It's worth remembering that in the past two elections, there was no fear-mongering Willie Horton moment, no effort to suggest that the big threat to citizens' well-being was some unknown guy with a knife.
This program was exposed by citizen action, and at its worst is known to have authorized the assassinations of multiple American citizens, as well is responsible for the deaths of countless others during botched police raids conducted at the behest of the FBI.
In fact, a sophisticated concern among their neighbors and their own citizens might well be about the unity of France's and Germany's political and economic goals and methods.
As Steve Landefeld pointed out to me, Kuznets worried that the nation's economic activity might be mistaken for its citizens' well-being.
Citizens concerned about the birds' well being — and the possibility of children being pecked — found them new roosts in backyard coops, which are regulated by the city.
The new happiness findings matter, the three professors say, because governments are supposed to be in the business of protecting their citizens' well-being and because governments can take steps to avoid recessions, or at least mitigate their effects.
Iraq could once again be the model for the developing nation-state if it is able to humanize economics and politics, putting its citizens' well-being at the center of policymaking.
Only that which is breakable has been broken.Another expressed his relief at being Chilean, blessed with a government that, he felt sure, would surely look after its citizens' well-being.
And in Uzbekistan, the ADB's host this month, the regime shows more interest in its own survival than in citizens' well-being: shadowy business groups control much of the economy, and Soviet-style agriculture is chiefly a tool of social control, to keep pesky people out of the cities.
Another expressed his relief at being Chilean, blessed with a government that, he felt sure, would surely look after its citizens' well-being.
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