Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Nudge and the law : a European perspective / edited by Alberto Alemanno and Anne-Lise Sibony
Published Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2015

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Series Modern studies in European law
Modern studies in European law.
Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- 1. The Emergence of Behavioural Policy-Making: A European Perspective -- I. NUDGE AND THE LAW -- II. A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE -- III. STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF THE VOLUME -- Part I: Integrating Behavioural Sciences into EU Law-Making -- 2. Behavioural Sciences in Practice: Lessons for EU Rulemakers -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. COGNITIVE-BASED APPROACH TO THE REGULATORY PROCESS -- III. COGNITIVE-BASED STRATEGIES
IV. STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF COGNITIVE-BASED REGULATORY TOOLSV. LESSON DRAWING FOR RULEMAKERS -- 3. Nudging and Evidence-Based Policy in Europe: Problems of Normative Legitimacy and Effectiveness -- I. INTRODUCTION: THE RISE OF THE �NUDGE� REGULATORY STATE? -- II. POTENTIAL PROBLEMS WITH THE USE OF BEHAVIOURAL TOOLS -- III. THE EUROPEAN REGULATORY STATE? ON HARMONISATION AND HETEROGENEITY -- IV. CONCLUDING THOUGHTS -- 4 . Judge the Nudge: In Search of the Legal Limits of Paternalistic Nudging in the EU -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE AIM OF NUDGES
III. THE TOOLBOX OF PATERNALISMIV. JUDGING THE NUDGE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION -- V. CONCLUSION -- Part II: De-Biasing Through EU Law and Beyond -- 5. Can Experts be Trusted and what can be done about it? Insights from the Biases and Heuristics Literature -- I. EXPERTS, COGNITIVE BIASES AND THE OBJECTIVITY IDEAL -- II. THE DE-BIASING PROJECT -- III. THE ILLUSION OF COGNITIVE STERILITY: ON THE LIMITS OF DE-BIASING -- IV. FROM THEORY TO POLICY: A REALISTIC VISION OF THE DE-BIASING PROJECT -- V. CONCLUSIONS
6. Overcoming Illusions of Control: How to Nudge and Teach Regulatory HumilityI. INTRODUCTION -- II. WHAT PREVENTS THE EU FROM �DOING NOTHING�? -- III. USING PROMPTS TO GUIDE POLICYMAKERS IN THE �FAST� LANE -- IV. CREATING REFLECTIVE AND MINDFUL POLICYMAKERS IN THE �SLOW� LANE -- V. CONCLUSION -- Part III: The Impact of Behavioural Sciences on EU Policies -- 7. Behavioural Sciences and EU Data Protection Law: Challenges and Opportunities -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. PRIVACY AS SOCIAL INTEREST AND AUTONOMY OF INDIVIDUALS� BEHAVIOUR
III. THE CHALLENGES POSED BY BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES TO THE TRADITIONAL APPROACH TO DATA PROTECTIONIV. AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO BEHAVIOURALLY INFORMED DATA PROTECTION -- V. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 8. Behavioural Sciences and the Regulation of Privacy on the Internet -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BEHAVIOURAL TARGETING AND PRIVACY -- III. INFORMED CONSENT IN THE LAW -- IV. INFORMED CONSENT IN PRACTICE -- V. HOW TO IMPROVE PRIVACY PROTECTION? -- VI. CONCLUSION -- 9. EU Consumer Protection and Behavioural Sciences: Revolution or Reform? -- I. INTRODUCTION
Summary Behavioural sciences help refine our understanding of human decision-making. Their insights are immensely relevant for policy-making since public intervention works much better when it targets real people rather than imaginary beings assumed to be perfectly rational. Increasingly, governments around the world are keen to rely on those insights for reshaping public interventions in a wide range of policy areas such as energy, health, financial services and data protection. When policy-making meets behavioural sciences, effective and low-cost regulations can emerge in the form of default rules,
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Vendor-supplied metadata
Subject Law and the social sciences -- European Union countries
EU & European institutions.
LAW -- Essays.
LAW -- General Practice.
LAW -- Jurisprudence.
LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW -- Practical Guides.
LAW -- Reference.
Law and the social sciences
Politique publique -- Pays de l'Union européenne -- Politique et gouvernement.
Sciences du comportement.
Law.
European Union countries
Form Electronic book
Author Alemanno, Alberto, editor
Sibony, Anne-Lise, editor
ISBN 9781782259497
178225949X
9781474203463
1474203469
9781782259480
1782259481