public policy cycle, have not been sufficiently explored. The aim of the paper is to analyze the relationship between two critical factors that influence the design and implementation of public policies in the case of Slovenia, namely strategic factors and normative factors, and offer a basis for comparison with similar countries. Based on twenty-two structured interviews with prominent public policy experts in Slovenia and content analysis of the responses, the findings reveal that, although strategic factors are identified by the interviewees as the most critical, the role of normative factors is also important and should not be underestimated. For various reasons, in practice, normative factors often turn out to be crucial."

Reconsidering Policy Design: Policies and Publics

1991 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. May
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
The Public ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Political Environments ◽  
Modes Of Thought

ABSTRACTOne of the emerging areas in the public policy literature concerns new modes of thought about the construction and analysis of public policy. This article extends notions about politics within the ‘policy design’ literature by considering the implications of different political environments for policy design and implementation. Two different political environments – policies with and without publics – that form ends of a continuum of policy publics are discussed. A contrast is drawn between these two polar political environments with respect to differing policy design and implementation challenges, as well as with respect to differing opportunities for policy learning.

scholarly journals Public Policy Design and Implementation in Slovenia

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 9-38
Author(s):  
Jernej Mencinger ◽  
Polonca Kovač ◽  
Tina Jukić ◽  
Mirko Vintar
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Individual Country ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Policy Domain ◽  
Post Evaluation ◽  
Coherent Integration ◽  
Ex Post

Public policy design and implementation is a complex process, and so decision makers try to monitor all of the policy lifecycle stages in a particular policy domain. However, the question of coherent integration of various policy activities arises, including agenda-setting, ex-ante evaluation, formulation, decision-making, implementation, ex-post evaluation of individual policies, sector-specific ones, and even horizontal ones. Therefore, it is important to investigate and understand the reasons why an individual country, such as Slovenia, does not exploit all potential aspects of carrying out policy activities in a systematic and coherent manner. This article explores and analyzes Slovenian practice in policy design based on an in-depth empirical study among key public policyholders and decision makers. Furthermore, the authors identify the key success factors that facilitate or inhibit the development and progress of public policies, programs, and projects (PPPP) in Slovenia. The key findings indicate a particular lack of a professional policy unit to monitor the process holistically and the absence of ex-post evaluation. A need for a systemic solution in public policy design is established, which would merge different authorities’ efforts, epistemic communities, and the public in developing a structural multilevel model for good public governance.

scholarly journals Policy labs: the next frontier of policy design and evaluation?

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karol Olejniczak ◽  
Sylwia Borkowska-Waszak ◽  
Anna Domaradzka-Widła ◽  
Yaerin Park
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Programme Evaluation ◽  
Mechanisms Of Change ◽  
Evaluative Inquiry ◽  
Evaluation Practices ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Potential Benefits

The article explores the potential benefits to public policy of combining traditional evaluative inquiry with insights developed dynamically in policy labs. Twenty leading labs from five continents are critically analysed through a literature review as well as policy and programme evaluation practices, assessing the extent to which the purpose, structures and processes used in policy labs address three challenges: (1) establishing the causality and value of public interventions, (2) explaining mechanisms of change, and (3) utilising research findings in public policy. The article concludes that creating synergies between evaluation inquiry and policy labs can improve the design and implementation of public policy and programmes.

scholarly journals Evaluating Conscious Consumption: A Discussion of a Survey Development Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3339
Author(s):  
Madhavi Venkatesan ◽  
Fenner Dreyfuss-Wells ◽  
Anjali Nair ◽  
Astrid Pedersen ◽  
Vishnu Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Coffee Consumption ◽  
Consumer Good ◽  
Survey Instrument ◽  
Survey Development ◽  
Behavioral Bias ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Single Use ◽  
Questions And Responses

This paper is the outcome of a course project for Economics of Sustainability (Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts). Facilitated and under the direction of the instructor, course participants designed a survey instrument where questions and responses were developed to be indicators of behavioral bias related to the environment. The consumer good targeted in the survey was convenience-based coffee consumption, and convenience was defined by the use of single-use disposable coffee cups. The discussion highlights the survey development process including literature review-based expectations specific to each question. The paper concludes with next steps, which involve the administration of the instrument and evaluation of the survey results.

scholarly journals Framing policy designs through contradictory emotions: The case of Czech single mothers

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna P Durnová ◽  
Eva M Hejzlarová
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Policy Goal ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Way

In public policy scholarship on policy design, emotions are still treated as opposed to goals, and their presence is assumed to signal that things have gone wrong. We argue, however, that understanding how and for whom emotions matter is vital to the dynamics of policy designs because emotions are central to the capacity building of policy intermediaries and, with that, to the success of public policies. We examine the case of Czech single mothers in their role as intermediaries in ‘alimony policy’. Our interpretive survey provided single mothers an opportunity to express the way they experience the policy emotionally. The analysis reveals that the policy goal of the child’s well-being is produced at the cost of the mother’s emotional tensions and that policy designs defuse these emotional tensions, implicitly. These contradictory emotions expressed by mothers show us a gateway to problematising policy designs in a novel way, which reconsiders construing policy design as a technical, solution-oriented enterprise to one in which emotional tensions intervene in policy design and are essential for succeeding.

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