James W. Dearing ([email protected]) is a professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University, in East Lansing. Jeffrey G. Cox is a research associate in the Department of ...

The study of policy diffusion examines how innovative policy ideas spread among governments, revealing the mechanisms by which states influence one another in the adoption and adaptation of effective ...

Scientists merged the domains of health policy with network science and dynamical systems to help understand the mechanisms of policy diffusion in the same way we understand the diffusion of one ...

In the literature on policy innovation diffusion, political scientists have paid little attention to how ideas for innovation gain prominence on government agendas. By considering the actions of ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Climate policy at the subnational level is sometimes framed as being counterproductive, because climate change is ...