Up in Smoke
From Legislation to Litigation in Tobacco Politics
3rd Edition
Published on 13. September 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-1-4522-0223-5 (ISBN)
Description
In recent years, tobacco politics has been a multi-layered issue fraught with significant legal, commercial, and public policy implications. From the outset, Martha A. Derthick's Up in Smoke took a nuanced look at tobacco politics in a new era of "adversarial legalism" and the consequences, both intended and unintended, of the MSA (Master Settlement Agreement).
Now, with a brand new 3rd edition, the book returns to "ordinary politics" and the passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act which gave the FDA broad authority to regulate both the manufacture and marketing of tobacco products. Derthick shows our political institutions working as they should, even if slowly, with partisanship and interest group activity playing their part in putting restraints on cigarette smoking.
Now, with a brand new 3rd edition, the book returns to "ordinary politics" and the passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act which gave the FDA broad authority to regulate both the manufacture and marketing of tobacco products. Derthick shows our political institutions working as they should, even if slowly, with partisanship and interest group activity playing their part in putting restraints on cigarette smoking.
Reviews / Votes
"The book is the gold standard for this type of text-it's clear, it makes a strong argument about reliance on courts to make policy, and it says something about the state of American democracy." -- John Barnes * Review * "I have found this to be an excellent book for my course, accessible to an undergraduate audience and well-written." -- Daniel Gitterman * Review * "I think Up in Smoke does an excellent job of showing the multiple avenues of policy development in the American context. It can be used to show the power of interest groups, the nature of litigation, and the variations in normal politics over time. The structure of the book fits naturally with how one might discuss this in class." -- John Bruce * Review * "The book is exceptionally lucid and captures the confiscatory logic of the Master Settlement AGreement brilliantly and shows that it is indeed a pathology of federalism. The book is brilliant at telling a story and unveiling important lessons about adversarial legalism and its downside." -- Rick Valelly * Review *More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
410 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4522-0223-5 (9781452202235)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
08/2004
2nd Edition
CQ Press
€48.46
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Person
Martha Derthick retired in 1999 from the Department of Government and
Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, where she was the Julia Allen
Cooper Professor. She is the author of numerous books on American government,
including: Dilemmas of Scale in America's Federal Democracy (editor, 1999)
; Agency Under Stress: The Social Security Administration in American
Government (1990); The Politics of Deregulation (with Paul J. Quirk,
1985); and Policymaking for Social Security (1979), which won the
Kammerer Prize of the American Political Science Association as the best book
of the year on American public policy. Before going to the University of
Virginia, she was for twelve years a member of the Governmental Studies Program
of The Brookings Institution, and was the program's director between 1978 and
1983. She has also taught at Dartmouth College, Stanford University, Harvard
University, and Boston College.
Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, where she was the Julia Allen
Cooper Professor. She is the author of numerous books on American government,
including: Dilemmas of Scale in America's Federal Democracy (editor, 1999)
; Agency Under Stress: The Social Security Administration in American
Government (1990); The Politics of Deregulation (with Paul J. Quirk,
1985); and Policymaking for Social Security (1979), which won the
Kammerer Prize of the American Political Science Association as the best book
of the year on American public policy. Before going to the University of
Virginia, she was for twelve years a member of the Governmental Studies Program
of The Brookings Institution, and was the program's director between 1978 and
1983. She has also taught at Dartmouth College, Stanford University, Harvard
University, and Boston College.
Content
A New Way of Regulating Tobacco
The Ordinary Politics of Legislation
Ordinary Torts: Litigation Before It Was Substituted for Legislation
The Drive for FDA Regulation
The New Wave of Litigation
The Changed Context of Policymaking
The 1997 Settlement Dies in Congress
The FDA Regulations Die in Court
The Master Settlement Agreement of 1998
The Aftermath of the MSA
After Litigation, A Return to Legislation
Ordinary Politics versus Adversarial Legalism
Chronology of Cigarette Regulation
The Ordinary Politics of Legislation
Ordinary Torts: Litigation Before It Was Substituted for Legislation
The Drive for FDA Regulation
The New Wave of Litigation
The Changed Context of Policymaking
The 1997 Settlement Dies in Congress
The FDA Regulations Die in Court
The Master Settlement Agreement of 1998
The Aftermath of the MSA
After Litigation, A Return to Legislation
Ordinary Politics versus Adversarial Legalism
Chronology of Cigarette Regulation