Government Regulation of the Alcohol Industry - The Search for Revenue and the Common Good

List of contents

Preface
An Historical and Theoretical Review of Alcohol-Government Relations
Introduction to the Alcohol-Government Controversy
A Model for Social and Political Strategy
A Brief History of the American Alcohol Industry
The Current American Alcohol Industry
The Beer Industry
The Distilled Spirits Industry
The Wine Industry
The Effects of Regulations on Alcohol Sales and the Future of the Alcohol Industry
The Effect of Alcohol Excise Taxes on Alcohol Beverage Sales
The MADD Movement and Anti-Drunk Driving Laws
Conclusions and the Future of Alcohol-Government Relations
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Richard A. McGowan is an Associate Professor at Boston College's Carroll School of Management and a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, where he has worked with Massachusetts state legislators formulating public policies affecting the sin industries. His previous books for the Greenwood Publishing Group include State Lotteries and Legalized Gambling: Painless Revenue or Painful Mirage (Quorum 1994) and (with John F. Mahon) Industry as a Player in the Political and Social Arena: Defining the Competitive Environment (Quorum 1996). He is also the author of Government and the Transformation of the Gaming Industry (2001).

Product details

• Authors: Richard Mcgowan, McGowan Richard
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.08.1997
• EAN: 9781567200348
• ISBN: 978-1-56720-034-8
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government policies, Manufacturing industries, Central government policies, Food Manufacturing & Related Industries, Current Events and Issues: Business