An Idea Whose Time has Come? Explaining the Rise of Well-Being in British Politics
An Idea Whose Time has Come? Explaining the Rise of Well-Being in British Politics
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DOI：
10.1111/1467-9248.12001
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发表时间：
2013-12-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Reardon, Louise
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作者：
Bache, Ian;Reardon, Louise
最近，福祉在英国和其他国家的政治议程中迅速上升，最明显的标志是首相卡梅隆在2010年宣布，国家统计局制定的福祉措施将用于指导公共政策。在这里，我们试图解释为什么幸福已经上升到英国的政治议程，借鉴金登的多流方法。虽然这一方法有相当大的优点，但它没有承认多层次治理的复杂性，在这种治理中，政策、政治和问题流可以在不同的领土层次上运作。因此，我们认为，政策，政治和问题流之间的匹配不仅是时间，而且空间。其结果是，虽然在衡量方面可能正在发生范式转变，但在决定性行动方面，在福祉被描述为一种时机已经到来的想法之前，还有一段路要走。
Well-being has recently risen rapidly up the political agenda in Britain and beyond, signalled most clearly by Prime Minister Cameron's announcement in 2010 that well-being measures developed by the Office for National Statistics would be used to guide public policies. Here we seek to explain why well-being has risen up the British political agenda, drawing on Kingdon's multiple streams approach. While this approach has considerable merit, it does not acknowledge the complexity of multi-level governance in which policy, politics and problem streams can operate at different territorial levels. As such, we argue that the match between policy, politics and problem streams has to be not only temporal, but also spatial. The consequence is that, while in relation to measurement a paradigm shift may be taking place, in terms of decisive action there is some way to go before well-being can be described as an idea whose time has come'.