Mark Lawrence Schrad: 2 books
The Political Power of Bad Ideas
Networks, Institutions, and the Global Prohibition Wave
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
In The Political Power of Bad Ideas, Mark Schrad uses one of the greatest oddities of modern history--the broad diffusion throughout the Western world of alcohol-control legislation in the early twentieth century--to make a powerful argument about how bad policy ideas achieve international success....
Vodka Politics
Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired...