introduction: the political economy of human happiness

Autor:	Benjamin Radcliff, Larry M. Bartels, William A. Galston
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Government Argument Political economy media_common.quotation_subject Political Science and International Relations Happiness Comparative politics Public policy Welfare state Sociology Big government media_common Fundamental human needs
Zdroj:	European Political Science. 15:422-434
ISSN:	1682-0983 1680-4333
DOI:	10.1057/eps.2015.53
Popis:	In The Political Economy of Human Happiness: How Voters’ Choices Determine the Quality of Life, Benjamin Radcliff considers a wide variety of data from North America and Europe and argues that, on balance, welfare state policies make people happier. In short, there is a positive correlation and a causal relationship between happiness and welfare state provisions. This is an important conclusion for anyone interested in public policy and debates about the size of government. In their reviews, Larry M. Bartels and William A. Galston take issue with Radcliff’s thesis. They challenge the relationships that Radcliff suggests exist between specific policies and happiness. Bartels challenges the way Radcliff uses his statistics to support his thesis about the relationship between happiness and specific policies as well as our ability to make generalisations from the data. Galson’s objections to Radcliff’s analysis and argument is more conceptual, and, among other things, he challenges the connection Radcliff seeks to establish between happiness and the satisfaction of human needs.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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