The Diffusion of Policy Diffusion Research in Political Science

2012/09/24 by Erin R. Graham, Charles R. Shipan, Craig Volden · 27 citations
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · #Policy Transfer and Learning #Political Influence and Corporate Strategies #Electoral Systems and Political Participation

paper · doi:10.1017/s0007123412000415

Abstract

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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