Trusting nudges? Lessons from an international survey

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2019, Pages 1417-1443

  Sunstein, Cass R ^a   Reisch, Lucia A ^b   Kaiser, Micha ^c  

^a HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^c ZEPPELIN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioural public policy; choice architecture; nudge; online representative survey; public approval; trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 85054868280     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2018.1531912     Document Type: Article

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