The book investigates the effects of federalism and multi-level governance on
tobacco control policy adoption in the United Kingdom and South Africa. It
uses theories of federalism and multi-level governance, as well as policy transfer
(diffusion) and interest groups politics to investigate their effects on tobacco
control policy. In this exploration, the various policies that have been adopted
by various governments in the two countries as well as the European
Union are examined, as is the relationship between the policies adopted and
international benchmarks on tobacco control....