Research Catalog

Title

Regulating alcohol around the world : policy cocktails / by Tiffany Bergin.

Author

Bergin, Tiffany

Publication

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2013]

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Details

Description

158 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"With the World Health Organization estimating that nearly four percent of global deaths are due to alcohol, alcohol misuse can be an extremely damaging social problem, and one that governments around the world have endeavored to address through a range of policy strategies. Regulating Alcohol around the World explores historical and contemporary case studies in multiple countries to gain a richer understanding of the political, economic, and other forces that influence alcohol-related policymaking. The case studies presented in the book investigate a range of different kinds of alcohol policies, including prohibition strategies, general efforts to reduce alcohol's social harms, and more targeted policies. The explanatory value of leading theories from political science, policy studies, anthropology, and other fields is assessed, with particular reference to the influence of cultural and historical factors on approaches to alcohol regulation. The book adopts a global perspective and offers guidance for students, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and other stakeholders about the lessons that can be learned from previous efforts to change alcohol policies. As such, it will be of interest to practitioners in the fields of health and alcohol abuse prevention, as well as scholars and students of social policy, criminology, and the sociology of health, addiction, and social problems."--pub. desc.

Series Statement

Solving social problems

Subject

• Drinking of alcoholic beverages > Government policy > History
• Alcoholism > Social aspects
• Controlled drinking
• Temperance
• Alkoholismus
• Prävention
• Politik
• Kulturvergleich
• Alcoholism > prevention & control
• Alcohol Drinking > adverse effects

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Research into alcohol's social harms -- Alcohol and policymaking -- History, culture, context -- Key lessons from Prohibition policies: beyond the 1920s -- General efforts to reduce alcohol's social harms -- Targeted policies: minimum drinking age laws -- Concluding thoughts.

ISBN

• 9781409445258 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1409445259 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9781409445265 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781472402622 (epub) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013002710

OCLC

• 827528430
• SCSB-11897631

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library