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 …

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 …

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 …

Studies of policy diffusion often focus on the horizontal spread of enactments from one state
to another, paying little or no attention to the effects of local laws on state‐level adoptions …

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

Studies of policy diffusion have given insufficient attention to the role that characteristics of
the policies themselves play in determining the speed of policy diffusion and the …

This article analyzes existing scholarship on the diffusion of public policies among the
American states, focusing on recent developments in this line of research and suggesting …

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), countries are increasingly adopting
AI-guided chatbots to improve service on government portals. The reduction in face-to-face …

Governing Health examines health care policy making from a long-term, political
perspective, describing how Congress, the president, special interest groups, bureaucracy …

This paper examines the extent to which state governments in the United States have
adopted open e-government initiatives. The adoption is examined in terms of the three …