Health Policy

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Nonpunctuated and Sweeping Policy Change: Bhutan Tobacco Policy Making from 1991 to 2009, Review of Policy Research (2012)

This paper examines policy outputs associated with the 2004 Bhutan antitobacco law, including 2009 amendments,...

 

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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...

 

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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,...

 

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History of Bhutan's prohibition of cigarettes: Implications for neo-prohibitionists and their critics, International Journal of Drug Policy (2011)

Recently, cigarette neo-prohibitionists have argued that a cigarette ban can be obtained from a de-facto...

 

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Progress Delayed: State of Tobacco Control Policymaking in Oklahoma From 2005-2011 (with Ami E. Stearns and Andrew Spivak) (2011)

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• Oklahoma’s 1987 Smoking In Public Places Act required the inclusion of smoking...

 

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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...

 

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)
 

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A Comparison of the Impact of U.S. and Canadian Cigarette Pack Warning Label Requirements on Tobacco Industry Profitability and the Public Health, Health Policy (2007)

Objectives: Since the early 1980s, neo-liberals have argued that command and control regulation (such as...

 

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Tobacco Lobby Political Influence on U.S. State Legislatures in the 1990s, Tobacco Control (2001)

BACKGROUND:Throughout the 1990s the tobacco lobby was a potent political force in US state legislatures...

 

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The Failure to Defend A Successful State Tobacco Control Program: Policy Lessons From Florida, American Journal of Public Health (2000)

OBJECTIVES: This investigation sought to define policy and political factors related to the undermining of...

 

Policy History, Theory, and Methods

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Nonpunctuated and Sweeping Policy Change: Bhutan Tobacco Policy Making from 1991 to 2009, Review of Policy Research (2012)

This paper examines policy outputs associated with the 2004 Bhutan antitobacco law, including 2009 amendments,...

 

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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...

 

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The Evolution of the Theoretical Foundations of Punctuated Equilibrium Theory in Public Policy, Review of Policy Research (2010)

Punctuated equilibrium theory in public policy replicated from biological punctuated equilibrium theory has concluded that...

 

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Derailing Corporate Tobacco Interests: State Initiative Policymaking from 1988 to 2006, Social Theory and Health (2009)

Since the passage of the landmark anti-tobacco Proposition 99 in California in 1988 to 2006,...

 

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Assessing Material and Symbolic Variations in Punctuated Equilibrium and Public Policy Output Patterns, Review of Policy Research (2008)

Numerous researchers have confirmed sharp and punctuated policy change. Newer findings in U.S. forest policy...

 

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Researching State Tobacco Policymaking: Issues, Data Sources, and Methods, State Politics & Policy Quarterly (2006)

In recent years, scholars of applied public policy have published a growing number of studies...

 

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Punctuated Equilibrium in Limbo: The Tobacco Lobby and U.S. State Policy Making From 1990 to 2003, Policy Studies Journal (2006)

Since the mid-1980s, U.S. tobacco policy has been an intense and acrimonious issue between antitobacco...

 

Public Administration

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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...

 

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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,...

 

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Public Management and the Public Good: The Case of Oklahoma’s 2002 Secondhand Tobacco Smoke Rules, Politics & Policy (2008)

New Public Management and classical public administration theory posit that internal administrative practices based on...

 

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Neoliberal and Public Health Impact of Not Adopting OSHA’s Proposed National Secondhand Tobacco Smoke Rule, International Journal of Health Services (2006)

From the early 1980s to the present, neo-liberal doctrine has called for governmental policies of...

 

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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,...

 

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Tobacco Industry Opposition to Designating Environmental Tobacco Smoke Through E-Codes, Journal of Public Health Policy (2005)

This manuscript examines the public policy importance of 1993, United States Department of Health and...

 

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Political Insiders Without Grassroots Advocacy in the Administration of a Missouri Tobacco Control Youth Access Program, Public Integrity (2005)

Some theorists postulate that increased and open competition in the policy process by newer groups...

 

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The ‘Global Settlement’ With the Tobacco Industry: 6 Years Later, American Journal of Public Health (2004)

On June 20, 1997 a group of attorneys and health advocates proposed a "global settlement"...

 

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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,...

 

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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...

 

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The Public Health Undermined: The Tobacco Industry's Legacy in Missouri in the 1990's (with Stanton A. Glantz Ph.D.), Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (2000)

The tobacco industry is a major political force in Missouri through lobbying, direct campaign contributions,...

 

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Tobacco Industry Political Power and Influence in Florida From 1979 to 1999 (with Stanton A. Glantz Ph.D.), Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (1999)

The tobacco industry is a major political and legal force in Florida through campaign contributions,...