Policy Diffusion Through Multiple Streams: The (Non‐)Adoption of Energy Conservation Building Code in India

Goyal, Nihit

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“…The information on the policy consequences of policy tourism can also influence the willingness of city governments to act. In this sense, top-down institutional pressure does exist (Goyal, 2021). This further demonstrates the appropriateness of the variable selection.…”

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confidence: 68%

Executive leadership, policy tourism, and policy diffusion among local governments

Liu

2022

Public Administration Review

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Policy tourism is an important but rarely studied phenomenon describing a widespread practice, through which local public and business leaders form delegations, choose target cities, and implement intercity policy diffusion, business exchange, and economic collaboration. Our research examines how executive leadership characteristics, city-level contextual factors, and interdependence mechanisms relate to cities' decisions to visit. Using two-stage probit selection models with instrumental variables on a dyadic balanced panel dataset recording all policy tourism events between major U.S. cities from 2007 to 2016, we answer this question accounting for potential endogeneity problems. Our findings suggest that cities with experienced yet newly appointed, minority leaders tend to visit cities with experienced white or female leaders. Additionally, policy tourism happens among cities embedded in highly complex, munificent, and turbulent environments. Finally, cities tend to learn from peers with higher economic prosperity or interact with their competitors. Evidence for Practice• Local public and business leaders form delegations, which facilitate intercity policy diffusion. • Cities tend to visit competitors that are similar to them in demographic, political, and socio-economic characteristics, but with a better economic trajectory. • Intercity visits happen among cities experiencing high environmental complexity, munificence, and turbulence.

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Executive leadership, policy tourism, and policy diffusion among local governments

Liu

2022

Public Administration Review

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“…Moreover, with ongoing technological developments in renewable energy and energy storage, small "energy regions" can spur the transition by altering power dynamics and infrastructure ownership to facilitate economic development and promote energy justice [198,199]. In addition, such a decentralized setup has been conceived as a fertile ground for experimentation and learning; studies that examine diffusion and lesson-drawing at the subnational level can also help identify mechanisms through which policy innovations can scale up and catalyze the energy transition [200][201][202]. Importantly, an effort in this direction should cover states and cities, towns, or villages in eastern and north-eastern India too.…”

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Limited Demand or Unreliable Supply? A Bibliometric Review and Computational Text Analysis of Research on Energy Policy in India

Goyal

2021

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Although India has made significant progress towards the sustainable development goal on energy (SDG 7), further policy innovations are essential for closing the gap, addressing geographic disparities, and harnessing energy for transformative change. Research can support this process by creating policy-relevant knowledge regarding the energy transition, but there is no systematic account of the literature pertaining to energy policy in India to map the research area and suggest key avenues for future research. In this study, I conduct a bibliometric review and computational text analysis of over 2700 publications to identify the key themes, geographies, and public policy concepts (not) examined in the research on energy policy in India. I find that: (i) the literature is dominated by topics in energy supply and less attention is paid to demand-side management, energy efficiency, and electricity distribution; (ii) existing studies have hardly examined subnational policy (-making), especially in the case of eastern and north-eastern India; and (iii) research on both analysis for policy and analysis of policy is limited. I conclude that the current foci lack the breadth and depth necessary for supporting the Indian energy transition and urge scholars to diversify the thematic, geographic, and conceptual engagement in future research.

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“…In our second MSF article, Nihit Goyal (2022) combine theory from diffusion and innovation and MSF to examine how the diffusion of policy innovations contribute to sustainability. Goyal tests several hypotheses on the limited spread of the energy conservation building code (ECBC) in India, from 2012 to 2018.…”

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Policy Studies Journal

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Welcome everyone to PSJ issue 50(3)! Before we jump into this issue, we have a few announcements to make. First, we would like to announce the severing of one partnership and the beginning of another. For the past couple of years, PSJ received generous support from the University of Tennessee's Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy. We thank the center and Dr. Matt Murray, the former director, as well as Dr. Marianne Wannamaker, the current director, for the brief but constructive relationship over the past two years. Endings are often beginnings, as is the case here. We are also pleased to announce the new partnership between the PSJ, the premier policy theory journal, and the Syracuse University Maxwell School's Center for Governance and Policy Design, one of the top policy schools in the world. We know this new partnership will continue to develop public policy scholarship in meaningful ways. Stay tuned as to how.Our second announcement is that we have some new information about PSJ's impact metrics. Clarivate is now reporting that PSJ's 2021 two-year impact factor is 4.775 which ranks PSJ #16 out of 187 Clarivate-indexed Political Science journals. PSJ also sustains a record high 2021 Scopus CiteScore of 9.2 and ranks #2 out of 160 Scopus-indexed Political Science and International Relations journals and #20 out of 1345 Sociology and Political Science journals. In short, the state of PSJ continues to be strong. That has everything to do with you: PSJ's dedicated authors, reviewers, and readership.In this issue, we have three collections of studies from three different theoretical approaches to the study of the policy process: Policy Feedback (e.g., Davis, 2021), Punctuated Equilibrium Theory (PET) (e.g., Park & Sapotichine, 2020), and the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) (e.g., Dolan, 2021). As we would expect from PSJ, the theoretical contributions in this issue are substantial: new pathways to efficacious behavior in policy feedback (Lacombe, 2022), a provocative theory-method case by PET scholars for better understanding variance and incrementalism (Fernández-i-Marín et al., 2022), and modified hypotheses for MSF (DeLeo & Duarte, 2022), among other contributions. Substantively, in this issue, we have research covering the Affordable Care Act (ACA), firearm policy, environmental policy, energy policy, highway infrastructure, and much more! In what follows, we summarize some highlights from the collections of rigorous and theoretically sophisticated pieces that PSJ was fortunate to receive and review.

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Policy Diffusion Through Multiple Streams: The (Non‐)Adoption of Energy Conservation Building Code in India

Cited by 19 publications

References 127 publications

Executive leadership, policy tourism, and policy diffusion among local governments

Executive leadership, policy tourism, and policy diffusion among local governments

Limited Demand or Unreliable Supply? A Bibliometric Review and Computational Text Analysis of Research on Energy Policy in India

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