Diffusion of Health Care Policy Innovation in the United States

Carter, Larry E.; LaPlant, James T.

doi:10.1177/0160323x9702900102

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“…Even Walker (1969, 896) highlighted "new lines of communication which extend beyond regional boundaries." More recently, scholars have argued that national forces, like the media and professional networks that operate through conferences and associations, might have supplanted the exclusive role of neighboring and regional states as policy models (Lieberman and Shaw 2000;Gray 1994;Winder and LaPlant 2000;Carter and LaPlant 1997). As a result, the diffusion of political forms and public policies might be better characterized as a national process than as a process that is driven by geographic proximity.…”

Section: Geographic Proximitymentioning

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“…Despite the many potential answers to this question, most diffusion research relies on a theoretically unsatisfying explanation that focuses on the potential impact of geographic proximity. Certainly, there is reason to question whether geography continues to exercise an important influence on policy diffusion in light of recent technological changes and the emergence of national communication networks (Lieberman and Shaw 2000;Gray 1994;Winder and LaPlant 2000;Carter and LaPlant 1997). But more important, geography does not provide a clear explanation of why policies diffuse among the states.…”

Section: Why Does Policy Diffusion Occur? a Research Agendamentioning

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Emerging Issues and Future Directions in State Policy Diffusion Research

Karch

2007

State Politics Policy Q.

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This article analyzes existing scholarship on the diffusion of public policies among the American states, focusing on recent developments in this line of research and suggesting several potential avenues for future work. The analysis is organized around three fundamental questions. First, why does policy diffusion occur? Answering this question will require scholars to devote more attention to concepts such as imitation, emulation, and competition. Second, which political forces facilitate or impede policy diffusion? Answering this question will require scholars to devote more attention to the causal mechanisms at work when states adopt policies like those of other states. Third, what is being diffused? Answering this question will require scholars to think more carefully about the content of public policy, both as an outcome to be explained and as a factor that itself affects the diffusion process.

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Section: Geographic Proximitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Why Does Policy Diffusion Occur? a Research Agendamentioning

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Emerging Issues and Future Directions in State Policy Diffusion Research

Karch

2007

State Politics Policy Q.

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“…Theories of federalism contend that decentralized policy making encourages a ''marketplace of ideas,'' as autonomous state governments develop new policies in response to locally severe problems (Oates 1999). Although scholars in the fields of political science and public health have developed a robust literature for modeling the spread of health policy innovations in the United States (Carter and LaPlant 1997;Shipan and Volden 2006;Pacheco 2012), we have only a limited understanding of how actively state governments engage in public health agenda setting prior to policy adoption. For instance, states may place health policy reforms on the agenda through committee hearings, floor resolutions, and bill introductions for years before finally passing a formal law addressing an emerging health policy concern.…”

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Public Health and Agenda Setting: Determinants of State Attention to Tobacco and Vaccines

Pacheco¹,

Boushey²

2014

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

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What determines government attention to emerging health issues? We draw on research in agenda setting and policy diffusion to explore the determinants of public health attention in the fifty American states. We find that intergovernmental influence has a strong and consistent influence over state attention to tobacco and vaccines from 1990 to 2010. While national attention to tobacco or vaccines also sparks attention in the states, this effect is smaller than the internal impact of gubernatorial attention and the horizontal influence of neighboring state attention. We find some support that problem severity matters; however, these results are highly dependent on the measures used. Finally, we find no evidence that interest groups influence the attention that states pay to tobacco or vaccines. Our results suggest that institutions play a critical role in explaining government attention to health policy.

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“…Several scholars have shown that professional legislatures are more likely to adopt new policies than semi-professional legislatures (e.g., Carter and LaPlant, 1997;Mossberger, 2000;Boushey, 2010). In this line of work, the effect of legislative professionalism on a state's policies is often modelled as additive and independent of other states' behavior, but an emerging strand of literature points out that professionalism can also condition the process of policy diffusion.…”

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Conditional tax competition in American states

Arel‐Bundock

Parinandi

2017

J. Pub. Pol.

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Cross-border commercial activity raises issues in federations where multiple jurisdictions can claim the right to tax the same income. In the United States, this coordination problem is resolved by splitting the tax base according to the geographic distribution of firms’ sales, capital and labour. The weight of each factor is determined on a state-by-state basis, which opens room for competitive legislative behaviour. In this complex issue area, however, policymakers must invest lot of resources to monitor competitors, evaluate policy alternatives and shepherd tax reform through the legislative process. This implies that highly professional legislatures should be more responsive to the policies of nearby states. We consider data on most American states over the period from 1986 to 2013 and find strong evidence of conditional spatial dependence. Our findings suggest that policy diffusion may often be moderated by institutional and political factors.

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Diffusion of Health Care Policy Innovation in the United States

Cited by 26 publications

References 18 publications

Emerging Issues and Future Directions in State Policy Diffusion Research

Emerging Issues and Future Directions in State Policy Diffusion Research

Public Health and Agenda Setting: Determinants of State Attention to Tobacco and Vaccines

Conditional tax competition in American states

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