How can governments persuade their citizens to act in socially beneficial ways? This ground-breaking book builds on the idea of 'light touch interventions' or 'nudges' proposed in Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's highly influentialNudge(2008). While recognising the power of this approach, it argues that an alternative also needs to be considered: a 'think' strategy that calls on citizens to decide their own priorities as part of a process of civic and democratic renewal. As well as setting out these divergent approaches in theory, the book provides evidence from a number of experiments to show how using 'nudge' or 'think' techniques works in practice. Updated and rewritten, this second edition features a new epilogue that reflects on recent developments in nudge theory and practice, introducing a radical version of nudge, nudge plus. There is also a substantial prologue by Cass Sunstein.

Peter John is Professor of Public Policy at King's College London; Sarah Cotterill is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Biostatistics at the University of Manchester; Alice Moseley is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter; Liz Richardson is Reader in Politics at the University of Manchester; Graham Smith is Professor of Politics at the University of Westminster; Gerry Stoker is Professor of Governance at the University of Southampton; Corinne Wales is Head Of English at International College, University of Dundee

Foreword by Greg Clark, MPPrologue by Cass SunsteinIntroduction1 Nudging and thinking2 Testing3 Recycling4 Volunteering5 Voting6 Petitioning7 Giving8 Donating9 Debating10 Including11 Linking12 Summary of key findings13 Epilogue: the future of nudge and thinkIndex