Gary Fooks
Biographic Data
| ID | 4075000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Fooks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Fooks |
| SIGNATURE | FOOKS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0080-4802 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Impartiality on Platforms: The Politics of BBC Journalists’ Twitter Networks
Research shows the prominence afforded to political actors in BBC journalism strongly reflects the balance of power in Westminster, with major political parties, and the ruling party in particular, tending to predominate. This article examines the extent to which these patterns of news access and exposure are also evident in BBC journalists’ following of and interactions with MPs on Twitter, using data from 90 BBC journalists’ Twitter accounts (e…
Corporations’ use and misuse of evidence to influence health policy: A case study of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation
BACKGROUND: Sugar sweetened beverages (SSB) are a major source of sugar in the diet. Although trends in consumption vary across regions, in many countries, particularly LMICs, their consumption continues to increase. In response, a growing number of governments have introduced a tax on SSBs. SSB manufacturers have opposed such taxes, disputing the role that SSBs play in diet-related diseases and the effectiveness of SSB taxation, and alleging maj…
Tobacco industry access to policy elites and the implementation of Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
The Dutch government's initial decision not to codify Article 5.3 created an administrative environment in which health ministers' interpretation of Article 5.3 was able to shift according to their political beliefs. The findings support the recommendation that Parties to the FCTC take a strict approach and formally codify Article 5.3 to ensure effective implementation
Controlling corporate influence in health policy making? An assessment of the implementation of article 5.3 of the World Health Organization framework convention on tobacco control
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) stands to significantly reduce tobacco-related mortality by accelerating the introduction of evidence-based tobacco control measures. However, the extent to which States Parties have implemented the Convention varies considerably. Article 5.3 of the FCTC, is intended to insulate policy-making from the tobacco industry's political influence, and aims to …
Can’t see the woods for the trees: Exploring the range and connection of tobacco industry argumentation in the 2012 UK standardised packaging consultation
In policy-making systems characterised by mandatory impact assessments and public consultations, the wide range of cost (and contested benefits) based arguments highlights the risk of TTCs overloading policy actors and causing delays in policy adoption. Illicit trade related arguments are central to providing a rationale for these arguments, which include the claim that standardised packaging will increase health risks. The strategic importance o…
The Tolerable Cost of European Union Regulation: Leaving the EU and the Market for Politically Convenient Facts
European Union (EU) law-making has played a key role in promoting social equity in the UK through safer working conditions, enhanced rights for workers, and by reducing environmental pollution. Concerns over its effect on business competitiveness have long been a major driver of Euroscepticism, underpinning criticism of the EU by influential opinion formers within British conservatism. The Leave Campaign argued that EU laws damage the UK economy …
The Policy Dystopia Model: An Interpretive Analysis of Tobacco Industry Political Activity
BACKGROUND: Tobacco industry interference has been identified as the greatest obstacle to the implementation of evidence-based measures to reduce tobacco use. Understanding and addressing industry interference in public health policy-making is therefore crucial. Existing conceptualisations of corporate political activity (CPA) are embedded in a business perspective and do not attend to CPA's social and public health costs; most have not drawn on …
How does the alcohol industry attempt to influence marketing regulations? A systematic review
Exposing and addressing tobacco industry conduct in low-income and middle-income countries
The devil is in the detail: Tobacco industry political influence in the Dutch implementation of the 2001 EU Tobacco Products Directive
The findings highlight the policy risks associated with corporate actors' ability to use interactions over technical product specifications to influence the implementation of health policy and illustrate the difficulties in limiting industry interference in accordance with Article 5.3 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). The implementation phase is particularly vulnerable to industry influence, where negotiation with industry ac…
Corporate Taxation, Corporate Power, and Corporate Harm
Globalisation has increased corporate tax competition amongst states and facilitated widespread corporate tax avoidance. Some of the largest businesses now pay little or no tax: in some cases with the active assistance of governments. This article examines contemporary corporation tax policies, outlines some of the key methods corporations use to minimise their tax liabilities, explores the interdependencies between the demand for reduced tax lia…
How Does the Tobacco Industry Attempt to Influence Marketing Regulations? A Systematic Review
The Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility: Techniques of Neutralization, Stakeholder Management and Political CSR
Since scholarly interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) has primarily focused on the synergies between social and economic performance, our understanding of how (and the conditions under which) companies use CSR to produce policy outcomes that work against public welfare has remained comparatively under-developed. In particular, little is known about how corporate decision-makers privately reconcile the conflicts between public and priv…
Illicit trade, tobacco industry-funded studies and policy influence in the EU and UK
In the course of the last decade, the tobacco industry has attempted to increase the political salience of the illicit trade in tobacco products (illicit trade) (box 1).1 ,2 Tobacco companies have claimed that sharp rises in tobacco taxation and innovative regulation, such as standardised packaging and product display bans, are drivers of the illicit trade, and have advocated programmes of engagement with policymakers and other social actors in a…
International trade law, plain packaging and tobacco industry political activity: The Trans-Pacific Partnership
Tobacco companies are increasingly turning to trade and investment agreements to challenge measures aimed at reducing tobacco use. This study examines their efforts to influence the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a major trade and investment agreement which may eventually cover 40% of the world's population; focusing on how these efforts might enhance the industry's power to challenge the introduction of plain packaging. Specifically, the paper…
OP03 Assessing the Evidence Base of Tobacco Industry Submissions to Public Consultations: The case of ‘plain Packaging’ of Tobacco Products in the UK
Background The UK’s public consultation on ‘plain packaging’ of tobacco products generated an unprecedented volume of responses. Given the track record of the tobacco industry’s misuse of science to oppose policy change, and the fact that plain packaging has only recently been introduced in a single jurisdiction – Australia, December 2012 – how can policymakers weigh up evidence submitted to them? In this paper, the authors deliver an analysis of…
News analysis
subsidiary Sampoerna's sponsorship of a rescue camp for evacuees from the slopes of the erupting Mount Merapi in Java highlights how the tragicomedy of tobacco industry corporate social responsibility thrives in disaster-hit regions of the world. Sampoerna is reported to have paid for the camp, its aid workers, who wear red and black uniforms with company logos, and the branded four-wheel drive cars and trucks that are parked on its perimeter
Is the increasing policy use of Impact Assessment in Europe likely to undermine efforts to achieve healthy public policy
European policymakers have recently become increasingly committed to using Impact Assessment (IA) to inform policy decisions. Welcoming this development, the public health community has not yet paid sufficient attention to conceptual concerns about IA or to corporate efforts to shape the way in which IA is used. This essay is a thematic analysis of literature concerning IA and associated tools and a related assessment of the European Union's (EU)…
Tobacco industry attempts to undermine Article 5.3 and the “good governance” trap: Table 1
No abstract available
Contrasts in tolerance: The peculiar case of financial regulation
Until the eighties the system of commercial fraud investigation and prosecution was extraordinarily undeveloped. By the end of the eighties this system had been transformed. What took place was nothing short of a fundamental rethink of financial regulation and commercial fraud control. By the nineties, however, this process had gone into reverse. The following discussion aims to explain why. The analysis attempts to understand the main shifts in …
Impartiality on Platforms: The Politics of BBC Journalists’ Twitter Networks
Research shows the prominence afforded to political actors in BBC journalism strongly reflects the balance of power in Westminster, with major political parties, and the ruling party in particular, tending to predominate. This article examines the extent to which these patterns of news access and exposure are also evident in BBC journalists’ following of and interactions with MPs on Twitter, using data from 90 BBC journalists’ Twitter accounts (e…
Is the increasing policy use of Impact Assessment in Europe likely to undermine efforts to achieve healthy public policy
European policymakers have recently become increasingly committed to using Impact Assessment (IA) to inform policy decisions. Welcoming this development, the public health community has not yet paid sufficient attention to conceptual concerns about IA or to corporate efforts to shape the way in which IA is used. This essay is a thematic analysis of literature concerning IA and associated tools and a related assessment of the European Union's (EU)…
Contrasts in tolerance: The peculiar case of financial regulation
Until the eighties the system of commercial fraud investigation and prosecution was extraordinarily undeveloped. By the end of the eighties this system had been transformed. What took place was nothing short of a fundamental rethink of financial regulation and commercial fraud control. By the nineties, however, this process had gone into reverse. The following discussion aims to explain why. The analysis attempts to understand the main shifts in …
The Tolerable Cost of European Union Regulation: Leaving the EU and the Market for Politically Convenient Facts
European Union (EU) law-making has played a key role in promoting social equity in the UK through safer working conditions, enhanced rights for workers, and by reducing environmental pollution. Concerns over its effect on business competitiveness have long been a major driver of Euroscepticism, underpinning criticism of the EU by influential opinion formers within British conservatism. The Leave Campaign argued that EU laws damage the UK economy …
Contrasts in tolerance: The peculiar case of financial regulation
Until the eighties the system of commercial fraud investigation and prosecution was extraordinarily undeveloped. By the end of the eighties this system had been transformed. What took place was nothing short of a fundamental rethink of financial regulation and commercial fraud control. By the nineties, however, this process had gone into reverse. The following discussion aims to explain why. The analysis attempts to understand the main shifts in …
Tobacco industry attempts to undermine Article 5.3 and the “good governance” trap: Table 1
No abstract available
News analysis
subsidiary Sampoerna's sponsorship of a rescue camp for evacuees from the slopes of the erupting Mount Merapi in Java highlights how the tragicomedy of tobacco industry corporate social responsibility thrives in disaster-hit regions of the world. Sampoerna is reported to have paid for the camp, its aid workers, who wear red and black uniforms with company logos, and the branded four-wheel drive cars and trucks that are parked on its perimeter
Is the increasing policy use of Impact Assessment in Europe likely to undermine efforts to achieve healthy public policy
European policymakers have recently become increasingly committed to using Impact Assessment (IA) to inform policy decisions. Welcoming this development, the public health community has not yet paid sufficient attention to conceptual concerns about IA or to corporate efforts to shape the way in which IA is used. This essay is a thematic analysis of literature concerning IA and associated tools and a related assessment of the European Union's (EU)…
The Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility: Techniques of Neutralization, Stakeholder Management and Political CSR
Since scholarly interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) has primarily focused on the synergies between social and economic performance, our understanding of how (and the conditions under which) companies use CSR to produce policy outcomes that work against public welfare has remained comparatively under-developed. In particular, little is known about how corporate decision-makers privately reconcile the conflicts between public and priv…
Illicit trade, tobacco industry-funded studies and policy influence in the EU and UK
In the course of the last decade, the tobacco industry has attempted to increase the political salience of the illicit trade in tobacco products (illicit trade) (box 1).1 ,2 Tobacco companies have claimed that sharp rises in tobacco taxation and innovative regulation, such as standardised packaging and product display bans, are drivers of the illicit trade, and have advocated programmes of engagement with policymakers and other social actors in a…
International trade law, plain packaging and tobacco industry political activity: The Trans-Pacific Partnership
Tobacco companies are increasingly turning to trade and investment agreements to challenge measures aimed at reducing tobacco use. This study examines their efforts to influence the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a major trade and investment agreement which may eventually cover 40% of the world's population; focusing on how these efforts might enhance the industry's power to challenge the introduction of plain packaging. Specifically, the paper…
OP03 Assessing the Evidence Base of Tobacco Industry Submissions to Public Consultations: The case of ‘plain Packaging’ of Tobacco Products in the UK
Background The UK’s public consultation on ‘plain packaging’ of tobacco products generated an unprecedented volume of responses. Given the track record of the tobacco industry’s misuse of science to oppose policy change, and the fact that plain packaging has only recently been introduced in a single jurisdiction – Australia, December 2012 – how can policymakers weigh up evidence submitted to them? In this paper, the authors deliver an analysis of…
How Does the Tobacco Industry Attempt to Influence Marketing Regulations? A Systematic Review
Exposing and addressing tobacco industry conduct in low-income and middle-income countries
The devil is in the detail: Tobacco industry political influence in the Dutch implementation of the 2001 EU Tobacco Products Directive
The findings highlight the policy risks associated with corporate actors' ability to use interactions over technical product specifications to influence the implementation of health policy and illustrate the difficulties in limiting industry interference in accordance with Article 5.3 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). The implementation phase is particularly vulnerable to industry influence, where negotiation with industry ac…
Corporate Taxation, Corporate Power, and Corporate Harm
Globalisation has increased corporate tax competition amongst states and facilitated widespread corporate tax avoidance. Some of the largest businesses now pay little or no tax: in some cases with the active assistance of governments. This article examines contemporary corporation tax policies, outlines some of the key methods corporations use to minimise their tax liabilities, explores the interdependencies between the demand for reduced tax lia…
The Policy Dystopia Model: An Interpretive Analysis of Tobacco Industry Political Activity
BACKGROUND: Tobacco industry interference has been identified as the greatest obstacle to the implementation of evidence-based measures to reduce tobacco use. Understanding and addressing industry interference in public health policy-making is therefore crucial. Existing conceptualisations of corporate political activity (CPA) are embedded in a business perspective and do not attend to CPA's social and public health costs; most have not drawn on …
How does the alcohol industry attempt to influence marketing regulations? A systematic review
Controlling corporate influence in health policy making? An assessment of the implementation of article 5.3 of the World Health Organization framework convention on tobacco control
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) stands to significantly reduce tobacco-related mortality by accelerating the introduction of evidence-based tobacco control measures. However, the extent to which States Parties have implemented the Convention varies considerably. Article 5.3 of the FCTC, is intended to insulate policy-making from the tobacco industry's political influence, and aims to …
Can’t see the woods for the trees: Exploring the range and connection of tobacco industry argumentation in the 2012 UK standardised packaging consultation
In policy-making systems characterised by mandatory impact assessments and public consultations, the wide range of cost (and contested benefits) based arguments highlights the risk of TTCs overloading policy actors and causing delays in policy adoption. Illicit trade related arguments are central to providing a rationale for these arguments, which include the claim that standardised packaging will increase health risks. The strategic importance o…
The Tolerable Cost of European Union Regulation: Leaving the EU and the Market for Politically Convenient Facts
European Union (EU) law-making has played a key role in promoting social equity in the UK through safer working conditions, enhanced rights for workers, and by reducing environmental pollution. Concerns over its effect on business competitiveness have long been a major driver of Euroscepticism, underpinning criticism of the EU by influential opinion formers within British conservatism. The Leave Campaign argued that EU laws damage the UK economy …
Corporations’ use and misuse of evidence to influence health policy: A case study of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation
BACKGROUND: Sugar sweetened beverages (SSB) are a major source of sugar in the diet. Although trends in consumption vary across regions, in many countries, particularly LMICs, their consumption continues to increase. In response, a growing number of governments have introduced a tax on SSBs. SSB manufacturers have opposed such taxes, disputing the role that SSBs play in diet-related diseases and the effectiveness of SSB taxation, and alleging maj…
Tobacco industry access to policy elites and the implementation of Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
The Dutch government's initial decision not to codify Article 5.3 created an administrative environment in which health ministers' interpretation of Article 5.3 was able to shift according to their political beliefs. The findings support the recommendation that Parties to the FCTC take a strict approach and formally codify Article 5.3 to ensure effective implementation
Impartiality on Platforms: The Politics of BBC Journalists’ Twitter Networks
Research shows the prominence afforded to political actors in BBC journalism strongly reflects the balance of power in Westminster, with major political parties, and the ruling party in particular, tending to predominate. This article examines the extent to which these patterns of news access and exposure are also evident in BBC journalists’ following of and interactions with MPs on Twitter, using data from 90 BBC journalists’ Twitter accounts (e…
Political science (16 works) · Business (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (12 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Public health (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Tobacco industry (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works)