The ^APolitical Power of Bad Ideas

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The ^APolitical Power of Bad Ideas is written by Mark Lawrence Schrad and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190452935 (ISBN 10) and 9780190452933 (ISBN 13).

In The Political Power of Bad Ideas, Mark Schrad looks on an oddity of modern history--the broad diffusion of temperance legislation in the early twentieth century--to make a broad argument about how bad policy ideas achieve international success. Schrad focuses on the dynamic interaction of ideas and political institutions, tracing the process through which concepts of dubious merit gain momentum and achieve credibility as they wend their way through institutional structures.