Agnogenic practices and corporate political strategy: the legitimation of UK gambling industry-funded youth education programmes
Agnogenic practices-designed to create ignorance or doubt-are well-established strategies employed by health-harming industries (HHI). However, little is known about their use by industry-funded organizations delivering youth education programmes. We applied a previously published framework of corpo...
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2024
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| author | van Schalkwyk, MCI Hawkins, B Petticrew, M Maani, N Garde, A Reeves, A McKee, M |
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| description | Agnogenic practices-designed to create ignorance or doubt-are well-established strategies employed by health-harming industries (HHI). However, little is known about their use by industry-funded organizations delivering youth education programmes. We applied a previously published framework of corporate agnogenic practices to analyse how these organizations used them in three UK gambling industry-funded youth education programmes. Evidential strategies adopted previously by other HHI are prominent in the programmes' practitioner-facing materials, evaluation design and reporting and in public statements about the programmes. We show how agnogenic practices are employed to portray these youth education programmes as 'evidence-based' and 'evaluation-led'. These practices distort the already limited evidence on these educational initiatives while legitimizing industry-favourable policies, which prioritize commercial interests over public health. Given the similarities in political strategies adopted by different industries, these findings are relevant to research and policy on other HHI. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:524ea4df-1154-435e-8d0d-e89badfe829e2024-08-21T16:58:35ZAgnogenic practices and corporate political strategy: the legitimation of UK gambling industry-funded youth education programmesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:524ea4df-1154-435e-8d0d-e89badfe829eEnglishSymplectic ElementsOxford University Press2024van Schalkwyk, MCIHawkins, BPetticrew, MMaani, NGarde, AReeves, AMcKee, MAgnogenic practices-designed to create ignorance or doubt-are well-established strategies employed by health-harming industries (HHI). However, little is known about their use by industry-funded organizations delivering youth education programmes. We applied a previously published framework of corporate agnogenic practices to analyse how these organizations used them in three UK gambling industry-funded youth education programmes. Evidential strategies adopted previously by other HHI are prominent in the programmes' practitioner-facing materials, evaluation design and reporting and in public statements about the programmes. We show how agnogenic practices are employed to portray these youth education programmes as 'evidence-based' and 'evaluation-led'. These practices distort the already limited evidence on these educational initiatives while legitimizing industry-favourable policies, which prioritize commercial interests over public health. Given the similarities in political strategies adopted by different industries, these findings are relevant to research and policy on other HHI. |
| spellingShingle | van Schalkwyk, MCI Hawkins, B Petticrew, M Maani, N Garde, A Reeves, A McKee, M Agnogenic practices and corporate political strategy: the legitimation of UK gambling industry-funded youth education programmes |
| title | Agnogenic practices and corporate political strategy: the legitimation of UK gambling industry-funded youth education programmes |
| title_full | Agnogenic practices and corporate political strategy: the legitimation of UK gambling industry-funded youth education programmes |
| title_fullStr | Agnogenic practices and corporate political strategy: the legitimation of UK gambling industry-funded youth education programmes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agnogenic practices and corporate political strategy: the legitimation of UK gambling industry-funded youth education programmes |
| title_short | Agnogenic practices and corporate political strategy: the legitimation of UK gambling industry-funded youth education programmes |
| title_sort | agnogenic practices and corporate political strategy the legitimation of uk gambling industry funded youth education programmes |
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