Editors:
- Addresses wellbeing as a multidimensional phenomenon, which speaks to global challenges such as climate change, inequality and poverty
- Provides a theoretically grounded but accessible analysis of wellbeing and its relation to politics and policy
- Offers a distinctive contribution from the Politics discipline to the policy debate on wellbeing
Part of the book series: Wellbeing in Politics and Policy (WPP)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Wellbeing: A Force for Political Change?
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Front Matter
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Between Wellbeing Policy and Everyday Lives: Critical Perspectives
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Back Matter
About this book
This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage. Through a combination of intellectual inquiry, empirically-grounded research, and investigation across different settings, this book aims to provide fresh insights and develop new lenses through which to understand the rise and significance of the wellbeing agenda. Divided into three parts, it considers how to define wellbeing for public policy; the prospects for wellbeing as a force for political change; and the link between policy agendas and the everyday lives of people. The book explores the key political issues of power, democracy, and the legitimacy of wellbeing evidence in a range of settings – international, national and subnational/substate. The volume will appeal to wellbeing and politics scholars, as well as students and general readers with an interest in these new political agendas.
Keywords
- wellbeing and policy
- the wellbeing agenda
- hedonic and eudaimonic happiness
- social indicator movement
- social inequalities
- CMEPSP
- OECD Better Life index
- UN Sustainable Development Goals
- politics of wellbeing
- the Capabilities Approach
- Invention of Happiness
- Theory-neutral Approach
- subjective wellbeing
- progressives
- alternative wellbeing indicators
- societal wellbeing
- measuring wellbeing
- skivers strivers and thrivers
- education politics of wellbeing
- welfare reforms
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Ian Bache
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Department of Politics, University of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom
Karen Scott
About the editors
Ian Bache is Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Wellbeing in Public Policy at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Karen Scott is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Politics of Wellbeing
Book Subtitle: Theory, Policy and Practice
Editors: Ian Bache, Karen Scott
Series Title: Wellbeing in Politics and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58394-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58393-8Published: 16 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09630-4Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58394-5Published: 04 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2629-2394
Series E-ISSN: 2629-2408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 310
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Comparative Social Policy, Social Policy, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Political Sociology