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Studia z Polityki Publicznej, 2022 This paper develops a unified model of policy diffusion to analyze the speed of adoption of statewide lockdown policies within a federal system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sharon Elhadad, Udi Sommer
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Epistemic Communities, Human Rights, and the Global Diffusion of Legislation against the Organ Trade
Social Sciences, 2016 Over the past several decades, over 100 countries have passed legislation banning commercial organ transplantation. What explains this rapid, global diffusion of laws? Based on qualitative data from in-depth interviews, historical analysis, and secondary
Fikresus Amahazion
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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2019 Transnational policy transfer is a well‐documented phenomenon with studies from across many disciplines. However, the literature tends to over‐theorize but under‐operationalize what is transferred and how it is transferred.
Kidjie Saguin, Michael Howlett
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Understanding the adoption of Pay-for-performance in state governments: A diffusion theory approach
Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2018 As various private sector practices have been introduced into the public sector, some were adopted without careful assessment of potential policy and management implications. One such example is the adoption of pay-for-performance (PFP).
Sangyub RYU +2 more
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AgricultureAgricultural science and technology policies (ASTPs) have played a pivotal role in shaping agricultural innovation, sustainability, and cleaner production practices.
Xiaohe Liang +9 more
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A Model for Willingness to Adopt Open Government Policies in Iran [PDF]
فرایند مدیریت و توسعه, 2019 Based on the policy diffusion framework, some policies are adopted by policy makers. On the other hand, the ‘open government concept’ offers options to solve problems and challenges faced by governments, including corruption, distrust among citizens ...
Farajollah Rahnavard +3 more
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Transnational policy transfer: the circulation of ideas, power and development models
Policy & Society, 2020 The study of policy transfer initially focused on transfers and transmissions among developed countries or from developed countries to the developing world. Today the circulation of policy and knowledge has become more dense and complex.
Diane Stone +2 more
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The Affordable Care Act and the Diffusion of Policy Feedback: The Case of Medicaid Work Requirements
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020 Over the last five years, many states have sought to limit access to Medicaid by adopting restrictive policies. How can we reconcile this development with studies that imply that Medicaid should be insulated from policy backlash?
Richard C. Fording, Dana Patton
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Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization
CoRRWe introduce Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization, DPPO, an algorithmic framework including best practices for fine-tuning diffusion-based policies (e.g. Diffusion Policy) in continuous control and robot learning tasks using the policy gradient (PG) method from reinforcement learning (RL).
Allen Z. Ren +8 more
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Policy diffusion and european public policy research
, 2018 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
Wasserfallen, Fabio
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