I am planning to write a book titled "Public Policy For Happy People: Beyond Happy Cows" in which i would like to argue that the normative basis of public policy must be "happiness" rather than "GDP". This is in line with current debates about anti-gdp movement (although happiness) and rising happiness/quality of life/life satisfaction indices. However, i am disturbed by the fact that when the governments want to make their citizens happy, it is mostly because to make them more productive (if they are not concerned about upcoming elections). Is there any studies which you can reccomend that deals with happinness as a policy goal, and in specific, a study which concentrates on happiness as an end in itself rather than an instrument to increase productivity.
this link is useful
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Perhaps at some future point in time when some other problems are answered, such as poverty and starvation.
Dennis
Dennis Mazur
Hi Serkan, interesting question! Maybe you can look for some research on gross national happiness in Bhutan. For example, O'brien, C. (2008). Sustainable happiness: How happiness studies can contribute to a more sustainable future. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne, 49(4), 289. All the best
Lisa
Thank you Lisa, I have found some papers and reports about Bhutan's Gross National Hapiness. I think this is one of the sourcs that inspired the UN. I will check O'brien's paper, thanks for that.
Check this link is useful
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/rechtswissenschaft/oeffentliches-recht/graser/medien/duncan_2010_ms_1.pdf
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Dear H. Serkan Akilli , interesting and debatable issue.
Recent social surveys of happiness (subjective well-being) have given a new stimulus to utilitarian political theory by providing a statistically reliable measure of the ‘happiness’ of individuals that can then be correlated with other variables. One general finding is that greater happiness does not correlate strongly with increased wealth, beyond modest levels, and this has led to calls for governments to shift priorities away from economic growth and towards other social values.
Dear Dr. H. Serkan Akilli , I have got a research article " Should happiness-maximization be the goal of government?" and please have a look in to it. I hope it will help you much. Good Luck!!!!
this link is useful
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2372732214548427
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Not until there is a more equal distribution of wealth across nations.
Dennis
Dennis Mazur
Thank you very much Hassan, the article you recommend will be useful.
Thanks Beemnet, Khalid has recommended that article too. It is a good work.
I think happiness is relative. Though it may be the ultimate goal but how do we measure individual or national happiness? If there is improvement in health and health care facilities in terms of access and affordability, improved accessible and affordable energy, housing, sanitation, education, and reduced inequality, injustice and oppression I think people can be happy, but some people are happy when the masses suffer and are impoverished, especially in LDCs
Yes, I agree with this approach. Public policy, including social policy should ultimately aim to meet the needs of citizens. In countries where a prosocial democratic system works efficiently and thus the participation of citizens in shaping public policy enables the design and implementation of such public policy as citizens and voters expect. However, not always planned as a pro-social public policy is properly conducted by the government. This can happen in the situation of the emergence of a significant global recession, i.e. a strong slowdown in the economic growth of the global economy, which has a significant negative impact on economic processes in a given country. However, the extent to which economic growth will slow down in a given country depends on many national factors, such as the level of public debt of state finances and the deficit in the central budget of the state. In addition, the level of national productivity, investment, unemployment, citizens' income, consumption, inflation, interest rates, etc., which directly and indirectly determine the financial, material, housing etc. of the citizen, is also important. The state, having the instruments of pro-development economic policy, tries to activate economic processes, activate entrepreneurship, innovation, investments, etc. so that the economy develops effectively and citizens receive high remuneration, to improve the material and financial situation of citizens, etc. this is what citizens expect and in a country with a democratic system they choose a government that implements just such a plan to shape pro-development socio-economic policy to build a state of economic and social well-being. In a state of economic and social well-being, citizens should feel happy. In the publications available on the Research Gate portal I described the instruments of pro-development socio-economic policy on the example of the Family 500 Plus Program and the Flat Plus Program (Flat Plus Program). I invite you to cooperate in the study of this issue.
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Dariusz Prokopowicz
I think that's the ultimate goal. But between the objective and reality there are large distances
Yes, indeed! Public happiness and satisfaction are really important.
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