Drug policy constellations : the role of power and morality in the making of drug policy in the UK / Alex Stevens.

Front Cover
Half-title
Drug Policy Constellations: The Role of Power and Morality in the Making of Drug Policy in the UK
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
About the Author
Preface
1 An Introduction to Drug Policy Constellations
A note on reading this book
Titular, descriptive concepts
Sub-titular, explanatory concepts: power and morality
Explaining drug policy with policy constellations: the structure of this book
Conclusion: drug policy as a testing ground for the policy constellations approach

Part I Contexts, Concepts and Methods for Studying Drug Policy Constellations
2 Facts and Narratives of the UK Drug Policy Context
Medical and penal control in UK drug policy
Drug-related harms: public health crisis or crime epidemic
Drug use in the UK
Conclusion: the abundance of drug-related facts and narratives
3 Power and Morality in Policy Making
Political and social power and its stratifications
Forms of political power: institutional, legal and coercive
Forms of social power: economic, epistemic, affective, media and savvy

Stratification and reproduction of power: the unequal distribution of the ability to influence policy
Moral foundations, bases and narratives for understanding policy making
The effects of morality
The contents of morality
Overlapping moral, material and affective imperatives
Conclusion: all policy is morality policy
4 Policy Constellation: A Critical Realist Approach
Critical frameworks for policy analysis: a very brief introduction
What are policy constellations?
Morality as "shared mission"
Policy constellations and forms of power

Constellations and reflexivity: where you stand affects your view
Conclusion: the advantages of the policy constellations approach
5 Studying Policy Constellations in the Real World
Casing and sampling for ethnography, interviews and documents
Ethnography of policy work
Elite interviewees
Documents for discourse analysis
Coding and analysis of fieldnotes, interviews and documents
Narratives and tropes
Factoids
Policy positions
Policy actors
Coding
Ethico-political bases
Analysis of policy constellations with SNA
Two-mode SNA
Nodes and ties

Creating sociograms
Policy constellations as SNA modules
Conclusion: mixed methods for studying policy constellations
Part II Morality and Power in UK Drug Policy Constellations
6 Moralities in Action: The Ethico-Political Bases of UK Drug Policy
Compassion: a shared, but differentiated value
Traditionalism: big and small C conservatism
Default paternalism: limiting freedom to protect from harm
Progressive social justice: fairness as equality and the removal of disadvantage
Liberty: self-enhancement and making money
Moral overlaps and mutual repulsion
Conclusion: the ethico-political bases of UK drug policy