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 …

Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for experts in the most established and
widely used theoretical frameworks in policy process research to present the basic …

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 …

To understand the development, dynamics, and potential influence of protest movements,
one needs to understand the range of coalitional forms. Successful and sustained …

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 …

We study the effects of policy-specific public opinion on state adoption of policies affecting
gays and lesbians, and the factors that condition this relationship. Using national surveys …

Generations of state politics scholars have believed that a US state is more likely to adopt a
law if its neighboring states have already done so, that is, that there is a positive regional …

Policy Diffusion Dynamics in America integrates research from agenda setting and
epidemiology to model factors that shape the speed and scope of public policy diffusion …

Despite ample research linking conservatism to discrimination and liberalism to tolerance,
both groups may discriminate. In two studies, we investigated whether conservatives and …

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 …