Politics and Quality of Life

The Role of Well-Being in Political Outcomes

  • Ryan M. Yonk
  • Josh T. Smith
Book

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Political Science book series (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Quality of Life Studies; Our Dulling and Rusting Tools
    Ryan M. Yonk, Josh T. Smith
    Pages 1-6
  3. Understanding Quality of Life
    Ryan M. Yonk, Josh T. Smith
    Pages 7-16
  4. Exploring the Components of Our Quality of Life Index
    Ryan M. Yonk, Josh T. Smith
    Pages 17-34
  5. Constructing a Measure of Well-Being
    Ryan M. Yonk, Josh T. Smith
    Pages 35-50
  6. Quality of Life in Theory and Practice
    Ryan M. Yonk, Josh T. Smith
    Pages 51-63
  7. Quality of Life and Trust
    Ryan M. Yonk, Josh T. Smith
    Pages 65-75
  8. Quality of Life and Direct Democracy
    Ryan M. Yonk, Josh T. Smith
    Pages 77-86
  9. Local Tax Ballot Measures and Quality of Life
    Ryan M. Yonk, Josh T. Smith
    Pages 87-97
  10. Federal Spending and Quality of Life
    Ryan M. Yonk, Josh T. Smith
    Pages 99-104
  11. Using Quality of Life in Public Policy
    Ryan M. Yonk, Josh T. Smith
    Pages 105-109
  12. Back Matter
    Pages 111-133
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About this book

Introduction

Keywords

public policy quality of life data collection politics socio-political

Authors and affiliations

  • Ryan M. Yonk
    • 1
  • Josh T. Smith
    • 2
  1. 1.Utah State UniversityLoganUSA
  2. 2.Utah State UniversityLoganUSA

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72571-0
  • Copyright Information Springer International Publishing AG 2018
  • Publisher Name Springer, Cham
  • eBook Packages Political Science and International Studies
  • Print ISBN 978-3-319-72570-3
  • Online ISBN 978-3-319-72571-0
  • Series Print ISSN 2191-5466
  • Series Online ISSN 2191-5474
  • About this book