The politics of public behaviour
This project is a chance to explore the tensions in the current debate between fostering a 'nanny state' and finding a response to some of the most pressing social issues of our time.
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- Recycling taxes - what a load of rubbish | Dt Opinion | Opinion | Telegraph Argues for incentives over penalties to avoid unintended consequences: 'Taxes and penalties invariably fail to deliver what the politicians imagine they will, whereas more of us respond positively to an incentive. It is about time that politicians, instead of always reaching for the fiscal stick, recognised the greater potential of the carrot' from : duncanoleary 1st May 2007
- The New, Soft Paternalism - New York Times Exploring the ethics of 'soft paternalism': 'what if the government could somehow step in and nudge them in the right direction without interfering with their liberty, or at least not very much? Welcome to the new world of “soft paternalism.” The old “hard” paternalism says, We know what’s best for you, and we’ll force you to do it. By contrast, soft paternalism says, You know what’s best for you, and we’ll help you to do it.' from : duncanoleary 1st May 2007
- Overcoming Inertia (pdf) Quote on 'liberal paternalism': 'Don’t seek to overcome people’s inertia, use it' from : duncanoleary 1st May 2007
- Dizzy Blog: Incentives vs coercion 'There is no incentive present when you use tax to punish people into changing their ways. Genuine incentives do not use negativity (in this case financial pain) as a means to an end. Attempting to draw a distinction between increased tax and incentives is like arguing in favour of torture because it provides an incentive to talk. Incentives are positive benefits that are acheived from a neutral status-quo position.' from : duncanoleary 1st May 2007
- PledgeBank We all know what it is like to feel powerless, that our own actions can't really change the things that we want to change. PledgeBank is about beating that feeling by connecting you with other people who also want to make a change, but who don't want the personal risk of being the only person to turn up to a meeting or the only person to donate ten pounds to a cause that actually needed a thousand. You create a pledge...but only if other people will pledge to do the same thing from : duncanoleary 1st May 2007
- Production by the masses (pdf) Charlie Leadbeater on public services: 'public services must promote motivation and cultural change. Motivation is the new medicine: motivating and equipping people to look after themselves better...Only a sustained programme of radical redesign, to shift public services and their professionals away from a perverted, semiindustrial format, in which they attempt to deliver solutions to waiting consumers, will deal with the deep sense of malaise that now afflicts most public service professions. from : duncanoleary 1st May 2007
- Wanless Review Found that: 'The core difference between the health outcomes in the fully engaged and solid progress scenarios is not the way in which the service responds over the next 20 years, but the way in which the public and patients do.' from : duncanoleary 1st May 2007
- The pensions bill explained Mentions Turner reccomendation for the introduction of a national savings scheme, which would see employees automatically enrolled in company pensions...and the white paper plan for a national pensions saving scheme in which employees will be automatically enrolled in workplace pension schemes unless they choose to opt out. from : duncanoleary 1st May 2007
- Planning: politics vs economics 'Part of the social cost a new airport is noise. How do we measure this cost? We could give residents rights to quiet skies. Then, the airport builders would have to buy these rights. If they could do so, the benefits of the airport would exceed the cost, so it would be reasonable for the airport to go ahead. But if residents demanded too high a price for the builders' liking, that would be a sign that the cost exceeded the benefit, so the project wouldn't go ahead.' from : duncanoleary 21st May 2007
- Oliver Letwin speech: 'Cameron Conservatism' Argues that: 'government (apart from its perennial role in guaranteeing security and stability)… is conceived principally as an agency for enabling individuals, families, associations and corporations to internalise externalities and hence to live up to social responsibilities without the further intervention of authority.' from : duncanoleary 22nd May 2007