The Role of Agenda Setting in Policy Innovation

Hays, Scott P.; Glick, Henry R.

doi:10.1177/1532673x9702500405

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“…Berry and Jaccard (2001) argue that RPS use is spreading. For RPS and similar policies, the spreading phenomenon of certain clean-energy policies may be due to a relationship between regional diffusion and policies that lead to competition between neighbouring states (Hays and Glick 1997).…”

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

Environmental Politics

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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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Section: Competition Drives Policy Diffusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Matisoff

Edwards

2014

Environmental Politics

100

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“…6 That literature tends to use states or municipalities as units of analysis, exploring how external factors, such as the policy choices of proximate jurisdictions, and internal factors, such as available resources, affect adoption (e.g. Allen and Clark 1981;Pavalko 1989;Hays and Glick 1997) tend to analyse them as unitary actors, often using their traits, such as susceptibility to lobbying, to explain adoption trends. Adoption is often evidenced by the presence of a policy in a jurisdiction where it previously was absent.…”

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Policy learning and science policy innovation adoption by street-level bureaucrats

Arnold¹

2014

J. Pub. Pol.

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This article investigates the conditions under which government officials who implement policy integrate the best available science into regulatory practice. It examines the adoption of rapid wetland assessment tools, a type of science policy innovation, by street-level bureaucrats in six US Mid-Atlantic states. These bureaucrats operate in relatively opaque and discretion-laden institutional settings. The analysis of an original survey of state wetland officials shows that these officials are more likely to adopt tools when they have more opportunities to learn tool-related information and practice norms. Bureaucrats' adoption of this class of science policy innovations appears facilitated by peer communication via network ties, on-the-job experience and incentives and disincentives associated with bureaucrats' organisational contexts and operating environments.

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“…Mayhew 2004;Karch 2007). For example, Hays and Glick (1997) argue that the mass media can be a predictor of living will laws because of its ability to influence public opinion, and in turn would make the policy adoption of living will laws more likely (Hays and Glick 1997). 4 Besides the connection to the mass media and public opinion, the media also has the ability to disseminate information to a large geographic area through media markets.…”

Section: Tobacco Policy Policy Diffusion and The Mass Mediamentioning

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Examining media markets’ influence on the diffusion of antismoking legislation in US counties

Mitchell

2016

Local Government Studies

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This article assesses the role of mass media markets in the diffusion of antismoking legislation in the state of Missouri in the US. Testing multiple diffusion theories, this study finds that media markets can facilitate the diffusion of policies among local jurisdictions by exacerbating intercounty competition. More attention should be given to media markets when assessing policy diffusion mechanisms at the local level. Media markets can be an important source for policy information conveyance among counties over a large geographic area. Furthermore, traditional diffusion studies that rely on geographical contiguity measures may not be completely capturing the existence of diffusion by excluding media markets.

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The Role of Agenda Setting in Policy Innovation

Cited by 74 publications

References 15 publications

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

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

Policy learning and science policy innovation adoption by street-level bureaucrats

Examining media markets’ influence on the diffusion of antismoking legislation in US counties

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