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Policy and Politics: Beyond nudge: advancing the state-of-the-art of behavioural public policy and administration

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November 04, 2020

Benjamin Ewert, Kathrin Loer and Eva Thomann This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. [...]

POLICY AND POLITICS: Why Nudge Sometimes Fails

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September 02, 2020

Tom Entwistle This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. It is curated by Sarah [...]

Behavioural insights teams in practice: nudge missions and methods on trial

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May 22, 2020

Sarah Ball and Brian Head They go by a variety of names; nudge units, behavioural insights teams and behavioural economics teams. [...]

Nudges, solidaristic protectionism, and the re-appropriation of libertarianism

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March 22, 2020

Linsey McGoey Jana Bacevic’s compelling commentary for Discover Society on the politics of nudging identifies a number of key shifts in [...]

Policy & Politics: The Rise of the Nudge Expert

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April 03, 2018

Joram Feitsma This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. It is curated by Sarah [...]

Policy Briefing: The Nudge Business

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December 01, 2015

Geof Rayner “Engineering shifts in social norms is a far from trivial task." (Mind, Society and Behavior: World Development Report 2015. [...]

Focus: Budge up Nudge – Policy fashions and the demise of an intervention

By discoversociety
September 02, 2014

Alan Warde (University of Manchester) There are few more important political issues of the 21st century than the making of arrangements [...]

DID BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE COST LIVES? EVIDENCE-BASED POLICYMAKING DURING THE PANDEMIC

By discoversociety
November 04, 2020

Martyn Hammersley During the pandemic, the UK Government’s policymaking has approximated more closely to the evidence-based model than in normal times. [...]