Politics of Gross National Happiness - Governance and Development in Bhutan

This book explores the practices of governance in Bhutan and how they shape the implementation of the country's Gross National Happiness (GNH) development strategy. The author examines whether Bhutan's innovative GNH governance framework successfully navigates competing power dynamics and generates the intended human development outcomes of Gross National Happiness. The analysis is structured around a comparison of the implementation of four GNH development policies - tourism, media, farm roads and human/wildlife conflict - and their larger implications on power, governance and the human development paradigm in Bhutan and beyond.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Governance, power and human development.- Chapter 2: Gross National Happiness.- Chapter 3: The Gross National Happiness governance framework.- Chapter 4: The Last Shangri-La? Fractured tourism governance.- Chapter 5: Wrestling and cigarettes: Conflict in media governance.- Chapter 6: "I will die before you cut my land": Communities and farm road governance.- Chapter 7: Successful ambiguity: Human-wildlife conflict and governance.- Chapter 8: Rethinking governance, power and human development.

About the author

Kent Schroeder is Director of International Development Projects in the Business School at Humber College, Canada. In 2015 Kent received a Certificate of Appreciation from Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay for his contributions to Gross National Happiness.

Summary

This book explores the practices of governance in Bhutan and how they shape the implementation of the country’s Gross National Happiness (GNH) development strategy. The author examines whether Bhutan’s innovative GNH governance framework successfully navigates competing power dynamics and generates the intended human development outcomes of Gross National Happiness. The analysis is structured around a comparison of the implementation of four GNH development policies – tourism, media, farm roads and human/wildlife conflict – and their larger implications on power, governance and the human development paradigm in Bhutan and beyond. 

Product details

• Authors: Kent Schroeder
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9783319653877
• ISBN: 978-3-31-965387-7
• No. of pages: 159
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 15 mm x 219 mm
• Weight: 320 g
• Illustrations: IX, 159 p. 1 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Asien, C, Kulturwissenschaften, Cultural Studies, Cultural Policy, Economic Policy, Political Science, Asia, Entwicklungsstudien, Zentralregierung, Social Change, Politics & government, Political structure & processes, Political Science and International Studies, Economic development, Development policy, Development Studies, Asia—Politics and government, Asian Politics, Development and Social Change, Cultural Policy and Politics, Governance and Government, Asian Culture, Ethnology—Asia