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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Policy diffusion"”.
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Essays on policy diffusion
This thesis consists of three essays on policy diffusion which looks at the conditional diffusion of policies based on domestic political factors. It attempts to shed light on how different domestic political factors affect policy diffusion among independent but interrelated actors such as …
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Foundations for Policy Innovations: Exploring Local Policy Diffusion
… factors outside the county that influence policy adoption. Particular attention is given to external factors, or the possible ways that counties respond to the policies of their neighbors. This study focuses on the multiple external processes involved that contribute to policy adoption. …
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Firearm Injury Prevention: Understanding Firearm Policy Diffusion, 1993-2010
… and demographics characteristics and firearm policy diffusion. The study findings are presented across three manuscripts, which address the trends of enactment of the laws, the analysis of the six gun control laws, and an analysis of one permissive firearm law (stand your ground laws). A panel …
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Essays on State Business Tax Incentives and Policy Diffusion
… investment has drawn a lot of attention from policymakers, the public, and academics. Despite mixed assessments of their efficacy in creating net increases in jobs and investment, business tax incentives continue to be highly popular among state policymakers. This dissertation draws on …
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Policy Diffusion in U.S. Hazard Mitigation Planning: An Intergovernmental Perspective
… contributes to the disaster resilience policy literature by examining the diffusion of hazard mitigation policy in the U.S. Using the three-paper model, it investigates the adoption of local hazard mitigation plans (LHMPs) from an intergovernmental perspective. The first paper focuses on …
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Constitutionally Confederated: Developing an Interstate Policy Diffusion Framework for K-12 STEM Education
… characteristics to promote more effective policy diffusion. To accomplish that, principal component analysis was applied to 26 variables (representing four different education-related aspects) to reduce the dimensionality of the data at the elementary school, middle school, and the whole …
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The Impact of Advocacy Groups in Facilitating Policy Diffusion to Pass Paid Sick Leave Laws in New Jersey
This study of the adoption and diffusion of paid sick leave laws in New Jersey has been designed to examine the spread of the policy between local governments and then the subsequent adoption of the policy by the state. In New Jersey, PSL was first adopted by Jersey City in 2013. Following that …
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The successful diffusion of gender-affirming care bans in the U.S.: how partisanship functions as a mechanism of policy diffusion
Since 2015, the diffusion of anti-trans policies among the states has targeted the ability of transgender Americans to participate in athletics, change identification documents, use public facilities - such as bathrooms or locker rooms, and obtain gender affirming healthcare. The banning of gender …
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Diffusion of Environmental Protection Single-Use Plastic Bags Ban Policy in California
<p>Since the introduction of policy diffusion theory to understand how and why policies diffuse and are adopted across different jurisdictions, regions, or countries, the concept of policy adoption behavior, policy diffusion patterns, and the mechanism of policy diffusion have been extensively …
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Identifying Most Significant Geothermal Related Policies in Different U.S. Sectors
… identified a total of twenty-three different policy types related to geothermal energy systems in U.S. states. To understand how geothermal related policies diffuse from one U.S. state to another, and, therefore, better design policies to promote the use of geothermal energy in U.S. states, we …
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Strategies for climate change mitigation: policy and technological considerations
The present thesis addresses the policy and technological aspects of national (and sub-national) greenhouse gases (GHG) abatement strategies. Two of the three chapters of this thesis explore the former, respectively investigating (i) domestic political economy constraints and (ii) processes of …
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Policyspridning som översättning : Den politiska översättningen av metadonbehandling och husläkare i Sverige
… discusses an alternative to the conventional policy diffusion approach, i.e. the social constructivist translation perspective. Within the translation perspective, policy diffusion is defined as a process where meaning is constructed by temporally and spatially disembedding policy ideas from …
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What a Drag! Censorship and the Criminalization of Alternative Gender Performance
… child protection rhetoric and morality-based policymaking, rely on vague legal language and selective enforcement to suppress gender nonconformity while maintaining plausible deniability of discriminatory intent. Despite significant scholarship on LGBTQIA+ rights, policy diffusion, and free …
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Globalization and the diffusion of gender policy reforms in Latin America
… introduced similar national gender equality policy reforms. The key policy areas in which this convergence took place were the criminalization of domestic violence, the introduction of state agencies for women, and the incorporation into law of candidate gender quotas for national …
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Translating Foreign Ideas into Domestic Practices : Pharmaceutical Policies in Laos and Vietnam
… The author seeks to further our understanding of policy diffusion and its dynamics by investigating how foreign ideas are integrated and translated into new contexts, and how these imported ideas influence national policymaking and implementation. The National Drug Policies in Laos and Vietnam are …
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Model Legislation as a Measure of Special Interest Influence: The American Legislative Exchange Council and the Koch Network
… parties, and the impact these factors have on policy at the state level. Using a sample of 171 model bills drafted by ALEC, we utilize preliminary natural language processing methods to identify key topics existant in model bills and compare those to a sample of all legislation passed in the …
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Democratization and police reform
… background of this study are theories about policy diffusion and policy transfer. Therefore this study can be categorized as part of two different research areas. On the one hand, it is a paper from the discipline of International Relations. On the other hand, it is a paper from the …
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Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities to Creating Wildlife Corridors in the Great Plains
… pieces of habitat, is a promising and effective policy tool to mitigate the negative effects of fragmentation. However, for various understudied reasons, formulation and implementation of wildlife corridor policies has been slow or non-existent in most states. The goal of this research is to aid …
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Localities and their natural gas : stories of problem diffusion, state preemption, and local government capacity
… in the United States poses a new set of policy challenges for local governments. Striving to balance the goals of encouraging economic growth and mitigating its side effects, local governments across the country-especially the small, rural communities where most drilling occurs-are …
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