Politics, Policy Analysis, and the Passage of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984

Darren Grant ()

No 1103, Working Papers from Sam Houston State University, Department of Economics and International Business

Abstract: The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 exemplifies high-stakes legislation that attracted the interest of the public, legislators, academics, policy advocates, and executive agencies. This paper explores how these actors combined to generate intellectual support for this act within the legislative process. Limitations of the contemporaneous research required that the available evidence be evaluated judiciously. This did not happen, because it is not fostered by the adversarial nature of the process and because its most influential participants, executive agencies heavily involved in traffic safety, lacked the necessary neutrality and expertise.

Date: 2011-09
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.shsu.edu/academics/economics-and-intern ... es/wp11-03_paper.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:shs:wpaper:1103

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Sam Houston State University, Department of Economics and International Business Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Christian Raschke ().