Graeme Boushey

Policy Diffusion Dynamics in America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Policy Diffusion Dynamics in America explores why some policies spread more rapidly across states than others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9780521762816
• ISBN-10: 0521762812
• Artikelnr.: 30205537

Autorenporträt

Graeme Boushey is Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. His teaching and research are organized around practical and theoretical questions of state and federal policy-making. He recently co-authored a review of individual and organizational decision-making for the Handbook of Public Policy, and he has also co-authored an article in the Journal of Comparative Public Policy on immigration policy in federations.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Contagion in the laboratories of democracy
2. Incrementalism and policy outbreaks in the American states
3. Policy agents: innovation attributes and diffusion dynamics
4. Innovation hosts: state characteristics and diffusion dynamics
5. Policy vectors: interest groups and diffusion dynamics
6. Conclusion.