This work demonstrates the value of a multi-method approach to public policy analysis, arguing that descriptive historical studies, quantitative historical studies and cross-sectional quantitative studies are essentially compatible.

Chapter 1 Politics and Morality Policies: A Theory; Chapter 2 The Policy History of Government Antidrug Efforts: Or, “It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again”; Chapter 3 Reefer Madness: A Quantitative Historical Analysis of Drug Enforcement Policy; Chapter 4, and were not examined in that article; Chapter 5 A Historical Review of Public Policies Regarding Alcohol; Chapter 6 One for the Road: A Quantitative Historical Analysis of U.S. Alcohol Policies; Chapter 7. All the dependent variables except for drunk driving laws have been updated. Several new dependent variables have been added. The independent variables in that article were adapted to fit the theory used in this book. Special thanks go to Cathy M. Johnson for her contribution to the original article. Her insights deserve credit for the findings here; I retain the blame for the changes I have made. In the update several relationships changed; that should be a lesson to those who seek to replicate their own work; Chapter 8 The Politics of Sin;