TY - BOOK ID - 80825157 TI - Policy diffusion dynamics in America PY - 2010 SN - 9780511778834 9780521762816 9781107698888 9780511860690 0511860692 9780511858086 0511858086 0521762812 0511857217 9780511857218 0511862024 1107216907 1282943642 9786612943645 0511859821 0511858957 051177883X 110769888X PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Policy sciences. KW - Diffusion of innovations KW - Innovations, Diffusion of KW - Acculturation KW - Communication KW - Culture diffusion KW - Technological innovations KW - Policy-making KW - Policymaking KW - Public policy management KW - Political aspects KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80825157 AB - 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. Drawing on a data set of more than 130 policy innovations, the research demonstrates that the 'laboratories of democracy' metaphor for incremental policy evaluation and emulation is insufficient to capture the dynamic process of policy diffusion in America. A significant subset of innovations trigger outbreaks - the extremely rapid adoption of innovation across states. The book demonstrates how variation in the characteristics of policies, the political and institutional traits of states, and differences among interest group carriers interact to produce distinct patterns of policy diffusion. ER -