Modeling State Firearm Law Adoption Using Temporal Network Models
DUNCAN A. CLARK,
JAMES MACINKO,
MAURIZIO PORFIRI
Abstract:Policy Points
Promoting healthy public policies is a national priority, but state policy adoption is driven by a complex set of internal and external factors.
This study employs new social network methods to identify underlying connections among states and to predict the likelihood of new firearm‐related policy adoption given changes to this interstate network.
This approach could be used to assess the likelihood that a given state will adopt a specific new firearm‐related law and to identify points of influen… Show more
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