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Sense and Solidarities: Politics and Human Well-Being

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Well-Being

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Aspirations for politics in the West have recently moved from focusing mainly on deterring invasion, promoting economic growth, alleviating sickness and destitution and containing class conflict, to wider concerns often called ‘well-being’. Governments are expected to care not just about the standard of living, but the quality of life in work, careers, retirement, residential communities, health, and in the experience of public services.

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Perri Six (2007). Sense and Solidarities: Politics and Human Well-Being. In: Haworth, J., Hart, G. (eds) Well-Being. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287624_8

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