The Case for Wellbeing as the Goal of Government and Constraints on Policy-making

P. Frijters, Christian Krekel
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The first chapter is targeted at readers who are interested in the general push to include subjective wellbeing in governments’ policy-making institutions. It discusses the origin of the idea that governments should care about wellbeing; how wellbeing is already incorporated in many policy evaluations and appraisals; how a wellbeing-oriented bureaucracy fits in with the democratic process; and how the realities of policy-making often limit the use of formal wellbeing analyses and give rise to the importance of general knowledge about wellbeing amongst all decision-makers. To begin with, the chapter gives a quick synopsis of the basic vision at the heart of this book: what ‘more wellbeing’ would mean for policy-making and what steps would need to be taken to realize it. It is this basic vision which will unfold in the different chapters that follow and which forms the book’s basic motivation. The chapter ends with a quick overview of the institutional trajectory yet to be undertaken to have wellbeing policy embedded in the government machinery.
福利作为政府目标的案例与政策制定的制约
第一章针对的是那些对将主观幸福感纳入政府决策机构的普遍推动感兴趣的读者。它讨论了政府应该关心福祉这一想法的起源;福祉如何已被纳入许多政策评估和评估;以福利为导向的官僚机构如何适应民主进程;政策制定的现实往往限制了正式福利分析的使用,并使所有决策者对福利的一般知识变得重要。首先,本章简要介绍了本书核心的基本愿景:“更多的福祉”对政策制定意味着什么,需要采取哪些步骤来实现这一目标。这一基本愿景将在接下来的不同章节中展开,并形成本书的基本动机。本章最后快速概述了将福利政策纳入政府机制尚待采取的制度轨迹。
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