Well-Being in Contemporary Society
Well-Being in Contemporary Society
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当代社会的福祉
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10.1007/978-3-319-06459-8_11
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2015
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Bache I
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Bache I
衡量生活质量最近在一系列政治舞台上迅速上升到政治议程上。在英国，首相戴维·卡梅伦在2010年11月宣布，福利措施将用于公共政策目的，这是最明确的信号。在欧洲联盟方面，欧盟委员会2009年向欧洲理事会和欧洲议会、国内生产总值及其他方面发出的信函表明了这一转变，其中提出了一个路线图，其中包括五项关键行动，以改进衡量进展情况的指标。这些举措，以及其他国内和国际事态发展，表明了人们对GDP增长作为衡量社会进步的主导指标的不满，并表明，至少在某些方面，关注生活质量的想法已经到来。本章试图解释这个问题如何以及为什么会被提上英国和欧盟的政治议程，借鉴金登的多流议程设置方法。本章共分六节。第11.2节概述了比较议程设置的方法，区分了金登的三个活动流-政策、政治和问题。第11.3节讨论了衡量生活质量对当前政治关切的历史背景，确定了具有鲜明特征的两个浪潮。第11.4节涉及英国的案件，第11.5节涉及欧盟的案件。第11.6节在论文结束前对英国和欧盟的发展进行了比较分析。
Measuring quality of life has recently risen rapidly up the political agenda in a range of political arenas. In Britain this was signalled most clearly by Prime Minister David Cameron’s announcement in November 2010 that well-being measures would be used for public policy purposes. In the European Union context this shift was indicated by a Commission communication to the Council and European Parliament in 2009, GDP and Beyond , which sets out a roadmap with five key actions to improve the indicators for measuring progress. These initiatives, along with other national and international developments, signal discontent with GDP growth as the dominant measure of societal progress and suggest that in some respects at least, concern with measuring quality of life is an idea whose time has come. This chapter seeks to explain how and why this issue has risen up the political agenda in Britain and the EU , drawing on Kingdon’s multiple streams approach to agenda-setting . The chapter has six sections. Section 11.2 outlines the approach to comparing agenda-setting, distinguishing between Kingdon’s three ‘streams’ of activity—policies, politics and problems. Section 11.3 discusses the historical background to current political concerns with measuring quality of life, identifying two waves that have distinct characteristics. Section 11.4 turns to the case of Britain and Sect. 11.5 to that of the EU. Section 11.6 provides a comparative analysis of developments in the UK and EU before the paper concludes.