TY  - BOOK
AU  - Le Grand,Julian
AU  - New,Bill
TI  - Government Paternalism: Nanny State or Helpful Friend? 
SN  - 9780691164373
AV  - HV31 .L49 2017
U1  - 361.65 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Paternalism
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - Social policy
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - assisted suicide
KW  - asymmetric paternalism
KW  - authoritarianism
KW  - autonomy failure
KW  - autonomy
KW  - choice architecture
KW  - coercion
KW  - consent
KW  - decision making
KW  - efficiency
KW  - ends-related paternalism
KW  - equity
KW  - freedom
KW  - government paternalism
KW  - government policies
KW  - hard paternalism
KW  - harm principle
KW  - interference
KW  - intervention
KW  - judgment
KW  - legal moralism
KW  - legal paternalism
KW  - legal restrictions
KW  - libertarian paternalism
KW  - limited imagination
KW  - limited objectivity
KW  - limited technical ability
KW  - limited willpower
KW  - market failure
KW  - means-related paternalism
KW  - moral paternalism
KW  - motivation
KW  - nanny state
KW  - nudge ideas
KW  - nudge policies
KW  - paternalistic intervention
KW  - paternalistic state
KW  - pensions
KW  - perfectionism
KW  - rationality
KW  - reasoning failure
KW  - risky behavior
KW  - smoking
KW  - soft paternalism
KW  - subsidies
KW  - taxation
KW  - well-being
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. Introduction --; 2. What Is Paternalism? --; 3. Types of Paternalism --; 4. Paternalism in Practice --; 5. Paternalism and Well-Being --; 6. The Nanny State: The Challenge from Autonomy --; 7. Libertarian Paternalism --; 8. Paternalism and Policy --; 9. The Politics of Paternalism --; 10. Nanny State or Helpful Friend? --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Should governments save people from themselves? Do governments have the right to influence citizens' behavior related to smoking tobacco, eating too much, not saving enough, drinking alcohol, or taking marijuana-or does this create a nanny state, leading to infantilization, demotivation, and breaches in individual autonomy? Looking at examples from both sides of the Atlantic and around the world, Government Paternalism examines the justifications for, and the prevalence of, government involvement and considers when intervention might or might not be acceptable. Building on developments in philosophy, behavioral economics, and psychology, Julian Le Grand and Bill New explore the roles, boundaries, and responsibilities of the government and its citizens.Le Grand and New investigate specific policy areas, including smoking, saving for pensions, and assisted suicide. They discuss legal restrictions on risky behavior, taxation of harmful activities, and subsidies for beneficial activities. And they pay particular attention to "nudge" or libertarian paternalist proposals that try to change the context in which individuals make decisions so that they make the right ones. Le Grand and New argue that individuals often display "reasoning failure": an inability to achieve the ends that they set themselves. Such instances are ideal for paternalistic interventions-for though such interventions might impinge on autonomy, the impact can be outweighed by an improvement in well-being.Government Paternalism rigorously considers whether the state should guide citizen decision making in positive ways and if so, how this should be achieved
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400866298?locatt=mode:legacy
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