Behavioral Science and Policy Center

Behavioral Science and Policy Center
founded in the year	2012
acronym	BSPC
City	Durham, NC
Country	USA
Website	https://bspc.ssri.duke.edu
address	Social Science Research Institute Erwin Mill Building 2024 W. Main St. Durham, NC 27705
founder	Sim Sitkin
type of institution	academic, higher education, network of scientists
Virtual Networks A "Virtual Network" is a group of Think Tanks identified by certain semantic and normative (ideological) commonalities (e.g. climate change scepticism). Such a virtual network constitutes a research field that differs from the study of formal networks. Formal networks are real in the sense of officially acknowledged and immediately open to empirical validation. Virtual networks on the other hand display shared ideas. Social network analysis tools can be applied to find out if or to what extent virtual networks are real networks that display linkages (membership in networks, personnel, resources etc.). Unconnected think tanks in turn can be considered special cases in need of explanation independent from network structures (unless we have to assume invisible, hidden or covered ties).	Behavioural economics in public governance
Last revision	9.06.2017

The following coordinate was not recognized: 36.008048;-78.923423.The following coordinate was not recognized: 36.008048;-78.923423. From the start page: "The Behavioral Science & Policy Center (BSPC) is a global community of behavioral science researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners. Affiliated with the Behavioral Science & Policy Association, we promote the application of rigorous behavioral science research into concrete policy solutions that serve the public interest. We do this through a variety of activities including, conferences and briefings, networking activities, information aggregation, and publication of our flagship journal, Behavioral Science & Policy."

Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

Social Science Research Institute Erwin Mill Building 2024 W. Main St. Durham, NC 27705

Working mode, goals

The BSPC is affiliated with the Behavioural Science and Policy Association, both, BSPC and BSPA claim the editorship of the journal Behavioural Science and Policy and identify each of them as network of policy makers and scientists, but the form of affiliation is

Cooperations with Think Tanks

• Behavioural Science and Policy Association
• Brookings Institution

Think Tanks that claim to cooperate with the Behavioral Science and Policy Center

While the section above shows Think Tanks the Behavioral Science and Policy Center claims to cooperate with, the list below shows Think Tanks that claim to cooperate with the Behavioral Science and Policy Center. NONE

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.

Notes

This section is used to note presumptions that need further investigation, as well as things that don't fit into other sections.

On the founding year: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sim-sitkin-48a8a/ (Sitkin's linkedin page, identified with the starting year of his directorship of the center)