TY  - JOUR
A1  - Burchi, Francesco
A1  - De Muro, Pasquale
A1  - Kollar, Eszter
T1  - Constructing well-being and poverty dimensions on political grounds
T2  - Social indicators research
N2  - The paper addresses the problem of justifying ethically sound dimensions of poverty or well-being for use in a multidimensional framework. We combine Sen’s capability approach and Rawls’ method of political constructivism and argue that the constitution and its interpretative practice can serve as an ethically suitable informational basis for selecting dimensions, under certain conditions. We illustrate our Constitutional Approach by deriving a set of well-being dimensions from an analysis of the Italian Constitution. We argue that this method is both an improvement on those used in the existing literature from the ethical point of view, and has a strong potential for providing the ethical basis of a conception of well-being for the public affairs of a pluralist society. In the final part, we elaborate on the implications for measuring well-being based on data, by ranking Italian regions in terms of well-being, and pointing out the differences in results produced by different methods.
KW  - Well-being
KW  - Poverty measurement
KW  - Capabilities
KW  - Political constructivism
KW  - Constitutions
KW  - Italy
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46822
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-468223
SN  - 1573-0921
SN  - 0303-8300
N1  - © The Author(s) 2017. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
VL  - 137
IS  - 2
SP  - 441
EP  - 462
PB  - Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
CY  - Dordrecht [u. a.]
ER  -