Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC2086: Governing the Good Life: Contemporary International Studies

This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Bache, I. and Reardon, L (2013) An Idea Whose Time has come? Explaining the Rise of Well-Being in British politics’. Political Studies 61: 898-914

Bok, D. (2010) The Politics of Happiness. Princeton: Princeton University

Calisto Friant, M and Langmore, L. (2015) The Buen Vivir: A Policy to Survive the Anthropocene? Global Policy Volume 6 . Issue 1.

Cullen, J. (2003) The American Dream. Oxford University Press.

Hirata, J. (2005) How Should happiness Guide Policy? Why Gross National Happiness is not opposed to Democracy.

http://www.gpiatlantic.org/conference/papers/hirata.pdf

Priesner, S. (1999) Gross National Happiness – Bhutan’s Vision of Development and its Challenges available at

https://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/publicationFiles/OccasionalPublications/GNH-SetofDiscussionPapers/GNH_Ch3_Priesner.pdf

Waring, M. (1988) If Women Counted. HarperCollins: San Francisco.

Dalziel, P., Matunga, H. and Saunders C., (2006) Cultural Well-being and Local Government: Lessons from New Zealand . Australasian Journal of Regional Studies Volume 12 Issue 3 pp267-280