Inside The Behavioural State
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A ‘Behavioural Insights’ movement has entered the global policy scene. Drawing from the behavioural sciences, this movement has been pushing novel forms of policy analysis and design, particularly promoting the use of ‘nudges’ and field experiments. Despite Behavioural Insights’ apparent popularity, its contribution to state and society has been appraised divergently.
Some see a promise of radical evidence-based government, others a looming manipulative technocracy, and again others a trivial fad. In light of the puzzle posed by these clashing appraisals, this study has explored Behavioural Insights from up close. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Dutch government, it asks what Behavioural Insights experts actually do, how they are professionalizing and how they ‘see’. The result is a rich account of the emerging ‘behavioural state’, with a sharper understanding of its varieties, tensions and ambiguities.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
1. Seeing like a behavioural state
1.1 Initiation into the behavioural state 1
1.2 Method matters 5
1.3 Contributions to science, state and society 17
2. Debating the behavioural state 21
2.1 The rise of the Behavioural Insights movement 23
2.2 Trench warfare about the behavioural state 26
II Observations
Practices
3. Brokering the central behavioural state 51
3.1 Introduction 53
3.2 The long winding road from behavioural insight to policy 54
3.3 Methods 59
3.4 What Dutch behaviour experts actually do 61
3.5 Conclusion and discussion 72
4. Localizing the local behavioural state 75
4.1 Introduction 77
4.2 The rise of the steering state 77
4.3 Local behavioural expertise as terra incognita 80
4.4 Methods 83
4.5 Explorations in the local Behavioural Insights landscape 85
4.6 Conclusion and discussion 98
Professionalization
5. Professionalizing the behavioural state 103
5.1 Introduction 105
5.2 Professionalization mechanisms 106
5.3 Methods 107
5.4 The rise of the Dutch behaviour expert 108
5.5 Professional developments in the Behavioural Insights field 110
5.6 Conclusion and discussion 121
6. Tailoring the behavioural state 123
6.1 Introduction 125
6.2 Methods 129
6.3 Consistencies in the Behavioural Insights field 131
6.4 Contingencies in the Behavioural Insights field 135
6.5 Conclusion and discussion 139
Expertise
7. Institutionalizing the behavioural state 145
7.1 Introduction 147
7.2 The rationalism versus incrementalism debate 148
7.3 Methods 150
7.4 The frontstage and backstage of Behavioural Insights 152
7.5 Conclusion and discussion 163
8. Deliberating the behavioural state 167
8.1 Introduction 169
8.2 Methods 173
8.3 Technocracy 176
8.4 Psychocracy 184
8.5 Conclusion and discussion 191
9. Interdisciplinizing the behavioural state 195
9.1 Introduction 197
9.2 Behavioural Insights policy in critical interdisciplinary context 198
9.3 Behavioural Insights, public administration, and the quirks of ‘what works’ 204
9.4 Behavioural Insights, geography, and the issue of context 210
9.5 Conclusion and discussion 215
III Discussion
10. Futuring the behavioural state 221
10.1 Introduction 223
10.2 Is there a behavioural state? 224
10.3 How is the behavioural state developing? 227
10.4 How does the behavioural state see? 230
10.5 What may become of the behavioural state? 234
10.6 Should there be a behavioural state? 238
10.7 How should the behavioural state be studied? 243
References 247
Appendices 269
List of publications 277
About the author 278
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- advisering
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- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
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