My current research agenda includes engaging in policy analysis and evaluation of the state, market, corporate behavior and public policy trends at the local, state, federal, and international levels. I am also interested in comparative public policy. I have also recently been utilizing public policy research to examine and analyze current theories of policy and politics in the area of New Public Management theory, regulatory policy, policy subsystems, and punctuated equilibrium theory. I am particularly interested in theories of policy change and corporate or political hegemony.
Articles
Bureaucratic Advocacy and Ethics A State-Level Case of Public Agency Rulemaking and Tobacco Control Policy (with Andrew Spivak), Public Integrity (2012)
Before 2001, the Oklahoma Department of Health achieved little to protect the public from the...
Tobacco Policymaking and Administration in Bhutan from 1991 to 2009, International Journal of Public Administration (2011)
From 1991 to 2004, a significant grassroots campaign, in the eastern Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan,...
History of Bhutan's prohibition of cigarettes: Implications for neo-prohibitionists and their critics, International Journal of Drug Policy (2011)
Background Recently, cigarette neo-prohibitionists have argued that a cigarette ban can be obtained from a...
Deconstructing Social Constructionist Theory in Tobacco Policy: The Case of the Less Hazardous Cigarette, Journal of Policy Practice (2011)
Scholars in tobacco control have utilized a social construction approach to test and explain tobacco...
In Search of the Less Hazardous Cigarette, International Journal of Health Services (2011)
Since the 1950s, despite considerable and long-term tobacco industry and government efforts, attempts to develop...
Contributions to Books
Tobacco Industry Media Efforts to Defeat State Tobacco Control Tax Referenda and Initiatives, National Cancer Institute, Monograph 19: Use of the Media to Promote and Discourage Tobacco Use (2008)
Other
Progress Delayed: State of Tobacco Control Policymaking in Oklahoma From 2005-2011 (with Ami E. Stearns and Andrew Spivak) (2011)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• Oklahoma’s 1987 Smoking In Public Places Act required the inclusion of smoking...
From Industry Dominance to Legislative Progress: The Political and Public Health Struggle of Tobacco Control on Oklahoma (with Andrew L. Spivak M.A.), Tobacco Control (2005)
The tobacco industry is a major political force in Oklahoma through lobbying, direct campaign contributions,...
Political Reform and Tobacco Control Policy Making in Mississippi From 1990 to 2001 (with Stanton A. Glantz Ph.D.), Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (2002)
The tobacco industry is a major political force in Mississippi though lobbying, litigation, public relations,...
Tobacco Policy Making in California 1999-2001: Stalled and Adrift (with Joanna Dearlove B.A. and Stanton A. Glantz Ph.D.), Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (2001)
The tobacco industry remains a powerful force in California politics through lobbying, campaign contributions, public...