Inside the Behavioural State / Joram Feitsma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feitsma, Joram, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government policy.

Political planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

The Hague, The Netherlands : Eleven International Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

Inside the Behavioural State by Joram Feitsma is an in-depth exploration of the 'Behavioural Insights' movement within governmental policy. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Dutch government, the book examines the role of behavioural insights experts and their influence on policy design, particularly through the use of nudges and field experiments. The study analyzes the complexities and contradictions of the emerging 'behavioural state', offering insights into its potential and limitations. The author, a qualitative researcher at Utrecht University School of Governance, provides a nuanced account of this movement's impact on state and society, making it a valuable resource for academics and policymakers interested in behavioural science and public policy. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Table of contents

I Introduction

1. Seeing like a behavioural state

1.1 Initiation into the behavioural state

1.2 Method matters

1.3 Contributions to science, state and society

2. Debating the behavioural state

2.1 The rise of the Behavioural Insights movement

2.2 Trench warfare about the behavioural state

II Observations

Practices

3. Brokering the central behavioural state

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The long winding road from behavioural insight to policy

3.3 Methods

3.4 What Dutch behaviour experts actually do

3.5 Conclusion and discussion

4. Localizing the local behavioural state

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The rise of the steering state

4.3 Local behavioural expertise as terra incognita

4.4 Methods

4.5 Explorations in the local Behavioural Insights landscape

4.6 Conclusion and discussion

Professionalization

5. Professionalizing the behavioural state

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Professionalization mechanisms

5.3 Methods

5.4 The rise of the Dutch behaviour expert

5.5 Professional developments in the Behavioural Insights field

5.6 Conclusion and discussion

6. Tailoring the behavioural state

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Methods

6.3 Consistencies in the Behavioural Insights field

6.4 Contingencies in the Behavioural Insights field

6.5 Conclusion and discussion

Expertise

7. Institutionalizing the behavioural state

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The rationalism versus incrementalism debate

7.3 Methods

7.4 The frontstage and backstage of Behavioural Insights

7.5 Conclusion and discussion

8. Deliberating the behavioural state

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Methods

8.3 Technocracy

8.4 Psychocracy

8.5 Conclusion and discussion

9. Interdisciplinizing the behavioural state

9.1 Introduction.

9.2 Behavioural Insights policy in critical interdisciplinary context

9.3 Behavioural Insights, public administration, and the quirks of 'what works'

9.4 Behavioural Insights, geography, and the issue of context

9.5 Conclusion and discussion

III Discussion

10. Futuring the behavioural state

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Is there a behavioural state?

10.3 How is the behavioural state developing?

10.4 How does the behavioural state see?

10.5 What may become of the behavioural state?

10.6 Should there be a behavioural state?

10.7 How should the behavioural state be studied?

References

Appendices

List of publications.

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ISBN:

9789462745056

9462745056

OCLC:

1379433520