رسالة جامعية
An Exploration of Efforts to Re-Define the Drug Problem Through State Ballot Measures
| العنوان: | An Exploration of Efforts to Re-Define the Drug Problem Through State Ballot Measures |
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| المؤلفون: | Pritchett, Anne McDonald |
| المساهمون: | Public Administration and Public Affairs, Hult, Karen M., Dudley, Larkin S., Kronenberg, Philip S., Wolf, James F. |
| بيانات النشر: | Virginia Tech |
| سنة النشر: | 2005 |
| المجموعة: | VTechWorks (VirginiaTech) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | issue framing, direct democracy, initiative process, problem definition, drug legalization, agenda setting, U.S. states, drug policy |
| الوصف: | Historically, the federal government has been the institution responsible for setting the nation's drug policy. Since 1996, however, the federal government's authority and legitimacy in this issue area has increasingly been challenged through state ballot measures introduced via the initiative process. While only eight percent of ballot measures historically are approved by voters (Initiative and Referendum Institute 2004), half of the 28 state ballot measures on illegal drugs have been approved by voters over the past decade. The stated goal of those supporting legalization through ballot measures is to "build a political movement to end the war on drugs" (Nadelmann 2004). Nadelmann (2004) suggests that victories in the states show that the "nascent drug policy reform movement" can win in the "big leagues of American politics" and that the successful models presented through the ballot measures will increase "public confidence in the possibilities and virtue" of regulating the non-medical use of illicit drugs. To date there has been no detailed examination of the issue framing strategies in this venue; nor has there been an effort to link the problem definition and direct democracy literatures. This dissertation links the problem definition and direct democracy literatures, using drug policy as the vehicle and applying Stone's (2002) analytic framework of problem definition to make descriptive inferences about the issue framing devices employed in state ballot measures on illegal drugs. The research examines a range of materials related to the state ballot measures on illegal drugs including the language appearing on voter ballots; the full text of the ballot measures, including ballot titles and political preambles; and the voter information statements and their authors. In addition, the dissertation describes the elements of legalization proposed by the ballot measures that were approved by voters and examines three key legal challenges to Proposition 215, one of the first ballot measures on illegal drugs ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | doctoral or postdoctoral thesis |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| العلاقة: | masterMay27.pdf; etd-05192005-002911; http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27794Test; http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05192005-002911Test/ |
| الإتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27794Test http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05192005-002911Test/ |
| حقوق: | In Copyright ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0Test/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.A575FB78 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |