Organizations learning from others’ successful policies become more competitive not only because their policies improve but also because they avoid the costs of policy innovation. While latecomer advantage has been widely recognized by economists, the policy diffusion literature in political...

Promoting agency – people’s ability to form intentions and to act on them freely – must become a primary objective for behavioural public policy (BPP). Contemporary BPPs do not pursue this objective, which is problematic for many reasons. From an ethical perspective, goals like personal...