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Theme : public_behaviour
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MORI: Citizens Have Their Say
Page with link to MORI polling, which finds that a majority of the public agrees both that:
“The Govt should do more
to protect people by
passing laws that ban
dangerous activities”
..and:
“The Govt does not trust
ordinary people to make
their own decisions about
dangerous activities”
from : duncanoleary
22nd May 2007
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Overcoming Inertia (pdf)
Quote on 'liberal paternalism':
'Don’t seek to overcome people’s inertia, use it'
from : duncanoleary
1st May 2007
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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
