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The Politics of Alcoholism: Building an Arena Around a Social Problem

The Politics of Alcoholism: Building an Arena Around a Social Problem

Wiener, Carolyn

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Public HealthGeneral SociologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0878553797
ISBN13: 9780878553792
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 31 1980
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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.

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