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HAPPINESS IN PUBLIC POLICYA step by step guide based on experience in the happiness movement
Hosted by
Laura Musikanski
Executive Director
happycounts.org
Panelists:
John Helliwell
ON PARTNERSHIPS
Rhonda Phillips
ON THE HAPPINESS POLICY HANDBOOK
Jean Crowder
ON HURDLES
Lester Kurtz
ON SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Michael Moser
ON MEASURING HAPPINESS
Stefano Bartolini
ON FOUR POLICIES
SCHEDULE ONE-ON-ONE
CONVERSATIONS WITH SELECT
PANELISTS AT THE HAPPINESS
ALLIANCE BOOTH
National well-being strategies should
โ€ข Support official collection of happiness data
โ€ข Reform cost/benefit analysis
โ€ข Give subjective well-being a central umbrella role
โ€ข Facilitate bottom-up happiness innovations
โ€ข Use Partnerships for Happiness to bridge silos
โ€ข Thatโ€™s enough for seven minutes- Thank You
From surveys to sidewalks
How subjective well-being can inform roadmaps
to national well-being
The Happiness Policy
Handbook: How to Make
Happiness the Purpose of Your
Government
By Laura Musikanski, Rhonda Phillips, and Jean Crowder
Available soon for pre-orders from
New Society Publishing
See happycounts.org/happinesspolicy
Provides:
Policy-makers, community
organizers, and others the
means to join the happiness
movement and make a vital
difference so that all people
have equal opportunities to
pursue happiness.
โ€œNot Giving Happiness, But Giving Fundamental and Equal
Conditions of Happiness for Allโ€
A clear, accessible and cohesive guide with two sections:
โ€ข Context, history, and
trajectory
โ€ข (โ€œour inalienable right to the
pursuit of happinessโ€)
โ€ข What happiness policy is and
why it matters
โ€ข The happiness โ€“ sustainability
connection
โ€ข Action plans that can be
adapted and adopted to fit
the area and situation by
any level policy-maker
โ€ข Happiness proclamations
โ€ข Community engagement
โ€ข Measuring happiness
And explanations, forms, and toolsโ€ฆ
โ€ข Happiness Policy Screening
Tool
โ€ข Social Media Guide
โ€ข Happiness Surveys
โ€ข Happiness Index Questions
โ€ข Happiness Policy Screening
Tool
Jean Crowder, former Member of Parliament Canada
โ€œThe definition of insanity is doing the same thing over
and over again but expecting different results.โ€
Solutions:
โ€ข Get local
communities to lead
โ€ข Learn how to lobby
effectively
โ€ข Use Media โ€“ Digital
and Traditional
โ€ข Interest a key
decision maker
โ€ข Grassroots for
campaigns
Mobilizing for
Happiness
Lester R. Kurtz
George Mason University
Korea
OECD WORLD FORUM 2018
- See also Kurtz, โ€œShifting
Economic Paradigms, Mobilizing a
Movementโ€ prepare for the UN
Meeting on Happiness and
Wellbing
https://works.bepress.com/lester_kur
tz/45/
ยฉ2018 Lester Kurtz email: lkurtz@gmu.edu
Mobilizing a
Movement:
- Listen
- Analyze
- Mobilize
Listen-Analyze
- Ascertain causes &
consequences: social
epidemiology
- Look for opportunities for
- Fair Distribution
- Sustainability
Galtung, Johan. โ€œCultural Violence.โ€ Journal of Peace Research 27, no. 3 (1990):
291โ€“305.
Kurtz, Lester R. โ€œFighting Violence against Women: A Toolkit.โ€ In Women, War,
and Violence: Topography, Resistance, and Hope [2 Vols]. edited by Mariam M.
Kurtz and Lester R. Kurtz. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger, 2015.
Mobilize with Nonviolence
"Which way of life is the more
desirable - to join with other citizens
and share in the state's activity, or
to live in it like an alien, absolved
from the ties of political society?"
Aristotle, Politics
Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan, Why Civil Resistance Works. Columbia University Press,2011
Effects of campaign membership on the probability of success (Chenoweth & Stefan
2011): Every national campaign 1900-2006 with 3.5% participation succeeded
Klar & Kasser:
Activismโ†’ Higher
Wellbeing
Klar, Malte, and Tim Kasser. โ€œSome
Benefits of Being an Activist:
Measuring Activism and Its Role in
Psychological Well-Being.โ€
Political Psychology 30, no. 5
(2009): 755โ€“77.
Role of Policy Makers
Listen: See resistance movements as allies,
โž” Institutionalize communication
channels
โž” Hear grievances with empathy
โž” Measure objective and subjective
measures of wellbeing as official policy
Analyze: What policies can promote Gross
Global Happiness & Wellbeing?
Mobilize: Act on findings, implement pro-
happiness policies, resist when necessary
Applying Wellbeing Indicators
The Vermont, USA Case Study
Michael Moser
Wellbeing Indicators in Vermont
โ€ข Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
โ€ข Codified in Vermont Government Bylaws & Processes
โ€ข Gross National Happiness Index (GNH)
โ€ข Data Collection and Inclusion in Metrics Work
Factors Influencing Adoption
โ€ข Small, Homogenous, Liberal, Civic-minded Population
โ€ข Accessible Government Officials and Processes
โ€ข Strong Leadership and Follow-through
โ€ข Trusted Voices that Help Deliver the Messaging
โ€ข Available Data
Michael Moser, Research Specialist and Program Coordinator, University of Vermont.
mmoser@uvm.edu
This is a Collaboration
M
What matters for happiness?
โ€ข Relationships matter a
lot
โ€ข Money? It matters little and mostly at low income
levels
Policies for happiness
Changing:
โ€ข urban life
โ€ข advertising
โ€ข working life
โ€ข schooling
โ€ข health care
Changing cities
For 5000 years, cities
have been built as a
place where people
could meet
Then cars arrived โ€ฆ.
The relational city
โ€ข Where cars play a less dominant role people are
happier and have more relationships.
โ€ข Pedestrian areas, parks,
sport centers,
walkability, car
restrictions, public
transport, cycling.
Changing schools
Students are taught:
โ€ข Time to perform is not time for well-being
โ€ข Competition
โ€ข To focus on cognitive intelligence
Reducing advertising
โ€ข Ban tv-ads targeting children
โ€ข Heavy taxation on advertising
Changing work experience
Incentives
Unsustainable health care
Results from epidemiology
Happiness plays a
dominant role in the
health of individuals
and populations
HAPPINESS IN PUBLIC POLICYA step by step guide based on experience in the happiness movement
happycounts.org
Rhonda Phillips
Jean Crowder
Laura Musikanski
ON THE HAPPINESS POLICY HANDBOOK
Lester Kurtz
ON SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Michael Moser
ON MEASURING HAPPINESS
Stefano Bartolini
ON FOUR POLICIES
SCHEDULE ONE-ON-ONE
CONVERSATIONS WITH SELECT
PANELISTS AT THE HAPPINESS
ALLIANCE BOOTH

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Happiness in Public Policy OECD Panel Presentations

  • 1. HAPPINESS IN PUBLIC POLICYA step by step guide based on experience in the happiness movement Hosted by Laura Musikanski Executive Director happycounts.org Panelists: John Helliwell ON PARTNERSHIPS Rhonda Phillips ON THE HAPPINESS POLICY HANDBOOK Jean Crowder ON HURDLES Lester Kurtz ON SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Michael Moser ON MEASURING HAPPINESS Stefano Bartolini ON FOUR POLICIES SCHEDULE ONE-ON-ONE CONVERSATIONS WITH SELECT PANELISTS AT THE HAPPINESS ALLIANCE BOOTH
  • 2. National well-being strategies should โ€ข Support official collection of happiness data โ€ข Reform cost/benefit analysis โ€ข Give subjective well-being a central umbrella role โ€ข Facilitate bottom-up happiness innovations โ€ข Use Partnerships for Happiness to bridge silos โ€ข Thatโ€™s enough for seven minutes- Thank You From surveys to sidewalks How subjective well-being can inform roadmaps to national well-being
  • 3. The Happiness Policy Handbook: How to Make Happiness the Purpose of Your Government By Laura Musikanski, Rhonda Phillips, and Jean Crowder Available soon for pre-orders from New Society Publishing See happycounts.org/happinesspolicy
  • 4. Provides: Policy-makers, community organizers, and others the means to join the happiness movement and make a vital difference so that all people have equal opportunities to pursue happiness. โ€œNot Giving Happiness, But Giving Fundamental and Equal Conditions of Happiness for Allโ€
  • 5. A clear, accessible and cohesive guide with two sections: โ€ข Context, history, and trajectory โ€ข (โ€œour inalienable right to the pursuit of happinessโ€) โ€ข What happiness policy is and why it matters โ€ข The happiness โ€“ sustainability connection โ€ข Action plans that can be adapted and adopted to fit the area and situation by any level policy-maker โ€ข Happiness proclamations โ€ข Community engagement โ€ข Measuring happiness
  • 6. And explanations, forms, and toolsโ€ฆ โ€ข Happiness Policy Screening Tool โ€ข Social Media Guide โ€ข Happiness Surveys โ€ข Happiness Index Questions โ€ข Happiness Policy Screening Tool
  • 7. Jean Crowder, former Member of Parliament Canada โ€œThe definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.โ€
  • 8. Solutions: โ€ข Get local communities to lead โ€ข Learn how to lobby effectively โ€ข Use Media โ€“ Digital and Traditional โ€ข Interest a key decision maker โ€ข Grassroots for campaigns
  • 9. Mobilizing for Happiness Lester R. Kurtz George Mason University Korea OECD WORLD FORUM 2018 - See also Kurtz, โ€œShifting Economic Paradigms, Mobilizing a Movementโ€ prepare for the UN Meeting on Happiness and Wellbing https://works.bepress.com/lester_kur tz/45/ ยฉ2018 Lester Kurtz email: lkurtz@gmu.edu
  • 10. Mobilizing a Movement: - Listen - Analyze - Mobilize
  • 11. Listen-Analyze - Ascertain causes & consequences: social epidemiology - Look for opportunities for - Fair Distribution - Sustainability Galtung, Johan. โ€œCultural Violence.โ€ Journal of Peace Research 27, no. 3 (1990): 291โ€“305. Kurtz, Lester R. โ€œFighting Violence against Women: A Toolkit.โ€ In Women, War, and Violence: Topography, Resistance, and Hope [2 Vols]. edited by Mariam M. Kurtz and Lester R. Kurtz. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger, 2015.
  • 12. Mobilize with Nonviolence "Which way of life is the more desirable - to join with other citizens and share in the state's activity, or to live in it like an alien, absolved from the ties of political society?" Aristotle, Politics
  • 13. Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan, Why Civil Resistance Works. Columbia University Press,2011
  • 14. Effects of campaign membership on the probability of success (Chenoweth & Stefan 2011): Every national campaign 1900-2006 with 3.5% participation succeeded
  • 15. Klar & Kasser: Activismโ†’ Higher Wellbeing Klar, Malte, and Tim Kasser. โ€œSome Benefits of Being an Activist: Measuring Activism and Its Role in Psychological Well-Being.โ€ Political Psychology 30, no. 5 (2009): 755โ€“77.
  • 16. Role of Policy Makers Listen: See resistance movements as allies, โž” Institutionalize communication channels โž” Hear grievances with empathy โž” Measure objective and subjective measures of wellbeing as official policy Analyze: What policies can promote Gross Global Happiness & Wellbeing? Mobilize: Act on findings, implement pro- happiness policies, resist when necessary
  • 17. Applying Wellbeing Indicators The Vermont, USA Case Study Michael Moser
  • 18. Wellbeing Indicators in Vermont โ€ข Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) โ€ข Codified in Vermont Government Bylaws & Processes โ€ข Gross National Happiness Index (GNH) โ€ข Data Collection and Inclusion in Metrics Work
  • 19. Factors Influencing Adoption โ€ข Small, Homogenous, Liberal, Civic-minded Population โ€ข Accessible Government Officials and Processes โ€ข Strong Leadership and Follow-through โ€ข Trusted Voices that Help Deliver the Messaging โ€ข Available Data
  • 20. Michael Moser, Research Specialist and Program Coordinator, University of Vermont. mmoser@uvm.edu This is a Collaboration M
  • 21. What matters for happiness? โ€ข Relationships matter a lot โ€ข Money? It matters little and mostly at low income levels
  • 22. Policies for happiness Changing: โ€ข urban life โ€ข advertising โ€ข working life โ€ข schooling โ€ข health care
  • 23. Changing cities For 5000 years, cities have been built as a place where people could meet Then cars arrived โ€ฆ.
  • 24. The relational city โ€ข Where cars play a less dominant role people are happier and have more relationships. โ€ข Pedestrian areas, parks, sport centers, walkability, car restrictions, public transport, cycling.
  • 25. Changing schools Students are taught: โ€ข Time to perform is not time for well-being โ€ข Competition โ€ข To focus on cognitive intelligence
  • 26. Reducing advertising โ€ข Ban tv-ads targeting children โ€ข Heavy taxation on advertising
  • 29. Results from epidemiology Happiness plays a dominant role in the health of individuals and populations
  • 30. HAPPINESS IN PUBLIC POLICYA step by step guide based on experience in the happiness movement happycounts.org Rhonda Phillips Jean Crowder Laura Musikanski ON THE HAPPINESS POLICY HANDBOOK Lester Kurtz ON SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Michael Moser ON MEASURING HAPPINESS Stefano Bartolini ON FOUR POLICIES SCHEDULE ONE-ON-ONE CONVERSATIONS WITH SELECT PANELISTS AT THE HAPPINESS ALLIANCE BOOTH