How's Your Government? International Evidence Linking Good Government and Well-Being

By John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang. British Journal of Political Science, 2008

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Viewpoint: Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being (2010, unknown): “that explain differences among individuals within the same country, along with other measures of the quality of the national social and institutional fabric (Helliwell and Huang 2008), there is scope for explaining international differences in”
Income Inequality and Happiness (2011, background): “The small amount of existing research on this relationship has exclusively focused on cross-national (Berg & Veenhoven, 2010; Diener, Diener, & Diener, 1995; Helliwell & Huang, 2008), cross-state (Alesina, DiTella, & MacCulloch, 2004), or cross-city comparisons (Hagerty, 2000).”
Mapping the Regional Divide in Europe: A Measure for Assessing Quality of Government in 206 European Regions (2014, background): “2002), lower levels of happiness (Veenhoven 2010), and lower overall subjective well-being (Samanni and Holmberg 2010; Helliwell and Huang 2008).”
Shareholder Wealth Maximization and Social Welfare: A Utilitarian Critique (2013, background): “Moreover, Helliwell and Huang (2008) argue that even in poor countries, the wealth to happiness relationship is considerably weakened when the effects of political variables such as corruption, civil liberties, and political stability are statistically taken into account.”
Good Governance and Happiness in Nations: Technical Quality Precedes Democracy and Quality Beats Size (2010, background): “Helliwell and Huang (2008) found that the ‘‘GovDo-elements’’ are relatively more important for poor nations, while the ‘‘GovDem-elements’’ are relatively more important for wealthier nations.”
Happiness and Leisure Across Countries: Evidence from International Survey Data (2013, background): “Based on interview data of 6,000 residents in Switzerland, the authors find that development of direct democracy has a positive coefficient in individual happiness regressions (see also Helliwell and Huang 2008).”
The environmental efficiency of well-being: A cross-national analysis (2011, background): “To avoid the main limitations of the approaches above we devised a measure of EWEB that takes into account the subjective well-being and EFs of countries without the limitations inherent in a ratio measure.”
Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being (2010, background): “Helliwell (2008) argued that this difference provides a primary reason for preferring the remembered to the experienced measure in cases where the two differ.”
International Happiness: A New View on the Measure of Performance (2011, background): “…2009; Helliwell, 2003; Whiteley, Clarke, Sanders, & Stewart, 2010), high levels of democracy and democratic participation (Frey & Stutzer, 2000; Helliwell & Huang, 2008), high trust (Hudson, 2006), strong welfare states and public spending (Di Tella et al., 2003; Kotakorpi & Laamen, 2010;…”