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Wellbeing and DevolutionIntroduction

Wellbeing and Devolution: Introduction [This chapter reviews the main philosophical debates pertaining to wellbeing, drawing a key distinction between personal wellbeing (living well) and societal wellbeing (living well together). The author explores how these translate into measures of social progress and the social indicators movement that has developed since the 1980s to include broader measures of progress than take into account inequalities and reflect the importance of sustainable development. She charts a parallel development of public performance measurement which has, in a similar timeframe, moved away from targets and indicators towards a deeper understanding of outcomes for citizens. Wellbeing frameworks, Wallace argues, must be seen as attempts by devolved legislatures to provide a broad measure of social progress and to hold themselves accountable for progress towards agreed social outcomes. ] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Wellbeing and DevolutionIntroduction

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019. This book is an open access publication.
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978-3-030-02229-7
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1 –31
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-02230-3_1
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Abstract

[This chapter reviews the main philosophical debates pertaining to wellbeing, drawing a key distinction between personal wellbeing (living well) and societal wellbeing (living well together). The author explores how these translate into measures of social progress and the social indicators movement that has developed since the 1980s to include broader measures of progress than take into account inequalities and reflect the importance of sustainable development. She charts a parallel development of public performance measurement which has, in a similar timeframe, moved away from targets and indicators towards a deeper understanding of outcomes for citizens. Wellbeing frameworks, Wallace argues, must be seen as attempts by devolved legislatures to provide a broad measure of social progress and to hold themselves accountable for progress towards agreed social outcomes. ]

Published: Dec 5, 2018

Keywords: Wellbeing; Life satisfaction; Social progress; GDP; Devolution; Outcomes

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