The Politics of Sin - Drugs, Alcohol and Public Policy

This work demonstrates the value of a multi-method approach to public policy analysis, arguing that descriptive historical studies, quantitative historical studies and cross-sectional quantitative studies are essentially compatible.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Politics and Morality Policies: A Theory; Chapter 2 The Policy History of Government Antidrug Efforts: Or, “It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again”; Chapter 3 Reefer Madness: A Quantitative Historical Analysis of Drug Enforcement Policy; Chapter 4, and were not examined in that article; Chapter 5 A Historical Review of Public Policies Regarding Alcohol; Chapter 6 One for the Road: A Quantitative Historical Analysis of U.S. Alcohol Policies; Chapter 7. All the dependent variables except for drunk driving laws have been updated. Several new dependent variables have been added. The independent variables in that article were adapted to fit the theory used in this book. Special thanks go to Cathy M. Johnson for her contribution to the original article. Her insights deserve credit for the findings here; I retain the blame for the changes I have made. In the update several relationships changed; that should be a lesson to those who seek to replicate their own work; Chapter 8 The Politics of Sin;

About the author

Kenneth J. Meier

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth J. Meier, Meier Kenneth J.
• Assisted by: Kenneth J. Meier (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.1994
• EAN: 9781563242984
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-298-4
• No. of pages: 279
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, United States of America, USA, Social research & statistics, Central / national / federal government policies, Health systems & services, Social research and statistics, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, Health systems and services, Central government policies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Health Care