Behavioral Insights, Public Consultation, and Regulatory Policy: Perspectives from Europe

September 21, 2022

The European Commission’s “better regulation” agenda recognizes public consultation as an essential tool for enhancing the effectiveness of rules and strengthening compliance with them. In this webinar, Nicoletta Rangone, Professor of Administrative Law at LUMSA University in Rome and a visiting scholar at Penn Carey Law and the Penn Program on Regulation (PPR), presents new research on cognitive biases among decision-makers, stakeholders, and citizens that can limit the effectiveness of public consultation, and she explains what can be done about these biases to improve the consultation process in Europe and beyond.

Following Prof. Rangone’s remarks, Christiane Arndt-Bascle, Head of Programme on Measuring Regulatory Performance at the OECD, offers commentary drawing on the OECD’s work on public consultation. PPR Director Cary Coglianese, the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, moderates the discussion.

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