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urn:uuid:91d4af40-32df-4d43-835b-248f429e81f2 03 01 01 urn:uuid:91d4af40-32df-4d43-835b-248f429e81f2 15 9781909890824 06 10.31389/lsepress.well 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Wellbeing Alternative Policy Perspectives 1 B01 21 0000-0002-8923-6372 Timothy Besley 2 A01 Irene Bucelli First edition. 01 eng 00 218 03 B2 Economics 10 HEA055000 12 JF 12 JKS B2 Philosophy 10 PSY000000 12 JMAL 10 PHI000000 B2 Psychology 12 JPA B2 Public health B2 Public policy 01 06 03 00 <p>Governments in liberal democracies pursue social welfare, but in many different ways. The wellbeing approach instead asks: Why not focus directly on increasing measured human happiness? Why not try to improve people’s overall quality of life, as it is subjectively seen by citizens themselves?</p><p>The radical implications of this stance include shifting attention to previously neglected areas (such as mental health and ‘social infrastructure’ services) and developing defensible measures of overall wellbeing or quality of life indicators. Can one ‘master’ concept of wellbeing work to create more holism in policy-making? Or should we stick with multiple metrics? These debates have been live in relation to an alternative ‘capacities’ approaches, and they are well-developed in health policymaking. Most recently, the connections between wellbeing and political participation have come into sharper focus.</p><p>Wellbeing remains a contested concept, one that can be interpreted and used differently, with consequences for how it is incorporated into policy decisions. By bringing together scholars from economics, psychology and behavioural science, philosophy and political science, the authors explore how different disciplinary approaches can contribute to the study of wellbeing and how this can shape policy priorities.</p> 04 00 1. Introduction: Making Wellbeing Policies Effective Timothy Besley and Irene Bucelli 2. Wellbeing as the Goal of Policy Richard Layard 3. Accounting for Consequences and Claims in Policy Paul Dolan 4. Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Public Policy: On the Dangers of Single Metric Accounting Johanna Thoma 5. Wellbeing in Public Policy: Contributions Based on Sen’s Capability Approach Paul Anand 6. Incorporating Wellbeing and Mental Health Research to Improve Pandemic Response Michael Daly and Liam Delaney 7. COVID-19 and Mental Health and Wellbeing Research: Informing Targeted, Integrated, and Long-Term Responses to Health Emergencies Annette Bauer 8. Health, Wellbeing, and Democratic Citizenship: A Review and Research Agenda Christopher J. Anderson, Sara Hagemann, and Robert Klemmensen 9. Health and Disability Gaps in Political Engagement: A Short Review Mikko Mattila 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 01 20220830 2022 06 15 9781909890824 06 15 9781909890824 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.well.pdf 99 01 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/lsepress.well 99 01