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Drug Policy Constellations : The Role of Power and Morality in the Making of Drug Policy in the UK.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stevens, Alex
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2024.
Subjects:
Drug control > Great Britain.
Lutte antidrogue > Grande-Bretagne.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Half-title
  • Drug Policy Constellations: The Role of Power and Morality in the Making of Drug Policy in the UK
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • About the Author
  • Preface
  • 1 An Introduction to Drug Policy Constellations
  • A note on reading this book
  • Titular, descriptive concepts
  • Sub-titular, explanatory concepts: power and morality
  • Explaining drug policy with policy constellations: the structure of this book
  • Conclusion: drug policy as a testing ground for the policy constellations approach
  • Part I Contexts, Concepts and Methods for Studying Drug Policy Constellations
  • 2 Facts and Narratives of the UK Drug Policy Context
  • Medical and penal control in UK drug policy
  • Drug-related harms: public health crisis or crime epidemic
  • Drug use in the UK
  • Conclusion: the abundance of drug-related facts and narratives
  • 3 Power and Morality in Policy Making
  • Political and social power and its stratifications
  • Forms of political power: institutional, legal and coercive
  • Forms of social power: economic, epistemic, affective, media and savvy
  • Stratification and reproduction of power: the unequal distribution of the ability to influence policy
  • Moral foundations, bases and narratives for understanding policy making
  • The effects of morality
  • The contents of morality
  • Overlapping moral, material and affective imperatives
  • Conclusion: all policy is morality policy
  • 4 Policy Constellation: A Critical Realist Approach
  • Critical frameworks for policy analysis: a very brief introduction
  • What are policy constellations?
  • Morality as "shared mission"
  • Policy constellations and forms of power
  • Constellations and reflexivity: where you stand affects your view
  • Conclusion: the advantages of the policy constellations approach
  • 5 Studying Policy Constellations in the Real World
  • Casing and sampling for ethnography, interviews and documents
  • Ethnography of policy work
  • Elite interviewees
  • Documents for discourse analysis
  • Coding and analysis of fieldnotes, interviews and documents
  • Narratives and tropes
  • Factoids
  • Policy positions
  • Policy actors
  • Coding
  • Ethico-political bases
  • Analysis of policy constellations with SNA
  • Two-mode SNA
  • Nodes and ties
  • Creating sociograms
  • Policy constellations as SNA modules
  • Conclusion: mixed methods for studying policy constellations
  • Part II Morality and Power in UK Drug Policy Constellations
  • 6 Moralities in Action: The Ethico-Political Bases of UK Drug Policy
  • Compassion: a shared, but differentiated value
  • Traditionalism: big and small C conservatism
  • Default paternalism: limiting freedom to protect from harm
  • Progressive social justice: fairness as equality and the removal of disadvantage
  • Liberty: self-enhancement and making money
  • Moral overlaps and mutual repulsion