Título: | INTUITIONS AND INSTITUTIONS: NEW PERSPECTIVES OF STATE PATERNALISM | ||||||||||||
Autor: |
GABRIEL CABRAL |
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Colaborador(es): |
NOEL STRUCHINER - Orientador IVAR ALLAN RODRIGUEZ HANNIKAINEN - Coorientador |
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Catalogação: | 25/AGO/2016 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||
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[pt] Todos os dados constantes dos documentos são de inteira responsabilidade de seus autores. Os dados utilizados nas descrições dos documentos estão em conformidade com os sistemas da administração da PUC-Rio. [en] All data contained in the documents are the sole responsibility of the authors. The data used in the descriptions of the documents are in conformity with the systems of the administration of PUC-Rio. |
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Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=27207&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=27207&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.27207 | ||||||||||||
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When Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York, proposed to limit
the size of soft drink cups sold in cafeterias, critics denounced the flagrant
disregard for freedom of choice. Supporters of the mayor, in turn, boasted the
expected benefits to public health. These irreconcilable values, freedom versus
well-being, heated a debate about the limits of state paternalism. Recently,
however, based on evidences of cognitive failures and biases diagnosed by
psychologists and behavioral economists, Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler
suggested a third way, the weak or libertarian paternalism, which would increase
people s well-being without eliminating options to choose from: in instead of
coercion, subtle nudges toward better decisions. Although the weak paternalism
was a success among governors, the same success was not followed within the
academy: Sarah Conly considered it inefficient to be an alternative to the strong
paternalism and liberals considered it against freedom, specifically against one
type of freedom: autonomy. Thus, one comes to the hypothesis that the rejection
of strong paternalism stems from the perception of loss of freedom in the negative
sense, whereas the rejection of weak paternalism stems from the perception of
loss of freedom in a positive sense or autonomy. In order to test this hypothesis,
several experiments were ran using methods of social psychology. The results of
the experiments corroborate the hypothesis by indicating the correlation between
belief in scientific determinism, which challenges the notion of autonomy and
self-determination, and less rejection of weak paternalism of state.
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