ArticleBritish journal of politics & international relations2021
Alcohol policy, multi-level governance and corporate political strategy: The campaign for Scotland's minimum unit pricing in Edinburgh, London and Brussels.
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- The Political Determinants of Oral Health Inequalities: Lessons in Policy Development and Implementation From Six Case Studies.Community dentistry and oral epidemiology · 2025Review
- Thou doth protest too much: How the minimum unit price affected retailers' revenue.Drug and alcohol review · 2025Article
- Continuities and change in alcohol policy at the global level: a documentary analysis of the 2010 Global Strategy for Reducing the Harmful Use of Alcohol and the Global Alcohol Action Plan 2022-2030.Globalization and health · 2024Article
- Advocacy counterstrategies to tobacco industry interference in policymaking: a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature.Globalization and health · 2023Article
- The emperor has no clothes: a synthesis of findings from the Transformative Research on the Alcohol industry, Policy and Science research programme.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Review
- Corporate Political Activity: Taxonomies and Model of Corporate Influence on Public Policy.International journal of health policy and management · 2023Article
- Policy communities, devolution and policy transfer: The case of alcohol pricing in Wales.Regional & federal studies · 2023Article
- "Using information to shape perception": tobacco industry documents study of the evolution of Corporate Affairs in the Miller Brewing Company.Globalization and health · 2022Article
- Think big about developing the science.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Article
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The Scottish government's plans for a minimum unit price for alcohol were vehemently opposed by the alcohol industry leading to a 6-year delay in implementation after legislation was passed. This article seeks to explain the consequences of devolution and European Union membership for the development of minimum unit price in Scotland through the concepts of multi-level governance, veto points and venue shifting. Systems of multi-level governance create policy interdependencies between settings, an increased number of veto points at which policies can be blocked, and the potential for policy actors to shift decision-making to forums where favourable outcomes are more likely to be attained. In the minimum unit price debates, the alcohol industry engaged in multiple forms of venue shifting and used regulatory compliance procedures and legal challenges at the EU level to try to prevent and delay the policy. This has led to a 'chilling effect' on subsequent alcohol policy developments across the United Kingdom.
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