Research

Refereed Work on the "Politics of Happiness" in Peer Reviewed Journals

The Welfare State and Human Well-Being Around the World: A Cross-National Analysis (with Emma Schmidt and Benjamin Radcliff)

Public Sector Employment, Quality of Government, and Well-Being: A Global Analysis (with Robert Davidson and Benjamin Radcliff)

Well-Being and the Democratic State: How the Public Sector Promotes Human Happiness  (with Mark Brockway and Benjamin Radcliff).

 Labour Market Regulation and Subjective Well‐Being in Low‐Income Countries (with Patrick Flavin and Benjamin Radcliff)

Assessing the Impact of the Size and Scope of Government on Human Well-Being (with Patrick Flavin and Benjamin Radcliff)

State Intervention and Subjective Well-Being in Advanced Industrial Democracies (with Patrick Flavin and Benjamin Radcliff)

Organized Labor, Democracy, and Life Satisfaction: A Cross-National Analysis (with Lauren Keane and Benjamin Radcliff)

Labor Unions and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from New Data (with Patrick Flavin and Benjamin Radcliff)

Assessing the Welfare State: The Politics of Happiness (with Benjamin Radcliff)

Welfare Policy and Subjective Well-Being Across Nations: An Individual-Level Assessment (with Benjamin Radcliff)

Working Papers

Relative Mobilization Capacity, Elections and civil Liberties across Polity Analysis (with Ruchan Kaya)

European Union Spending and Life Satisfaction: A Cross-National Analysis (with Pascal Doray-Demers)

Recent Work on the "Politics of Happiness" by co-authors

The Political Economy of Human Happiness: How Voters' Choices Determine the Quality of Life (2013. Benjamin Radcliff, Cambridge Press)

Politics, Markets, and Life Satisfaction: the Political economy of Human Happiness  (2001. Benjamin Radcliff, American Political Science Review)

The Politics of Happiness: On the Political Determinants of Quality of Life in the American States (2018. Angel Alvarez-Diaz, Lucas Gonzales, and Benjamin Radcliff, Journal of Politics).

Life Satisfaction and Political Participation: Evidence from the United States (2012. Patrick Flavin and Michael Keane, Journal of Happiness Studies)

State Medicaid Expansion and Citizens’ Quality of Life (2018. Patrick Flavin, Social Science Quarterly)