scholarly journals Assessment of a Brazilian public policy intervention to address schistosomiasis in Pernambuco state: the SANAR program, 2011–2014

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Augusto Facchini ◽  
Bruno Pereira Nunes ◽  
Eronildo Felisberto ◽  
José Alexandre Menezes da Silva ◽  
Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Junior ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Intervention

From Networks to Clusters and Back Again

2011 ◽  
pp. 160-183
Author(s):  
Martin Perry
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Cluster Formation ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Policy Intervention ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Trade Promotion ◽  
Effective Cluster

Since the mid-1990s, trade promotion and regional development policy in New Zealand has aimed to promote business growth by encouraging various forms of interfirm cooperation. This chapter reviews the case for public policy intervention in cluster formation and highlights policy insight, drawing on the author’s evaluations of the ways that New Zealand policymakers have sought to encourage business cooperation through networks, alliances, and clusters. The chapter makes a case for cluster intervention but cautions against too much optimism in the contribution that clusters can make to business development. By explaining the particular influences behind successful projects in New Zealand, it is hoped that researchers and policymakers can obtain a better understanding of the conditions needed for effective cluster-based cooperation.

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.

scholarly journals Social influences in cross-border entrepreneurial migration policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daria Kautto
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Policy Intervention ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽  
Psychological Influences ◽  
Migrant Entrepreneurs

Abstract This paper addresses the possibilities for public policy to stimulate the entrepreneurial perceptions of individuals by leveraging micro-level social influences produced by migrant entrepreneurs. As opposed to the conventional stand according to which entrepreneurial ecosystems can be stimulated by financial, regulative, cognitive and normative mechanisms of influence, the present study suggests that socio-psychological influences enacted by exogenous policy intervention can be used as a mechanism for shifting the entrepreneurial perceptions of individuals. Cross-border entrepreneurial migration is proposed as an instrument for enacting these socio-psychological influences and enabling public policy to benefit from the distinctively different entrepreneurial behaviors of migrant entrepreneurs and local individuals in the host country. The study offers substantial policy implications by extending the theoretical reasoning guiding the stimulation of entrepreneurial ecosystems through public policy intervention, providing discussion of opportunity perception in cross-border context, and offering an alternative socio-economic perspective on the role of migrant entrepreneurs in the economic life of host countries.

scholarly journals Complexity as an opportunity and challenge for behavioural public policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-234
Author(s):  
NATHALIE SPENCER
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Policy Intervention ◽  
Behavioural Interventions ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Behavioural Policy ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis paper is a response to Sanders, Snijders and Hallsworth (2018). The challenges and opportunities of behavioural public policy Sanders, Snijders and Hallsworth discuss highlight a conundrum for the field: the impact of behavioural interventions is difficult to measure accurately in complex situations, and yet complexity is inherent in the very areas in most need of impact. Behavioural interventions will be only one tool of many to work towards broader organisational, systems and social change. As a field, we should be looking to other disciplines, inviting them into the fold of discussions on how to achieve these changes. Finally, while the mantra of nudge for good is a useful beacon, intentions are only part of the equation, and a number of questions should be asked when considering a behavioural policy intervention.

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