This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage. Through a combination of intellectual inquiry, empirica
Government interest in wellbeing as an explicit goal of public policy has increased significantly in recent years, leading to new developments in measuring well
Describes the principal findings of happiness researchers, assesses the strengths and weaknesses of such research, and looks at how governments could use result
The Politics of Well-Being argues that the relationship between well-being and ethical life has been overlooked. The more specific argument of the book is that
This book analyses the role of evidence in taking wellbeing from an issue that has government attention to one that leads to significant policy change. In doing