choice analyses can inform and inspire happiness research on issues related to public policy. In particular, happiness … democratic competition. However, the happiness approach also has clear limitations if it is understood as a decision rule for … good policy and the interaction between citizens and the government is reduced to monitoring reported happiness. …

consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …