TY - CHAP
T1 - Nudging Citizens’ Knowledge in Knowledge-based EU – The
case of breast cancer screening programmes and participatory rights in choice architectures
AU - Tallacchini, Mariachiara
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This chapter reflects on nudging and choice architecture in the light of how the concept of European citizenship has been designed. Since the beginning of the passage between the economic and the political European communities citizenship has been considered as a key element in legitimizing innovation both from the epistemic and the normative point of view. This role, however, has remained mostly theoretical, if not rhetorical; nonetheless, the pressures to speed-up governance in Europe have led to new regulatory soft practices (such as nudge) that challenge of citizenship. Two examples, dealing with health and digital privacy, where citizens are treated as ‘objects of concern and control’, reveal some of these ambiguities. In order to rethink nudging as a more legitimate form of normative innovation, the notions of Participatory Design and Rights-in-Design are proposed as ways to open up and reframe choice architectures by granting more robust epistemic and democratic credibility.
AB - This chapter reflects on nudging and choice architecture in the light of how the concept of European citizenship has been designed. Since the beginning of the passage between the economic and the political European communities citizenship has been considered as a key element in legitimizing innovation both from the epistemic and the normative point of view. This role, however, has remained mostly theoretical, if not rhetorical; nonetheless, the pressures to speed-up governance in Europe have led to new regulatory soft practices (such as nudge) that challenge of citizenship. Two examples, dealing with health and digital privacy, where citizens are treated as ‘objects of concern and control’, reveal some of these ambiguities. In order to rethink nudging as a more legitimate form of normative innovation, the notions of Participatory Design and Rights-in-Design are proposed as ways to open up and reframe choice architectures by granting more robust epistemic and democratic credibility.
KW - Nudge, behavioral sciences, participatory rights
KW - Nudge, behavioral sciences, participatory rights
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/153004
U2 - 10.4337/9781785367854.00017
DO - 10.4337/9781785367854.00017
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978 1 78536 784 7
VL - 2019
SP - 148
EP - 162
BT - Handbook of Behavioural Change and Public Policy
ER -