Behavioral Insights as a New Generation of Public Service Delivery

• Authors: Gawłowski Robert
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

For many years behavioral insights has been on the top of political agenda. The aim of this article it to examine how the most innovative countries use this public management tool into public administration realm. In pursuit of this, behavioral insights units have been research in six countries. In conclusion author figure out that there is still a huge room for development and looking a new strategy to implement nudging in a larger scale.

Keywords

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public service delivery; behavioral insights; nudge; innovation in public administration

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 2 (48)
• Pages: 319-329

Contributors

author

Gawłowski Robert

• WSB University in Toruń (Poland)

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Notes

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