This chapter reviews the dominant theories of government innovation in the public policy
literature. It shows that these theories borrow heavily from others developed to explain …

The internationalization of policies and politics is catching the attention of a growing number
of scholars in the field of international political economy and comparative public policy (Knill …

As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the price Over
the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally …

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 …

Since Beck, Katz, and Tucker (1998), the standard method for modeling time dependence in
binary data has been to incorporate time dummies or splined time in logistic regressions …

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 …

Berry et al.'s (1998) measures of US state citizen and government ideology rely on
unadjusted interest-group ratings for a state's members of Congress to infer information …

Political scientists often characterize state and local governments as marginal and highly
constrained in policymaking. However, I suggest that in recent decades state governments …

This article illustrates the use of the directed dyad‐year event history analysis to study policy
diffusion, with an application to policy changes in the Children's Health Insurance Program …

This article puts forward four strategies to improve policy diffusion research in political
science:(1) use existing concepts consistently and improve their measurement,(2) clarify …