Benjamin Radcliff is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His current
research focuses on the means by which human happiness is politically produced and distributed.
His scholarly articles on the subject have appeared in many journals,
including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics,
and Social Forces. He is also the author of The Political Economy of Human Happiness (Cambridge
University Press). Radcliff has a been a scholar in residence at the
the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and the Roosevelt Study Center, and
a Fulbright Fellow.
Benjamin Radcliff
Professor of Political Science, the University of Notre Dame
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Happiness
This roundtable explores the concept of happiness from philosophical, psychological, and ethical perspectives, examining how it is defined, measured, and understood across both individual experience and the span of a life. It considers questions about the relationship between pleasure and well-being, the role of happiness in relation to others’ welfare, and how contemporary approaches such as positive psychology influence broader social, economic, and policy frameworks.