Paternalism Attitudes and the Happiness Value of Fundamental Freedoms

Ka, Konrad; Sa, Simon

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“…Covid-19 is quoted as a prominent, high-stakes case of paternalistic decision-making in the literature (cf. Konrad and Simon, 2023) and policy-making during Covid-19 naturally required many paternalistic decisions. Respondents of our UK-based survey should also be readily able to identify the trade-offs involved in the scenario outlined below, adding to its external validity.…”

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Affective paternalism

Dolan,

Krekel,

Swanke

2024

Behav. Public Policy

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Many decisions are curated, incentivised or nudged by a third party. Despite this, only a handful of studies have looked at paternalistic decision-makers and the psychological processes by which they arrive at their decisions. The role of affect, in particular, has been ignored so far, and yet restricting agency on a potentially large group of people might be highly unpleasant. We are the first to propose a conceptual framework of affective paternalism which explicitly accounts for the role of affect in paternalistic decision-making, identifying all entry points through which affect may create systematic deviations in decision outcomes. We shed light on some of these phenomena by using a novel survey experiment in which we let participants make paternalistic decisions whilst also asking them about their motivations behind their choices, including cognitive reasons and affect. Our findings suggest that affect may play a significant role in paternalistic decision-making and lead to systematically different decision outcomes. To the extent that these that could result in inefficient, undesirable or unfair consequences, our framework may help more accurately predict a paternalist's decision and suggest entry points for where and possibly how to intervene in the paternalistic decision-making process.

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“…First, it is quoted as a recent, prominent, high-stakes case of paternalistic decision-making in the literature (cf. Konrad and Simon, 2023). Second, respondents of our UK-based survey (which was fielded on Tuesday, 15 December 2020, i.e.…”

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Affective paternalism

Dolan,

Krekel,

Swanke

2024

Behav. Public Policy

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“…We take the data collected by Konrad and Simon (2021), which contains the raw responses to 11 statements that address six specific policy domains and five more general attitudes toward regulation.…”

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“…An important difference from the work by Konrad and Simon (2021) is that we use the raw responses to these 11 questionnaire statements to analyze how socio-economic factors determine paternalistic preferences, while they only use them in a factor analysis to create a Governmental Paternalism Index that they use as an independent variable. By doing this, we extend the gender differences literature and add a more nuanced analysis of the differences by domain, as Konrad and Simon (2021) do not find that gender was a major factor in explaining the paternalism index that aggregated several topics. A better understanding of the differences in paternalism preferences across groups improves the knowledge to make informed decisions as a policymaker, since policies will affect different groups in a distinct way (there is an important heterogeneity over paternalism preferences, see Appendix A.4), thus making policies less welfare-enhancing than others.…”

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Paternalism Preferences: Differences Across Genders

Villalba

2023

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The political economy of paternalism

Konrad

2024

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Some citizens place a high value on making decisions for themselves. Other citizens are happy to delegate decisions to a government agency. Such differences in political attitudes to paternalism can be explained in a strict rational-choice model with citizens’ heterogeneous tastes in the economic sphere. Citizens with more eccentric tastes and with high decision-making abilities tend to favor a libertarian regime. If majority preferences matter, heterogeneity in economic preferences and analytical abilities can also explain whether the political regime is more paternalist or more libertarian. As decision-making skills are a learnable capability, the strategic complementarity of individuals’ investments in analytical skills in the context of political regime outcomes suggests a feedback mechanism that can cause multiple expectations equilibria. Both a libertarian regime or a paternalist regime can emerge.

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Paternalism Attitudes and the Happiness Value of Fundamental Freedoms

Cited by 4 publications

References 35 publications

Affective paternalism

Affective paternalism

Paternalism Preferences: Differences Across Genders

The political economy of paternalism

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