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Some challenges to the new paternalism

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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.

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  • Le Grand, Julian, 2022. "Some challenges to the new paternalism," Behavioural Public Policy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 6(1), pages 160-171, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bpubpo:v:6:y:2022:i:1:p:160-171_9
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