Quantitative-oriented diffusion studies, either focused on diffusion patterns or mechanisms, take for granted that policy adoptions are manifest and therefore directly observable in the legislation. A more nuanced perspective of policy adoption taking into account gradual differences between adoption and non-adoption is proposed with this paper, valid for diffusion among communities and states in federal settings and among countries on the global level. Besides the aspect of visibility, intentions are also important when measures are adopted. While some measures are transferred with a clear instrumental aim, others are rather transferred for symbolical reasons. Looking at specific processes, the paper proposes a concept that disentangles th...
Policy diffusion occurs when policies in one unit (e.g., states, cantons, cities) are influenced by ...
Policy diffusion describes the process through which policies spread amongst a group of jurisdiction...
This article builds on the recent policy diffusion literature and attempts to overcome one of its ma...
Quantitative-oriented diffusion studies, either focused on diffusion patterns or mechanisms, take fo...
Policy diffusion means that policy choices in one unit (such as states, cantons, and cities) are inf...
A growing literature in public policy, comparative politics and international relations has studied ...
Policy diffusion occurs when policies in one unit (e.g., states, cantons, cities) are influenced by ...
Ideas often have a way of spreading. This is certainly true in the case of American states; innovati...
Policy diffusion research pays virtually no attention to policy content. Yet we should expect conten...
Most analyses of policy interdependence operate under the assumption that international policy netwo...
In recent decades, we have witnessed the diffusion of policy diffusion studies across many sub-disci...
A persistent question in the literature on policy adoption and diffusion focuses on the ways in whic...
This article discusses the recent literature on policy diffusion and puts forward a new articulation...
Most studies of policy interdependence try to observe international policy networks by focusing on t...
Will public policies to solve environmental problems spread from innovating nations to other countri...
Policy diffusion occurs when policies in one unit (e.g., states, cantons, cities) are influenced by ...
Policy diffusion describes the process through which policies spread amongst a group of jurisdiction...
This article builds on the recent policy diffusion literature and attempts to overcome one of its ma...
Quantitative-oriented diffusion studies, either focused on diffusion patterns or mechanisms, take fo...
Policy diffusion means that policy choices in one unit (such as states, cantons, and cities) are inf...
A growing literature in public policy, comparative politics and international relations has studied ...
Policy diffusion occurs when policies in one unit (e.g., states, cantons, cities) are influenced by ...
Ideas often have a way of spreading. This is certainly true in the case of American states; innovati...
Policy diffusion research pays virtually no attention to policy content. Yet we should expect conten...
Most analyses of policy interdependence operate under the assumption that international policy netwo...
In recent decades, we have witnessed the diffusion of policy diffusion studies across many sub-disci...
A persistent question in the literature on policy adoption and diffusion focuses on the ways in whic...
This article discusses the recent literature on policy diffusion and puts forward a new articulation...
Most studies of policy interdependence try to observe international policy networks by focusing on t...
Will public policies to solve environmental problems spread from innovating nations to other countri...
Policy diffusion occurs when policies in one unit (e.g., states, cantons, cities) are influenced by ...
Policy diffusion describes the process through which policies spread amongst a group of jurisdiction...
This article builds on the recent policy diffusion literature and attempts to overcome one of its ma...