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Globalisation and the integration of Europe increase the importance of comparative social research. The design of comparative research in Europe can be based on one of two alternative strategies. The first one is to produce the raw data needed for the different European countries under one comparative research programme and then make this data available to the research community. The second one is to continuously collect data produced under different and autonomous research projects, to harmonise and to, integrate them into large data collections. This second strategy has n...

This is a study on narcotics control. The analysis focuses on public decision-making and legislative processes rather than on the patterns and characteristics of the non-medical drug consumption. As such, it evolved around the theoretical discussion about the relationship between the strategies adopted on narcotics control and the nature of the addiction problem, with specific emphasis upon an understanding of the generation of mechanisms and processes of social control. The study suggests that intra-state variables are of little relevance in explaining the enactment and...