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Designing self- and co-regulation initiatives: best practice - a literature review

This literature review looks at how behavioural insight is used in the design of alternatives to regulation and how this can improve compliance and participation.

Published 21 October 2019
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Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

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This review looks at how behavioural insight is used in the design of alternatives to regulation and how this can improve compliance and participation.

The evidence was varied and diverse, but some key levers that could be used to increase the success of a policy initiative included:

  • engaging potential users
  • implicit threat to legislative or reputational incentives
  • peer pressure
Published 21 October 2019