Public Happiness, 1st ed. 2022 Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being Series
Auteur : Lee Seung Jong
We all strive for personal happiness in one way or another, but what about public happiness? What does public happiness mean and what role can governments and public policies play? The current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inadequacies of old governance paradigms and even before this pandemic, increasing inequalities and frustration with the old GDP-centric growth paradigm have fueled dissatisfaction with and distrust of governments. This book suggests a new path towards public happiness as a potential solution. The book builds a theory of public happiness as a distinct concept from individual happiness, borrowing especially from Eastern philosophy. It provides an overview of the efforts so far to go ?beyond GDP? ? including measurement and exploration of the determinants of happiness ? and how these efforts have fallen short of expectation. Lastly, the book sketches out what a public happiness policy might look like and identifies the factors of a successful happiness policy.
Seung Jong Lee is Professor Emeritus of the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University. He received his B.A. and M.P.A. from Seoul National University and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. His research interests include local governance, citizen participation and community well-being. He is Author of several books such as Theories of Local Autonomy: Politics and Policy (2003), Theories of Civic Participation (co-author, 2011), National Happiness and Government 3.0 (co-author, 2013), Theories of Local Autonomy Institutions (co-author, 2015), Quality of Life of 21st Century Local Residents (co-author, 1998) and Unfolding Korean Civil Society and Community Citizenship (co-author, 1997). He is also Co-editor of Community Well-Being and Community Development (with Rhonda Phillips, Springer, 2014), Issues of Local Autonomy (2014), and Government and Participation in Japanese and Korean Civil Society (with Yoshiaki Kobayashi, 2010). He has also published many articles in the field of local governance, civic participation and community well-being.
He served as President of the Korea Association for Public Administration and as Editor-in-Chiefs of several academic journals, including Korean Public Administration Review, Korean Policy Studies, Journal of Local Autonomy Studies and Journal of Local Administration. He leads the Community Well-being Institute—a research group founded under the Social Science Korea (SSK) initiative funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea. Recently, he is endowed a leading scholars grant from the National Research Foundation of Korea for the research “Governance Innovation in the ‘Beyond GDP’ Era”.He has actively participated in various governmental advisory positions, such a
Date de parution : 11-2022
Ouvrage de 225 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Date de parution : 11-2021
Ouvrage de 225 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Thèmes de Public Happiness :
Mots-clés :
Community Participation and Engagement; Trends in Happiness Research; Happiness-driven Public Policy; National Happiness Policy Around the World; Nature of Public Happiness; GDP Movement; Comparing Public and Individual Happiness; Increasing Public Happiness; Social Well-Being; Social Welfare; Happiness and Efforts of International Community
