The Diffusion of Policy Diffusion Research in Political Science

Over the past fifty years, top political science journals have published hundreds of articles about policy diffusion. This article reports on network analyses of how the ideas and approaches in these articles have spread both within and across the subfields of American politics, comparative politics...

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Published inBritish journal of political science Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 673 - 701
Main Authors Graham, Erin R., Shipan, Charles R., Volden, Craig
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.07.2013
Subjects
Academic disciplines
American literature
Comparative Politics
Diffusion theory
Government
Innovation diffusion
International political organizations
International politics
International Relations
Network Analysis
Policy analysis
Political research
Political Science
Political science fields
Politics
Public policy
Review Article
Scholarship
State politics
Trends
U.S.A
United States environmental policy
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Summary:Over the past fifty years, top political science journals have published hundreds of articles about policy diffusion. This article reports on network analyses of how the ideas and approaches in these articles have spread both within and across the subfields of American politics, comparative politics and international relations. Then, based on a survey of the literature, the who, what, when, where, how and why of policy diffusion are addressed in order to identify and assess some of the main contributions and omissions in current scholarship. It is argued that studies of diffusion would benefit from paying more attention to developments in other subfields and from taking a more systematic approach to tackling the questions of when and how policy diffusion takes place.
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ISSN:0007-1234
1469-2112
DOI:10.1017/S0007123412000415