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- Title
Building Alliances in Unlikely Places: Progressive Allies and the Tobacco Institute's Coalition Strategy on Cigarette Excise Taxes.
- Authors
Campbell, Richard B.; Balbach, Edith D.
- Abstract
The tobacco industry often utilizes third parties to advance its policy agenda. One such utilization occurred when the industry identified organized labor and progressive groups as potential allies whose advocacy could undermine public support for excise tax increases. To attract such collaboration, the industry framed the issue as one of tax fairness, creating a labor management committee to provide distance from tobacco companies and furthering progressive allies' interests through financial and logistical support. Internal industry documents indicate that this strategic use of ideas, institutions, and interests facilitated the recruitment of leading progressive organizations as allies. By placing excise taxes within a strategic policy nexus that promotes mutual public interest goals, public health advocates may use a similar strategy in forging their own excise tax coalitions. (Am J Public Health. 2009;99:1188-1196. doi;10.2105/AJPH,2008,143131)
- Subjects
UNITED States; TOBACCO industry; CIGARETTE tax laws; LABOR unions; PRACTICAL politics; PUBLIC interest lobbying; TAX reform; POLITICAL participation
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2009, Vol 99, Issue 7, p1188
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2008.143131