Postgraduate Module Descriptor

POLM227M: Behavioural Public Policy and Administration

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Cohen, I.G., Fernandez Lynch, H. & Ronertson, C.T. (Eds). 2016.  Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioural Economics.Johns Hopkins University Press.

Galizzi, Matteo M. 2014. “What is really behavioral in behavioral health policy?  And does it work?”  Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 36(1): 25-60.

Grimmelikhuijsen, S., Jilke, S., Olsen, A.L. & Tummers, L. 2016. ‘Behavioral Public Administration’, Public Administration Review.

James, S. 2012. “The contribution of behavioral economics to tax reform in the United Kingdom”, Journal of Socio-Economics, 41: 468-475.

John, P. 2016. ‘Behavioural Approaches: How Nudges Lead to more Intelligent Policy Design’, in Philippe Zittoun and B. Guy Peters. (Eds). Contemporary Approaches to Public Policy, Palgrave Macmillan.

 John, P. et al. 2011.  Nudge, Nudge, Think,Think: Experimenting with Ways to Change Civic Behaviour. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

 Kahneman, D. 2013.  Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

 Low, D. (Ed). 2011.  Behavioural Economics and Policy Design: Examples from Singapore.  Civil Service College Singapore/ World Scientific.

 Ly, K. & Soman, D. 2013.  Nudging Around the World. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

OECD. 2017.  Behavioural Insights and Public Policy: Lessons from Around the World.  OECD. Publishing, Paris. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264270480-en. Read online:

http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/governance/behavioural-insights-and-public-policy_9789264270480-en#.WQH1Uz-GOUk

Oliver, A. 2017.  The origins of behavioural public policy.  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Oliver, A. 2013. Ed.  Behavioural Public Policy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Oliver, Adam. 2013. “From Nudging to Budging: Using Behavioural Economics to Inform Public Sector Policy”, Journal of Social Policy, 42(4): 685-700.

Shafir, E (Ed). 2012.  The Behavioural Foundations of Public Policy. Princetown University Press.

Sunstein, C. 2016.  The Ethics of Influence: Government in the Age of Behavioral Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sunstein, C. Forthcoming. ‘Do People Like Nudges?, Administrative Law Review  , Forthcoming. Draft Working Paper Available at  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2604084

Sunstein, C. 2015.  Why Nudge? The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism. Yale University Press.

Thaler, R. and C. Sunstein. 2008.  Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness. New Haven, Yale University Press.