Political Science, Political Economy, and Well-Being and Happiness StudiesAmerican
The level of happiness and quality of life in a society, before being the product of individual efforts or purely psychological perspectives, arises from the political decisions and economic structures we choose for living alongside one another.
Benjamin Radcliff was an American thinker and professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame whose research focused on measuring the relationship between politics, economics, and the quality of human life. His seminal work, the book *The Political Economy of Human Happiness*, empirically examines the effects of public policies and the welfare state on life satisfaction.