Politics of Gross National Happiness Governance and Development in Bhutan /

• Main Author: Schroeder, Kent (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Asia-Politics and government.; Political science.; Economic policy.; Ethnology-Asia.; Cultural policy.; Economic development.; Social change.; Asian Politics.; Governance and Government.; Development Policy.; Asian Culture.; Cultural Policy and Politics.; Development and Social Change.

This book explores the practices of governance in Bhutan and how they shape the implementation of the country's Gross National Happiness (GNH) development strategy. The author examines whether Bhutan's innovative GNH governance framework successfully navigates competing power dynamics and ...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Governance, power and human development
• Chapter 2: Gross National Happiness
• Chapter 3: The Gross National Happiness governance framework
• Chapter 4: The Last Shangri-La? Fractured tourism governance
• Chapter 5: Wrestling and cigarettes: Conflict in media governance
• Chapter 6: "I will die before you cut my land": Communities and farm road governance
• Chapter 7: Successful ambiguity: Human-wildlife conflict and governance
• Chapter 8: Rethinking governance, power and human development.