Draft Dissertation: The Prohibition Option: Transnational Temperance and National Policymaking in Russia, Sweden and the United StatesMark Lawrence Schrad April 18, 2007
". . . . In the end, alcohol prohibition turned-out to be a bad policy idea. Yet even ill-advised policies have the potential to tell us much about how governments make policy decisions. While we would like to think that politicians learn from the mistakes of the past, today it seems unavoidable that leaders make, and will continue to make ill-informed and misguided policy choices. . . . ."
Table of Contents
Chapter 2: Ideas, Institutions and Political Change
Chapter 3: Network Lifecycles: The Rise and Fall of Transnational Temperance
Case Studies
Chapter 4: American Prohibition Reconsidered
Chapter 5: Prohibition Averted: The Case of Sweden
Chapter 6: The Surprising Rise and Tenacity of Russian Prohibition
Synthesis
Chapter 7: International Influences on National Policymaking
Chapter 8: Conclusions: Transnational Activism and National Policymaking
Appendix A: International Temperance Conventions
Appendix C: The Gothenburg Option
Appendix D: Correspondence: George Kennan to Frances Willard
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