Politics and Quality of Life The Role of Well-Being in Political Outcomes /

• Main Authors: Yonk, Ryan M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Smith, Josh T. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science,
• Subjects: Public policy.; Political sociology.; Social policy.; Public Policy.; Political Sociology.; Social Policy.

This book explores the relationship between quality of life, policy, and political behavior. Using carefully collected, granular data, the authors create a measurement of quality of life for each county in the United States. After applying the index to each county and calculating scores, the results...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Understanding Quality of Life
•  Chapter 2: Building a Quality of Life Index
•  Chapter 3:  Effects of Quality of Life
•  Chapter 4: Quality of Life and Trust
•  Chapter 5: Quality of Life and Political Participation
•  Chapter 6: Quality of Life and Electoral Politics
•  Chapter 7: Quality of Life and Direct Democracy
•   Chapter 8: Quality of Life and Government Spending
•  Chapter 9: Quality of Life and Local Government
•  Chapter 10: Conclusions and Implications.