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Transforming by Metrics that Matter - Progress, Participation, and the National Initiatives of Fixing Well-Being Indicators
Transformation durch Zahlen, die zählen - Fortschritt, Partizipation und die nationalen Initiativen zur Festlegung von Wohlfahrtsindikatoren
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Abstract The goal of governments is to enhance the well-being of their citizens. In the aftermath of World War II, national product (be it gross national or gross domestic) and its rate of growth were seen as a proxy indicator to measure well-being – making economic growth doubtless the most powerful politic... mehr
The goal of governments is to enhance the well-being of their citizens. In the aftermath of World War II, national product (be it gross national or gross domestic) and its rate of growth were seen as a proxy indicator to measure well-being – making economic growth doubtless the most powerful political indicator in history. Yet, in light of the negative effects of growth such as climate change and due to methodological progress in measuring well-being or happiness, governments have begun to reconsider the belief that growth automatically leads to improved well-being. The Sustainable Development Goals of 2015 underline a universal desire to “transform our world” and the fact that this transformation is to be done with the help of alternative statistical indicators. In the last decade, a number of national governments have embarked on a largely unnoticed, but revolutionary OECD-driven endeavor: to fix national alternative measures of well-being “beyond GDP”, to decide in a participatory manner which indicators matter to people and to discuss which new or adapted notion of progress is valid in the 21st century. This paper will highlight a number of these national cases and analyze the context in which these initiatives evolved. It will be shown that although revolutionary in their aspirations, many initiatives do not live up to their expectations. This has to do with the manner in which they were executed, with the political unwillingness to really consider alternatives to GDP and to allow broad participation. But it might also show that the expectations regarding the power of indicators to guide policies might be exaggerated.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Theorie; Fortschritt; politische Aktivität; Wachstum; Lebensqualität; politische Entwicklung; Glück; Wohlfahrt; Indikatorenbildung; Wohlbefinden; Messung; Indikatorenforschung
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
Freie Schlagwörter
Indicators; Alternative Measures of Well-Being; Progress; Participation; Beyond GDP
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 288-312
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 44 (2019) 2
Heftthema
Governing by Numbers - Key Indicators and the Politics of Expectations
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)