Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Intergovernmental grants stimulate the diffusion of policy reforms, as the federal government provides states with a financial incentive to adopt policies aligned with federal priorities. Less is known about the extent to which these grants also stimulate horizontal diffusion across states.
NaLette Brodnax, Sarah James
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Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why did Australia go from the White Australia Policy, which excluded non‐whites, to institutionalizing multiculturalism policy in the 1970s? This question defies traditional political ideologies of the major political parties, which had long supported the White Australia Policy. This article is a rare empirical demonstration of the Five‐Thread
Julius C. S. Mok
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[Ageism in health care and suicide risk in older adults: a challenge for public health in Latin AmericaIdadismo no âmbito da saúde e risco de suicídio em pessoas idosas: um desafio para a saúde pública na América Latina]. [PDF]
Rev Panam Salud PublicaBozanic A +4 more
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Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the evolution of climate change discourse in the United States Congress from 1987 to 2017, employing natural language processing (NLP) techniques to analyze floor speeches. Using a la carte (ALC) word embeddings, we investigate how Democratic and Republican members of Congress frame climate change, focusing on denialist ...
Joseph Charles Van Matre +2 more
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[Social determinants, the urban environment, and public safety policies: a spatial ecological and time-series analysis of Santiago de Cali, Colombia, 2015-2024Determinantes sociais, ambiente urbano e políticas de segurança: análise ecológica espacial e de séries temporais em Santiago de Cali, Colômbia, 2015-2024]. [PDF]
Rev Panam Salud PublicaPinzón-Flórez CE +2 more
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Blocking the Poor: Status Quo Bias in Policy Congruence
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on unequal responsiveness has shown that policies tend to align more closely with the preferences of high‐income citizens than low‐income citizens. Using comparative data on opinions and policies, we suggest that this inequality primarily results from status quo bias; asymmetric blocking power drives unequal congruence rather than ...
Mikael Persson, Anders Sundell
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[Comprehensive care of patients with type 1 diabetes in primary health care: policies, practices, and the role of civil societyAtenção integral a pacientes com diabetes tipo 1 na atenção primária à saúde: políticas, práticas e o papel da sociedade civil]. [PDF]
Rev Panam Salud PublicaRangel-Osuna F +2 more
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Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on policy diffusion, the ways in which policy attention influences this process remain underexplored. This study addressed this gap by distinguishing between three types of policy attention—political speeches, policy issuance and field visits—and investigating their differential impacts when delivered by central and ...
Xiangning Chen, Yahua Wang
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["Invisibility" as a mirror of civilizational malaise: the rise of the homeless population and their fights for recognition in Brazil]. [PDF]
Salud ColectFleury S.
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Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The social construction of target populations (SCTP) framework emphasizes the ways in which target populations' levels of political power and deservingness shape the allocation of policy benefits, but less attention has been devoted to the conditions under which the same target population may be considered deserving in one policy context but ...
Elizabeth Bell +3 more
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