How Should We Wage the War on Drugs? Determinants of Public Preferences for Drug Control Alternatives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6328503 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J M Timberlake (0000-0003-3143-2810), Eric D Lock, Eric Lock, Kenneth A Rasinski (0009-0000-7540-6759) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-88 |
| Publication date | 2003-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1541-0072.00004 |
| OpenAlex | W2116122764 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 26 |
When citizens are presented with alternative policy solutions to a given social problem, why do they choose to support one over another? In this article, the authors analyze a survey of residents of the five largest U.S. metropolitan areas to understand determinants of public support for spending on three major components of American drug control policy: law enforcement programs, rehabilitative services for addicts, and school‐based prevention programs. The authors estimate effects of self‐interest, political socialization, and policy attitudes on support for total drug control expenditures and on preferences for each drug control alternative versus the others. Effects of group self‐interest, societal interest, and political socialization change dramatically across dimensions of support. Policy attitudes are strong predictors of both types of support, whereas individual self‐interest measures are not associated with either dimension
Control (management · Dimension (graph theory · Economic growth · Economics · Enforcement · Metropolitan area · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public opinion · Public policy · Socialization · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Public Policy and Administration Research · Social Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Knowledge, risk, and policy support
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Direct democracy, policy diffusion, and medicalized marijuana
Addictive Substances, Users’ Health, and the Government’s Perceived Responsibility
Addiction Frameworks and Support for Expanding Treatment for Drug Offenders
From Social Proximity to Policy Preferences
Rehabilitation and Repression
Interdependent Preferences, Militarism, and Child Gender
The Influence of Specific Risk Perceptions on Public Policy Support
Media Exposure and Attitudes Toward Drug Addiction Spending, 1975-2004
Prohibition, Regulation or Free Market
French People's Positions Regarding National Policies About Illicit Drugs
Support for the American welfare state
Public Support for Increased Spending on the Drug Problem in America Is Not a Simple Matter
The Measurement and Decomposition of Causal Effects in Nonlinear and Nonadditive Models
Effects of Conservative Sociopolitical Attitudes on Public Support for Drug Rehabilitation Spending
Welfare Realities
Evidence of the Long-Term Persistence of Adults' Political Predispositions
Political Rhetoric and Political Persuasion
Public Opinion and Public Policy, 1980-1993
The Dual Influence of Self-Interest and Societal Interest in Public Opinion
Understanding Public Support for Time Limits and Other Welfare Reforms
Public Attitudes toward Government Spending
Providing public assistance
Attitudes, values, and attributions
Opposition to Race-Targeting
Individuals, Institutions, and Public Preferences over Public Finance
Bringing the Public Back in
The Determinants of Public Attitudes toward the Welfare State
Race, Class, and Support for the Welfare State
Group Threat and Regional Change in Attitudes Toward African-Americans
| Unique citing works | 16 |
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| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |