An introduction to the special issue on “the behavioural turn in public policy: new evidence from experiments”

Bogliacino, Francesco; Codagnone, Cristiano; Veltri, Giuseppe

doi:10.1007/s40888-016-0044-0

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“…Assuming individuals must take responsibility to protect themselves and increase their own resilience, there are likely to be significant downstream consequences with respect to the privatization of DRR (Kuhlicke, 2019). This shift can be interpreted as mirroring the political agenda of individualizing responsibilities, a turn that can also be observed in other domains of public policy, such as health care, or labor market policy (Bogliacino, Codagnone, & Veltri, 2016).…”

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Swimming alone? Why linking flood risk perception and behavior requires more than “it's the individual, stupid”

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A common assertion in discussions of flooding is that risk perception is critical and is linked to risk‐mitigating behavior. Furthermore, many assert that the adverse effects of floods could be reduced by changes in risk communication, thereby influencing risk perception to foster mitigating behavior. We argue that these assertions are based on quite questionable underlying assumptions: That stakeholders are generally aware of flood risk, that they have the capacity to engage in disaster risk reduction, and that their actions can be effective. The belief in and policies influenced by these three questionable assertions support, in turn, policies that shift responsibility for flood risk reduction onto individuals and homeowners, without regard for social and spatial justice issues. In contrast, we argue that context matters to understanding the complexity of the relation between flood risk perception and behavior, local power relations, and other constraints and opportunities that affect stakeholders. While the academic community has long played a pivotal role in supporting practical flood risk management, future research should take a more critical perspective on the underlying assumptions and focus on improving coordination across theories, methods, and variables, fostering comparative studies across disciplines, contexts, and scales. This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Planning Water Human Water > Water as Imagined and Represented Science of Water > Water Extremes

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Section: Last Decades: Increasing Engagement Fragmenting Knowledgementioning

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Swimming alone? Why linking flood risk perception and behavior requires more than “it's the individual, stupid”

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“…1. Introduction 1.1 Behavioural sciences and policy Behavioural sciences study human behaviour in an attempt to understand the various factors that affect it (Berelson, 1995), and encompass psychology, behavioural economics, neuroscience and anthropology, among others. Although behavioural sciences have produced extensive empirical findings regarding human behaviour for decades, their explicit application to public policy emerged in the early 2000s (Madrian and Shea, 2001).…”

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Two converging paths: behavioural sciences and social marketing for better policies

Dessart

Bavel

2017

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Purpose-This commentary argues that social marketing and the application of behavioural sciences to policy constitute two converging paths towards better policies. It highlights points of convergence and divergence between both disciplines and the potential benefits of further embedding social marketing principles and methods within the recent trend of applying behavioural sciences to policy. Design/methodology/approach-The commentary relies on a review of the behavioural sciences and social marketing literatures and on an analysis of institutional reports reviewing cases of behaviourally informed policies. Findings-Behavioural sciences are increasingly informing policies to promote societal well-being. Social marketing has seldom been explicitly considered as being part of this phenomenon, although it is de facto. Both disciplines share similar end-goals, inform similar policy applications and are rooted in behavioural analysis. They diverge in their theoretical frameworks, their relative emphasis on behaviour change and the span of interventions they generate. Several benefits of embedding social marketing principles and methods within the current way of applying behavioural sciences to policy are identified. Practical implications-Scholars applying behavioural sciences to policy are encouraged, when appropriate, to use the insights and methods from social marketing. Social marketing can engage in a dialogue with behavioural sciences to explore how to pilot the convergence of both approaches in practice. Originality/value-The novelty of this contribution lies in providing the first comparison of the application of behavioural sciences to policy with social marketing, and in using the policy-making cycle framework to map the contributions and complementarities of both disciplines.

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“…Het toepassen van gedragsinzichten in beleidsonderzoek omspant een ruim assortiment aan theoretische inzichten, politiek-filosofische stromingen, nudge-technieken, experimentele methoden, praktijkprojecten, instellingen en instrumenten. In het voorbije decennium ontstonden er verschillende benamingen en vertakkingen die alle (een stuk van) hetzelfde beleidsfenomeen trachten te vatten: Nudge Theory (Thaler & Sunstein, 2008;Kosters et al, 2015), Behavioural Turn (Bogliacino et al, 2016), Behavioural Public Administration (Grimmelikhuijsen et al, 2017), Behavoiural Government (Whitehead et al, 2018), Behavioural State (Feitsma, 2019), Behavioural Insights Movement (Feitsma, 2018;, Behavioural Public Policy (Oliver, 2019;John, 2018) en zelfs Advanced Behavioural Public Policy (Ewert, 2020) -om enkel de belangrijkste pogingen tot synthese bij naam te noemen. We doen een beroep op dit assortiment om de verdere verbreding van nudging in de richting van BPP beter te begrijpen.…”

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Raymaekers¹,

Brans²

2020

Beleidsonderzoek Online

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An introduction to the special issue on “the behavioural turn in public policy: new evidence from experiments”

Cited by 17 publications

References 42 publications

Swimming alone? Why linking flood risk perception and behavior requires more than “it's the individual, stupid”

Swimming alone? Why linking flood risk perception and behavior requires more than “it's the individual, stupid”

Two converging paths: behavioural sciences and social marketing for better policies

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