This chapter reviews the dominant theories of government innovation in the public policy
literature. It shows that these theories borrow heavily from others developed to explain …

Adapting to some level of climate change has become unavoidable. However, there is
surprisingly limited systematic knowledge about whether and how adaptation policies have …

Context: Social distancing is an essential but economically painful measure to flatten the
curve of emergent infectious diseases. As the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 …

As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the price Over
the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally …

A political science analysis of the feasibility and sustainability of carbon pricing, drawing
from North American, European, and Asian case studies. Climate change, economists …

This article puts forward four strategies to improve policy diffusion research in political
science:(1) use existing concepts consistently and improve their measurement,(2) clarify …

Public mask use has emerged as a key tool in response to COVID-19. We develop a
classification of statewide mask mandates that reveals variation in their scope and timing …

States adopt policy innovations within the confines of a dynamic American federal system,
but our study of policy diffusion tends to be fairly static. Single‐policy studies incorporate …

This essay discusses how scholarship on state politics and policy, intergovernmental
relations, and federalism provides necessary context for understanding governmental …

Scholars have suggested that interest groups affect the diffusion of innovations across states
by creating a network of information between the states that aids in the spread of policy …