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Some challenges to the new paternalism.
- Source :
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Behavioural Public Policy . Jan2022, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p160-171. 12p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Behavioural public policy analysts have examined cases of individuals' failures of reason or judgement to attain their ends and have used these to justify 'means' paternalism: a form of government intervention that tries to save individuals from the consequences of those reasoning failures and to enable them better to achieve those ends. This has been challenged on a number of grounds, including too great a focus on choice-preserving interventions such as nudges, the privileging of future preferences over current ones and the possibility of state failures as damaging to individual well-being as the original reasoning failure. This paper summarizes the principal arguments in favour of means paternalism and then addresses these challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PUBLIC behavior
*GOVERNMENT policy
*PATERNALISM
*WELL-being
*INTENTION
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2398063X
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Behavioural Public Policy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 154145869
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2020.12