Shifting Constellations of Actors and Their Influence on Policy Diffusion: A Study of the Diffusion of Drug Courts.

The existing studies of policy diffusion have paid insufficient attention to how policy actors in the macroenvironment of local jurisdictions influence the process of policy diffusion, what kind of mechanisms drive the interdependent spread of a policy, and how the diffusion process changes over tim...

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Publicado en:Policy Studies Journal Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 484 - 512
Autores principales: Douglas, James W., Raudla, Ringa, Hartley, Roger E.
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Nov2015
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