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This textbook is an introductory guide to applying behavioral sciences and systemic thinking into public policy design and implementation.It presents an innovative public management toolkit to handle wicked' social problems those not very responsive to traditional public policy instruments by incorporating insights from the behavioral sciences and systemic design in the diagnostics of public problems, based on the motivations and constraints of the real citizen' beyond the ideal citizen's perfectly rational intentions and plans devoid of social context or self-control problems. This volume aims to motivate the inclusion of broader and deeper insights from the behavioral sciences especially behavioral economics, cognitive psychology, and social psychology to the repertoire of public managers by introducing new methodologies for diagnosing the root causes behind public problems and for designing effective policies to address them. The new diagnosis tool theMSI framework (an acron

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