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. …

Case studies across the social sciences have established a positive relationship between social status and happiness …-shaped relation between status and happiness. The same trend is much less pronounced in data on 1000 individuals living in the state …