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- Title
Is everybody happy? The politics and measurement of national wellbeing.
- Authors
Tomlinson, Michael W.; Kelly, Grace P.
- Abstract
This article explores the political and intellectual influences behind the growth of interest in happiness and the emergence of the new 'science of happiness'. It offers a critique of the use of subjective wellbeing indicators within indexes of social and economic progress, and argues that the proposed United Kingdom's National Well-being Index is over-reliant on subjective measures. We conclude by arguing that the mainstreaming of happiness indicators reflects and supports the emergence of 'behavioural social policy'.
- Subjects
QUALITY of life measurement; HAPPINESS testing; QUALITY of life; SUBJECTIVE well-being (Psychology); SOCIAL policy; SOCIAL indicators; BRITISH social policy; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Policy & Politics, 2013, Vol 41, Issue 2, p139
- ISSN
0305-5736
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1332/030557312X655530