Engelsk titel: How to sell alcohol? History of the Danish alcohol licence system
Författare:
Möller K
Email: km@crf.au.dk
Språk: Dan
Antal referenser: 37
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 09025546
Sammanfattning
This article examines how the 100-year-old Danish alcohol licence system has balanced the
social and health consequences of alcohol consumption with the freedom to run a business.
When the rest of the Nordic countries first introduced a monopoly on the retail sale of alcohol,
Denmark chose not to have a monopoly, but rather focused on combining a licensing
requirement with the high taxation on alcohol.
In the early 20th century, the Templar movement and the publican’s organisation represented
the divergent interests of social and health consequences vs. the idea of free-trade
respectively. In the middle to latter part of the century, these interests are represented by the
state and the publican’s organisations.
The method used is a sociological analysis of the genesis of alcohol-related legislation. The
material analysed includes laws and official legal documents pertaining to the preparation of
the laws.
The article shows how pressure to liberalise the selling of alcohol from public houses grew
throughout the twentieth century, ultimately undermining the intended restrictions and also
normalising the selling of alcohol.