The Policy Dystopia Model
An Interpretive Analysis of Tobacco Industry Political Activity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23385259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ulucanlar (0000-0002-6581-8562, UK Centre for Tobacco & Alcohol Studies, corresponding author), Selda Ulucanlar, Gary Fooks (0000-0003-0080-4802, Aston University), Gary J Fooks, Anne Gilmore (0000-0003-0281-1248, UK Centre for Tobacco & Alcohol Studies) |
| Editors | Thomas E Novotny (0000-0001-9235-0582) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | e1002125 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PLoS Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1549-1277 • E-ISSN: 1549-1676 |
| Publisher | Public Library of Science (PLoS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002125 |
| PMID | 27649386 |
| OpenAlex | W2522368004 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 115 |
| References cited | 80 |
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 the unique resource represented by internal tobacco industry documents. Building on this literature, including systematic reviews, we develop a critically informed conceptual model of tobacco industry political activity. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We thematically analysed published papers included in two systematic reviews examining tobacco industry influence on taxation and marketing of tobacco; we included 45 of 46 papers in the former category and 20 of 48 papers in the latter (n = 65). We used a grounded theory approach to build taxonomies of "discursive" (argument-based) and "instrumental" (action-based) industry strategies and from these devised the Policy Dystopia Model, which shows that the industry, working through different constituencies, constructs a metanarrative to argue that proposed policies will lead to a dysfunctional future of policy failure and widely dispersed adverse social and economic consequences. Simultaneously, it uses diverse, interlocking insider and outsider instrumental strategies to disseminate this narrative and enhance its persuasiveness in order to secure its preferred policy outcomes. Limitations are that many papers were historical (some dating back to the 1970s) and focused on high-income regions. CONCLUSIONS: The model provides an evidence-based, accessible way of understanding diverse corporate political strategies. It should enable public health actors and officials to preempt these strategies and develop realistic assessments of the industry's claims.
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