Policy Innovation Adoption Across the Diffusion Life Course.
This study develops and tests a theory of the diffusion life course using a dataset of 566 policies adopted between 1960 and 2016. Previous small‐N studies found differences between leaders and laggards, but broader innovation theory points to five stages of adoption: innovation, early adoption, ear...
| Published in: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 335 - 359 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2021
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