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008			190827r20182010enka rb 001 0 eng d
010			_a 2009023027
020			_a9780195391237
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040			_aDLC _bspa _erda _cDLC _dUIASF
050		4	_aJF 1525.P6 _bS37.2018
100	1		_aSchrad, Mark Lawrence _eautor
245	1	4	_aThe political power of bad ideas : _bnetworks, institutions, and the global prohibition wave / _cMark Lawrence Schrad.
250			_a[Reimpresión].
264		1	_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2018, 2010
264		4	_c©2010
300			_aix, 302 páginas : _bgráficas ; _c24 cm
336			_atexto _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_asin mediación _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolumen _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
520			_aIn The Political Power of Bad Ideas, Mark Schrad looks on an oddity of modern history-the broad diffusion of temperance legislation in the early twentieth century-to make a broad argument about how bad policy ideas achieve international success. His root question is this: how could a bad policy idea-one that was widely recognized by experts as bad before adoption, and which ultimately failed everywhere-come to be adopted throughout the world? To answer it, Schrad uses an institutionalist approach, and focuses in particular on the US, Russia/USSR (ironically, one of the only laws the Soviets kept on the books was the Tsarist temperance law), and Sweden. Conventional wisdom, based largely on the U.S. experience, blames evangelical zealots for the success of the temperance movement. Yet as Schrad shows, "prohibition was adopted in ten countries other than the United States, as well as countless colonial possessions-all with similar disastrous consequences, and in every case followed by repeal." Schrad focuses on the dynamic interaction of ideas and political institutions, tracing the process through which concepts of dubious merit gain momentum and achieve credibility as they wend their way through institutional structures. And while he focuses on one episode, his historical argument applies far more broadly, and even can tell us a great deal about how today's policy failures, such as reasons proffered for invading Iraq, became acceptable.
650		0	_aPolicy sciences _vCase studies.
650		4	_aPolíticas públicas _vEstudio de casos
650		0	_aCulture diffusion _xPolitical aspects _vCase studies.
650		4	_aDifusión de la cultura _xAspectos politicos _vEstudio de casos
650		0	_aProhibition.
650		4	_aProhibición
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