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The Impact of Federal Incentives on State Policy Innovation
Susan Welch,Kay Thompson +1 more
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The authors assesses the impact of federal incentives on the diffusion rates of these policies throughout the American states, finding that policies with federal incentives do diffuse substantially faster than policies that are the preserve of the states, even when controlled for the functional area of the policy.Abstract:
Using 57 state public policies as the basis for analysis, this paper assesses the impact of federal incentives on the diffusion rates of these policies throughout the American states. Our analysis revealed that policies with federal incentives do diffuse substantially faster than policies that are the preserve of the states, even when we controlled for the functional area of the policy. Speed of policy diffusion also appears to be related to the time of the policy "invention," although methodological considerations precluded a more systematic analysis of this factor.read more
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The mechanisms of policy diffusion
Charles R. Shipan,Craig Volden +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined three types of antismoking policy choices by the 675 largest U.S. cities between 1975 and 2000 and found evidence for four mechanisms of policy diffusion: learning from earlier adopters, economic competition among proximate cities, imitation of larger cities, and coercion by state governments.
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Policy Diffusion: Seven Lessons for Scholars and Practitioners
Charles R. Shipan,Craig Volden +1 more
TL;DR: This paper provided an introduction to the literature on policy diffusion in political science and public administration and provided seven lessons derived from that literature, built from numerous empirical studies and applied to contemporary policy debates.
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The Diffusion of Policy Diffusion Research in Political Science
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of the literature on policy diffusion, focusing on the who, what, when, where, how and why of policy diffusion. But they do not discuss the main contributions and omissions in current scholarship.
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Interstate Professional Associations and the Diffusion of Policy Innovations
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Democratic Laboratories: Policy Diffusion among the American States
TL;DR: In this paper, Karch's innovative and engaging book enables us to understand the sources of dynamism in American politics and understand the routes of transmission, or the rules governing them.
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The Diffusion of Innovations among the American States
TL;DR: This article argued that the relative wealth of a state, its degree of industrialization, and other measures of social and economic development are more important in explaining its level of expenditures than such political factors as the form of legislative apportionment, the amount of party competition, or the degree of voter participation.
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Medical Innovation: A Diffusion Study.
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Innovation in the States: A Diffusion Study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on a non-monetary dimension of public policy, i.e., innovation by states in the fields of education, welfare, and civil rights.
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Prerequisites Versus Diffusion: Testing Alternative Explanations of Social Security Adoption
David Collier,Richard E. Messick +1 more
TL;DR: The authors analyzes two alternative explanations of the timing of social security adoption: the prerequisites hypothesis, involving the level of development within nations, versus diffusion among nations, and finds that social security diffuses up a developmental hierarchy of nations rather than down a hierarchy.