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Handcuffs Or Stethoscopes: A Cross-National Examination Of The Influence That Political Institutions And Bureaucracy Have On Public Policies Concerning Illegal Drugs, Chad Nilson
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation attempts to explain why cross-national variation exists in government approaches to dealing with illegal drugs. As other scholars have shown, several domestic and international political factors do account for some of this variance. However less is known of the effect that bureaucratic dominance and political institutions may have on drug policy. This research argues that bureaucrats define problems in ways that make their services the best possible solution to policymakers. Mediating the ability of bureaucrats to influence drug policy outcomes are political institutions. Certain institutional structures foster a competitive policymaking environment while others foster a more cooperative policymaking …
A Small Price To Pay: Consumerism On The Canadian Home Front, 1939-1945, Graham G. Broad
A Small Price To Pay: Consumerism On The Canadian Home Front, 1939-1945, Graham G. Broad
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A Small Price to Pay is an examination of consumerism on the Canadian home front during the Second World War. As the first comprehensive study of consumerism in Canada during the war era, it builds upon existing scholarship in four ways. First, it goes beyond the examination of the administration of rationing and price controls, which have been the subject of previous studies, and instead focuses on consumer behavior, retailing, and advertising methods. Second, it challenges the commonplace assumption that the war was a period of extreme consumer deprivation in Canada, by demonstrating that the consumer economy remained remarkably vibrant …