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The Politics of Wellbeing Reconciling Universal Frameworks and Local Realities in Understanding and Measuring Wellbeing

The Politics of Wellbeing : Reconciling Universal Frameworks and Local Realities in Understanding... [Many recent initiatives to measure human wellbeing at national and international levels draw on universalist frameworks that propose what human wellbeing consists of. There is also an important counter tendency in this global movement that sees human wellbeing thinking as a place to explore and express differences in cultural and social identities. There is a need for greater clarity about how we might reconcile universalist and localist approaches to wellbeing and this chapter argues that this may be achieved by distinguishing the different public policy and governance purposes that wellbeing measurement initiatives seek to address. The conclusion discusses the dangers of imposing particular universalist conceptions and assuming away critical differences between competing conceptions of wellbeing and methodologies for assessing it.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Politics of Wellbeing Reconciling Universal Frameworks and Local Realities in Understanding and Measuring Wellbeing

Part of the Wellbeing in Politics and Policy Book Series
Editors: Bache, Ian; Scott, Karen
McGregor, J. Allister
The Politics of Wellbeing — Jul 5, 2018
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
ISBN
978-3-319-58393-8
Pages
197 –224
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-58394-5_9
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Abstract

[Many recent initiatives to measure human wellbeing at national and international levels draw on universalist frameworks that propose what human wellbeing consists of. There is also an important counter tendency in this global movement that sees human wellbeing thinking as a place to explore and express differences in cultural and social identities. There is a need for greater clarity about how we might reconcile universalist and localist approaches to wellbeing and this chapter argues that this may be achieved by distinguishing the different public policy and governance purposes that wellbeing measurement initiatives seek to address. The conclusion discusses the dangers of imposing particular universalist conceptions and assuming away critical differences between competing conceptions of wellbeing and methodologies for assessing it.]

Published: Jul 5, 2018

Keywords: Buen Vivir; Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS); Public policyPublic Policy; Well-being Data; OECD Framework

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