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Marc C. Willemsen
Political Science and International Relations
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The Tempo of Dutch Tobacco Control Policy
This chapter considers the tempo at which the Dutch government took steps to control smoking by comparing the moment of adoption of policy measures in the Netherlands with the United Kingdom and with the rest ...
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Conclusions
Public policy scholars propose that policy change emerges from the interaction of five elements: (1) the policy context, which can be more or less conducive to tobacco control policy change; (2) the workings o...
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Introduction
Twenty years ago I worked on an advisory report on the effectiveness of various tobacco control policy measures, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Health as part of the process of presenting a revised toba...
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Making Tobacco Control Policy Work: Rules of the Game
Tobacco policy is made by actors who operate in an institutional environment with specific characteristics (Scharpf, 1997), and differences in these characteristics can explain much of the variation in tobacco...
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Scientific Evidence and Policy Learning
Scientific evidence plays an important role in the policymaking process. Facts about the seriousness of a problem need to be accepted before a problem will be fully addressed, and evidence needs to be availabl...
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The Tobacco Control Coalition
Tobacco is the main contributor to three groups of disease: cancer, lung disease, and heart disease. Everywhere in the world, health charities fighting these illnesses became natural leaders in the field of to...
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Problem Identification and Agenda Setting
Tobacco is a highly contested topic. Lobbyists present their policy solutions to politicians and government officials who weigh the evidence against what they believe is feasible or desirable, much like solvin...
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Dutch Tobacco Control Policy from the 1950s to the Present
Tobacco control policy is a long step from the neat theoretical path of identifying a problem, selecting the most effective strategy to tackle it, and then just implementing it. This chapter describes the many...
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The Social and Cultural Environment
Policy is not made in a vacuum. Disputes over tobacco control are fought within changing policy environments. This chapter explores key population-level factors that influence a national government’s decision ...
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The International Context: EU and WHO
Since the 1960s, governments around the world have been develo** policies to control tobacco. Countries have employed different combinations of measures (World Bank, 1999), taking national circumstances into...
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Tobacco Industry Influence
The origins of the tobacco market can be traced back to the seventeenth century. The famous Dutch golden age was an era of prosperity for tobacco merchants. They traded not only in spices and slaves but also i...
