A Strategic Theory of Policy Diffusion via Intergovernmental Competition

Baybeck, Brady; Berry, William D.; Siegel, David A.

doi:10.1017/s0022381610000988

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“…Specifically in relation to good governance, Bauhr and Nasiritousi (2012) countries. As in theories of yardstick competition in economics, the precise standard of comparison will be influenced by performance in neighboring states (Besley & Case, 1995;Baybeck, Berry, & Siegel, 2011). In contrast, improved performance on governance should increase rulers' legitimacy and support, and reduce the probability of a leadership challenge.…”

Section: Norm Diffusionmentioning

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Public Information and Performance: The Role of Spatial Dependence in the Worldwide Governance Indicators among African Countries

Ward

Dorussen

2015

World Development

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The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) provide transparent and comparable country statistics for different dimensions of governance linked to (under)development. Yet, does the public availability of governance data actually enhance performance? If investors, donor agencies and citizens are made aware of relative governance performance, competition for inward investment, such as FDI and ODA, and domestic legitimacy become plausible mechanisms for diffusion of good governance. We test whether such mechanisms operate using the WGI for Africa, and find evidence for spatial diffusion of democracy, rule of law, and corruption control.There is no evidence for diffusion of regulatory quality and government effectiveness.

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Section: Norm Diffusionmentioning

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Public Information and Performance: The Role of Spatial Dependence in the Worldwide Governance Indicators among African Countries

Ward

Dorussen

2015

World Development

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“…We expect some policies to diffuse across state lines due to intergovernmental competition (Baybeck et al 2011). According to this theory, states strategically compete for locational choices made by individuals and firms, including business investment decisions and consumer behaviour.…”

Section: Competition Drives Policy Diffusionmentioning

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Kindred spirits or intergovernmental competition? The innovation and diffusion of energy policies in the American states (1990–2008)

Matisoff

Edwards

2014

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The innovation of environmental policies and their subsequent diffusion throughout the American states has been the subject of significant academic attention. Using an event history analysis, a traditional geographic model for policy diffusion is tested against a model where states learn from peer groups, defined by political culture. There is evidence for state learning within peer groups but less support for diffusion across state borders. Policy characteristics, environmental conditions, economic resources, and political constraints and opportunities are tested as drivers of differences in policy adoption. More than any other factor, politics and political culture explains the adoption of energy and climate-change policies. These results also suggest that restricted models that test geographical mechanisms of policy diffusion likely omit important characteristics that are correlated across states, leading to biased findings regarding the geographical state diffusion models in the extant literature.

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“…Competition, the final relational driver, captures the struggle between governments in contending for economic advantages through taxes and attracting business [16-18]. Policies that bestow a benefit on one jurisdiction, for example through establishing a lottery system and thus a new revenue stream that has the capacity to poach money from neighbours without a lottery, are thought to quickly diffuse amongst competitors in a race between governments for larger tax bases and financial gains [16-18]. These four relational mechanisms, in conjunction with theories describing the impact of policy entrepreneurs and the attributes of a policy, all have the capacity to affect the process of policy diffusion.…”

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Supporting the diffusion of healthy public policy in Canada: the Prevention Policies Directory

Politis

Halligan

Keen

et al. 2014

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Healthy public policy plays an essential role in a comprehensive public health approach to preventing cancer and chronic disease. Public policies spread through the ‘policy diffusion’ process, enabling governments to learn from another’s enacted policy solutions. The Prevention Policies Directory (the Directory), an online database of municipal, provincial/territorial, and federal cancer and chronic disease prevention policies from across Canada, was developed to facilitate the diffusion of healthy public policies and support the work of prevention researchers, practitioners, and policy specialists. This information technology solution was implemented, through a participatory engagement approach, as a communication channel or policy knowledge transfer tool. It also addressed the intrinsic shortcomings of environmental scanning for policy surveillance and monitoring. A combination of quantitative web metrics and qualitative anecdotal evidence have illustrated that the Directory is becoming an important tool for healthy public policy surveillance and policy diffusion in Canada.

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A Strategic Theory of Policy Diffusion via Intergovernmental Competition

Cited by 128 publications

References 24 publications

Public Information and Performance: The Role of Spatial Dependence in the Worldwide Governance Indicators among African Countries

Public Information and Performance: The Role of Spatial Dependence in the Worldwide Governance Indicators among African Countries

Kindred spirits or intergovernmental competition? The innovation and diffusion of energy policies in the American states (1990–2008)

Supporting the diffusion of healthy public policy in Canada: the Prevention Policies Directory

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