Le Grand, Julian 
ORCID: 0000-0002-7864-0118
(2020)
Some challenges to the new paternalism.
Behavioural Public Policy, 6 (1).
pp. 160-171.
ISSN 2398-063X
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press. |
| Divisions: | Social Policy |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2022 15:33 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Apr 2025 23:07 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/115614 |
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