Happiness Prospers in Democracy

By Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer. 2000

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Welfare Policy and Subjective Well-Being Across Nations: An Individual-Level Assessment (2008, background): “…quality of government (Helliwell and Huang 2005), size of government (Lapinski et al. 1998; Veenhoven 2000; Bjornskov et al. 2005), political participation (Frey and Stutzer 1999, 2002; and Dorn et al. 2007), partisanship and ideology (Di Tella and MacCulloch 2005; Lascher Jr. and Wassmer 2007).”
Direct democracy and life satisfaction revisited: new evidence for Switzerland (2008, background): “Previous studies by Frey and Stutzer (2000, 2000b) based on cross-section data from 1992 find the striking result that a higher degree of cantonal direct democracy significantly increases happiness.”
Development, Freedom, and Rising Happiness: A Global Perspective (1981–2007) (2008, background): “Inglehart (1990) found that happiness is strongly related to democracy (Barro, 1999; Frey & Stutzer, 2000; Inglehart & Klingemann, 2000).”
Beyond Money (2004, background): “Furthermore, Frey and Stutzer (2002b) reported that the same income in the United States, adjusted for inflation, bought more happiness in 1973 than in 1995.”
Positive psychology: Past, present, and (possible) future (2006, background): “Economists have become interested in the subject of human happiness (e.g., Frey & Stutzer, 2000; Layard, 2005), and this is even filtering through to government interest (Donovan & Halpern, 2002).”
Living, and thinking about it: two perspectives on life (2005, background): “It plays a particularly important role in the common practice of using both national differences and individual differences in accounts of individual well-being (Diener and Seligman 2004; Diener and Suh 1999; Frey and Stutzer 2000; Helliwe1l2003; Layard 2005).”
Healthy happiness: effects of happiness on physical health and the consequences for preventive health care (2008, unknown): “This deduction is supported by the fact that in democratic and happy Switzerland happiness appears to be highest in the cantons where the threshold for referenda is lowest (Frey & Stutzer, 2000).”
Income and Well-being (2002, background): “See, for example, the economists Clark (1997, 1999), Clark and Oswald (1994, 1996), DiTella et al. (2001), Easterlin (1974, 1995, 2000, 2001), Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Frijters (2004), Ferrer-i-Carbonell and van Praag (2001, 2002), Frey and Stutzer (1999, 2000a, 2000b) , Frijters (2000), Frijters et ”
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number (2010, unknown): “Illustrative in this vein is that in Switzerland, average happiness was found to be somewhat higher in the cantons, where the threshold for referenda is lowest (Frey & Stutzer, 2000).”