Who Are Your Neighbors? The Role of Ideology and Decline of Geographic Proximity in the Diffusion of Policy Innovations.
States adopt policy innovations within the confines of a dynamic American federal system, but our study of policy diffusion tends to be fairly static. Single‐policy studies incorporate temporal variation, but for only one innovation. Macro‐level analyses examine broad patterns, but often by complete...
| Published in: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 67 - 89 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2021
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