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 …

A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second
edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining …

The scholarship on policy diffusion in political science and public administration is
extensive. This article provides an introduction to that literature for scholars, students, and …

Most studies of policy feedback have focused on processes of self‐reinforcement through
which programs bolster their own bases of political support and endure or expand over time …

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 …

This article discusses the recent literature on policy diffusion and puts forward a new
articulation of its political dimensions. Policy diffusion means that policies in one unit …

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 …

International interdependence is at the core of the international relations discipline, which is
premised upon the fact that states interact with one another and examines the nature …