Behavioral strategies in public management: Nudges versus incentives

Nudges are one of the most accepted public policy instruments, due to the success of some recent interventions and its relative low implementation cost. Nevertheless, in order to achieve the modernization of our public administration towards evidence based policies, we should embrace Behavioral strategies are thus more ambitious, and imply not limiting ourselves to nudges, but including other instruments, such as incentives designed taking into account the wide array of human motivations and the array of individual decision making processes. Experimentation, public access to administrative data, and policy evaluation are steps that will go hand in hand with the adoption of behavioral strtaegies by the Spanish public administration.