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Change or Continuity in Drug Policy: The Roles of Science, Media, and Interest Groups book cover

1st Edition

Change or Continuity in Drug Policy The Roles of Science, Media, and Interest Groups

By Julie Tieberghien Copyright 2017
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge
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While evidence-based policy is an emerging rhetoric of the desire by and for governments to develop policies based on the best available evidence, drug policy is an area where particular challenges abound. This book is a detailed and comprehensive examination of the contours of drug policy development through the consideration of the particular roles of science, media, and interest groups. Using... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. The Science–Policy Nexus: From Knowledge Utilisation Models to the Evidence Movement

3. Analysing Drug Policy: Documents, Elites, and Related Challenges

4. Incremental Steps in the Opening of a Policy Window

5. Parliamentary Working Group on Drugs: 1996-1997

6. Turbulent Intermezzo: 1997-2000

7. The First National Drug Strategy: Federal Drug Policy Note (2001)

8. The Reform of Belgian Drug Law: 2002-2003

9. Concluding Thoughts

References

Biography

Julie Tieberghien is currently a post-doctoral fellow of FWO - Research Foundation Flanders - at the Department of Criminology, Criminal Law & Social Law (Ghent University). Her main areas of research are drug policy analysis, newsmaking, and public criminology, and she has published widely in these areas.

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