Nudging for Liberals

Moles, Andres

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“…Luc Bovens (2018) warns that charitable nudging can amount to “trickery” (p. 169), undermine autonomous agency, and entail an “abuse of power and violations of privacy” (p. 171). Other authors restrict the use of charitable nudges to life-threatening causes, such as disaster recovery (Hobbs, 2017; Krishnamurthy, 2015; Moles, 2015). We later label these cases as involving a perfect duty .…”

Section: Fundraising and Behavioral Insightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Here, nudging comes to the rescue because it does not coerce or enforce. Nudge strategies are not only able to facilitate and encourage people to perform duties that are not enforceable (Moles, 2015), they can also encourage people to adopt ends related to (imperfect) duties. When rational persuasion is unable to motivate people to adopt ends related to their imperfect duties (for example, the end to promote others’ well-being) and when people acting in line with such duties generates important benefits, we have good reason to encourage this.…”

Section: Perfect and Imperfect Duties And Supererogationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Nudging Charitable Giving: What (If Anything) Is Wrong With It?

Ruehle

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Archer

2020

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Nudging techniques can help charities to increase donations. In this article, we first provide a systematic overview of prototypical nudges that promote charitable giving. Second, we argue that plenty of the ethical objections raised against nudges, such as the exploitation of power they involve and the arguably intrusive and deceptive nature, are not specific to nudging itself. Carefully designing nudges can help to avoid these worries. Third, given that most concerns boil down to the worry that nudges infringe on people’s autonomy, we analyze when this could nevertheless be justified. We differentiate between perfect duties, imperfect duties, and supererogatory acts and argue that nudges are (a) morally permissible (even when they violate autonomy) when it comes to perfect duties and can (b) provide the best available strategy when it comes to imperfect duties. That said, we also analyze the conditions under which nudging charitable giving is impermissible.

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Section: Fundraising and Behavioral Insightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Perfect and Imperfect Duties And Supererogationmentioning

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Nudging Charitable Giving: What (If Anything) Is Wrong With It?

Ruehle

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Archer

2020

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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“…Without the inclusion of the concept of positive influence (aka improvement or enhancement), we risk including forms of influence that could benefit the influencer while having negative effects on the influencee, for instance the advertiser who sells sugary drinks, knowing full well that the influence will not be good for the consumer, but that it will increase their own profit. Following Moles, this could be regarded as manipulation because it interferes with the preferences of the influencee by bypassing or undermining the way judgements and preferences are formed (Moles, 2015). In the case of the advertiser, the manipulation is exploitative (and therefore is not educational) if it ignores the good of the influencee.…”

Section: What Is Education?mentioning

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Religion and Education: Framing and Mapping a Field

2019

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This publication makes the case for ‘religion and education’ as a distinct, but cross-disciplinary, field of inquiry. To begin with, consideration is given to the changing dynamic between ‘religion and education’ historically, and the differing understandings of religious education within it. Next, ‘religion and education’ is examined from methodologically specific perspectives, namely the philosophical, historical and sociological. The authors outline the particular insights to be gleaned about ‘religion and education’ on the basis of their commitment to these methodological standpoints. Overall, this publication is concerned with demonstrating the scope of the field, and the importance of having a range of disciplinary, and interdisciplinary, perspectives informing it.

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“…The guide provides a variety of nudges that are effective at reducing fraud. It suggests that tax declaration forms should be easy to fill in, that the sense of honesty can be increased by forcing people to sign the declaration before they enter their details, and that people tend to comply with rules when they are aware that most people also comply with them" (Moles, 2015). This nudge would certainly not be effective if people were on the lookout for these techniques.…”

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confidence: 99%

Christiano’s Deliberative Expertism and Choice Architecture

Ivanković¹

2016

Anali

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The article explores Thomas Christiano's account of the moral division of labor in democracy. Christiano's incorporation of experts serves the purpose of alleviating the epistemic burdens of ordinary citizens in the decision-making process and decreasing the amount of work they would otherwise be required to take on in a modern democracy. The gist of my contribution to the debate is assessing whether Christiano's account successfully tackles the issues brought about by cognitive biases that people suffer from in communicating their values in decisionmaking. I argue that Christiano's notion of experts needs to be extended to choice architects, who possess the knowledge on methods for influencing choice. I also claim that choice architecture is a social fact that an informed deliberative democratic theory needs to deal with.

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Nudging for Liberals

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Nudging Charitable Giving: What (If Anything) Is Wrong With It?

Nudging Charitable Giving: What (If Anything) Is Wrong With It?

Religion and Education: Framing and Mapping a Field

Christiano’s Deliberative Expertism and Choice Architecture

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