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Author Schrad, Mark Lawrence

Title The political power of bad ideas : networks, institutions, and the global prohibition wave / Mark Lawrence Schrad
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 302 pages) : illustrations
Contents The transnational temperance network -- American prohibition reconsidered -- Avoiding the prohibition pitfall in Sweden -- The surprising rise and tenacity of Russian prohibition -- International influences on national alcohol policy making -- Transnational activism and national policy making
Summary In this work, Mark Lawrence Schrad looks on an oddity of modern history - the broad diffusion of temperance legislation in the early 20th century - to make a broad argument about how bad policy ideas achieve international success
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Policy sciences -- Case studies
Culture diffusion -- Political aspects -- Case studies
Prohibition.
Temperance.
Globalization -- Case studies
Temperance
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General.
Globalization
Policy sciences
Prohibition
Temperance
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009023027
ISBN 9780199742356
0199742359
9780199776856
0199776857