Hedonic psychology and the ambiguities of "welfare"

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The issue regarding the understanding of what welfare is and whether it is a distinct, defensible and tractable metric for social policy in light of burgeoning empirical literature in hedonic psychology is examined. The tremendously imaginative efforts of the new hedonic psychologists to avoid the pitfalls of both conventional preference utilitarianism and Benthamite hedonic utilitarianism have only underscored the impossibility of defining an individual's welfare wholly by his own lights.

Author: Kelman, Mark
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Philosophy & Public Affairs
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0048-3915
Year: 2005
Public affairs, Social aspects, Utilitarianism, Hedonism

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A global diffusion model of e-governance

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The extent to which e-governance develops in a country is a function of the collective national and local capital supplying IT services and of informal social and human capital creating a demand for e-governance. A diffusion model of Internet access shows that it is more realistic to think of cross-national differences in terms of leading and lagging countries.

Author: Rose, Richard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Name: Journal of Public Policy
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0143-814X
Year: 2005
United States, Models, Internet, Access control, Information management, Information accessibility

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Children's rights in Turkey

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Child welfare issues in Turkey are often left by the government to the care of nongovernmental and international organizations. The Turkish government should accelerate the initiatives it has taken in order to do more to protect childrens' rights and welfare.

Author: Libal, Kathryn
Publisher: Transaction Publishers, Inc.
Publication Name: Human Rights Review
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 1524-8879
Year: 2001
Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Turkey, Children's Rights, Child welfare

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