Debate: To Nudge or Not to Nudge*

By Daniel M. Hausman, Brynn F. Welch. 2010

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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Exemplars and nudges: Combining two strategies for moral education (2018, background): “Second, there is a persistent concern about the techniques involved in nudges that critics call both manipulative and a threat to people’s rationality and autonomy (Bovens, 2009; Grüne-Yanoff, 2012; Hausman & Welch, 2010).”
Unresolved questions in nudging research: Putting the psychology back in nudging (2017, background): “These conditions were operationalized by stressing that the alternative, non‐nudged, option should not be made significantly more costly in terms of money, time, trouble, or social sanctions (Hansen & Jespersen, 2013; Hausman & Welch, 2010; Thaler & Sunstein, 2008).”
The Community of Advantage (2018, background): “Other authors have formulated different criticisms that are still relevant to Sugden’s main concerns about liberty and governmental paternalism (Hausman and Welch 2010; Grüne-Yanoff 2012; Rebonato 2014).”
Why We Should Reject ‘Nudge’ (2012, background): “…Pykett and Whitehead, 2011; Pykett et al., 2011), and although there has been some attempt recently to discuss nudge from a conceptual viewpoint (Hausman and Welch, 2010; John, Smith and Stoker, 2009), an attempt to address these specific questions is, by and large, distinctly absent from the…”
Decisional enhancement and autonomy: public attitudes towards overt and covert nudges (2013, background): “come, as well as the desire to protect autonomous decision making (Blumenthal-Barby & Burroughs, 2012; Bovens, 2009; Hausman & Welch, 2010; Hill, 2007; Mitchell, 2004; House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee, 2011; Sugden, 2008; Sunstein & Thaler, 2003; White, 2008 ).”
From Libertarian Paternalism to Nudging—and Beyond (2015, background): “This characterization of libertarian paternalism has sometimes been criticized as too broad (Hausman and Welch 2010): as a matter of fact, some instances of informing nudges would count as libertarian paternalistic, although they would not be categorized as paternalistic, according to most general…”
Public Views on Policies Involving Nudges (2015, background): “Some scholars, like Hausman and Welch (2010) have suggested that a defining characteristic of a nudge is that it plays on individuals intuitive thinking.”
Can nudges be transparent and yet effective (2018, neutral): “Despite growing popularity, use of behavioral insights in policy-making is subject to criticism (e.g. Hausman and Welch, 2010; Rebonato, 2014).”
The ethics of nudging: An overview (2020, methodology): “Some critics worry that nudges are manipulative (Hausman & Welch, 2010; Mills, 2015; White, 2013; Wilkinson, 2013).”
The Definition of Nudge and Libertarian Paternalism: Does the Hand Fit the Glove? (2016, neutral): “Although these disagreements and ambiguities may seem ‘just theoretical’ they actually pose serious problems for the on-going efforts to apply behavioural science to public policy and other pro-social domains.”
Preference purification and the inner rational agent: a critique of the conventional wisdom of behavioural welfare economics (2016, neutral): “His reservations about nudging, presented in a jointly authored paper (Hausman & Welch, 2010; henceforth ‘HW’), throw light on the model of agency that underlies his analysis of preference purification.”