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The politics of policy diffusion

European Journal of Political Research, 2019
Abstract This article discusses the recent literature on policy diffusion and puts forward a new articulation of its political dimensions. Policy diffusion means that policies in one unit (country, state, city, etc.) are influenced by the policies of other units.
Fabrizio Gilardi, Fabio Wasserfallen
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Policy Diffusion Through Elections

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023
Staggered difference-in-differences designs are pervasive in policy evaluations but little is known about the mechanisms of policy diffusion: How and why do such policies spread across jurisdictions? In this study, we highlight the role of elections in policy diffusion in settings where municipal elections are asynchronous due to historical reasons ...
Shigeoka, Hitoshi, Watanabe, Yasutora
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Technology Diffusion and Public Policy

The Economic Journal, 1994
A useful typology of technological change is provided by the Schumpeterian trilogy: invention (the generation of new ideas), innovation (the development of those ideas through to the first marketing or use of a technology) and diffusion (the spread of new technology across its potential market).
Stoneman, Paul, Diederen, Paul
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The Diffusion of Morality Policies

2021
Through event history analysis and seemingly unrelated estimations, this study investigates the way in which diffusion of state-level legislation in the USA changes according to the varying degrees of morality policy characteristics it displays. The author finds that the magnitude of diffusion increases when policies reflect fewer characteristics of ...
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The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion

American Journal of Political Science, 2008
Local policy adoptions provide an excellent opportunity to test among potential mechanisms of policy diffusion. By examining three types of antismoking policy choices by the 675 largest U.S. cities between 1975 and 2000, we uncover robust patterns of policy diffusion, yielding three key findings.
Charles R. Shipan, Craig Volden
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Does Policy Diffusion Need Space? Spatializing the Dynamics of Policy Diffusion

Policy Studies Journal, 2017
For decades, scholars in multiple disciplines have examined spatial diffusion, or the spatiotemporal properties associated with the diffusion of innovations. These properties include contagious, hierarchical, and relocation diffusion. Each of these refers to a spatial model that epitomizes how innovations spread among geographic locations.
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Policy Diffusion and European Public Policy Research

2017
The vast and growing policy diffusion literature analyzes how policy-making in one jurisdiction—be it a country or a subnational unit—is influenced by prior policy decisions in other jurisdictions. Rather surprisingly, Europe remains an understudied area in the recent policy diffusion literature. This comes as a surprise because the European governance
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The Diffusion of Policy Diffusion Research in Political Science

British Journal of Political Science, 2012
Over the past fifty years, top political science journals have published hundreds of articles about policy diffusion. This article reports on network analyses of how the ideas and approaches in these articles have spread both within and across the subfields of American politics, comparative politics and international relations.
Erin R. Graham   +2 more
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Theories of Policy Diffusion

Comparative Political Studies, 2007
Brazil's democratic constitution granted municipalities responsibility to design and implement social policies, allowing for tailored programs to meet local constituent demands. Yet instead of pursuing local diversity, many governments chose to emulate programs made famous elsewhere. What explains the diffusion of social programs across Brazil?
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