The Politics of Alcoholism: Building an Arena Around a Social Problem (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780878553792)

The Politics of Alcoholism can be read on one level as a fascinating history of the evolving politics of what this country is doing about "the problem of alcoholism." Not so long ago that problem was scarcely larger than a human hand against the horizon, but now it makes good, regular newspaper copy. This text follows through on the much-raised question of how a social problem becomes defined as a large scale problem, when the same phenomenon x Preface now labeled as "a problem" was not so named before. What is offered here is a direct attack on the rise into public visibility of something previously the concern of a relatively small number of people and groups, and which gets defined along the way as a problem for the whole nation. The second issue addressed is closer to the political scientist's traditional interest, namely the politics of handling public issues: research and theorizing here usually focus on interest groups, lobbying, public debate, legislative rights, constituencies, and so on.

Author: Carolyn Wiener
ISBN-10: 0878553797
ISBN-13: 9780878553792
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/31/1980
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d