Recent developments in Behavioural Public Policy: IBPPC 2022

Abstract

First paragraph: Behavioural Public Policy (BPP) is an established sub-discipline of public policy. BPP uses insights from behavioural science, broadly defined, to shape and inform public policy. Intersectionality in social sciences research is central to the research agenda of BPP. To this extent, BPP invites diversity in its approach to understand human behaviours and make policy recommendations, from scholars across established disciplines, notably economics, philosophy, psychology, political science and many more. This interdisciplinary take, in turn, allows BPP to be novel in its methodology and cross-cutting in its applications, in policy fields spanning across environment and climate change, development and social policy, finance, health, misinformation, privacy, law and regulation, and technology and Artificial Intelligence, to name a few.