Summary: Public Policy And Behavior Change - Tummers

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  • 1 Introduction

  • What policy instruments can governments use to change behavior?

    1. Financial incentives

    2. Bans and Mandates

    4. Information campaigns

    5. Nudges
  • 2 Policy Instruments to stimulate behavior change

  • Explain the carrot as policy instrument

    Changing behavior by changing incentives
    (The effects of financial incentives are not always as expected)
  • Explain the whip as policy instrument

    Changing behavior with bans and mandates
  • Explain the sermon (preek) as policy instrument

    Changing behavior by information campaigns of the government.
  • What do the carrot, whip and sermon as policy instruments have in common? What is the defeat of them.

    It is based on rational decision making, but people do not always make completely rational decisions.
  • What is a nudge? How does it differ from the carrot, whip and sermon

    A nudge is a way to change behavior without prohibiting options or significantly changing its costs. It is based on the notion of bounded rationality.
  • 3 resistance to behavior change

  • On what does the effectiveness of policy instruments that change a default depend?

    A policy could be ineffective of have negative effects when stakeholders oppose changing the default.
  • 4 A conceptual framework for behavior change by governments

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  • What criteria are relevant when analyzing if behavior change is both effective and supported?

    1. Effective

    2. Efficient 


    3. Political support

    4. Organizational support

    5. Personal support

    If the behavior change is supported political, organizational and personally it is POPular.
  • What is effective behavior change?

    The degree to which the public policy produces the intended behavior change

    N.B.
    1. For how long?
    2. Side effects?
  • What is efficient behavior change?

    The degree to which the public policy uses minimum resources to produce the intended behavior change
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