This article reviews the vibrant literature on policy growth in political science and adjacent
disciplines, thus offering a conceptual framework for situating past and future research …

The scholarship on policy diffusion in political science and public administration is
extensive. This article provides an introduction to that literature for scholars, students, and …

In public policy processes, collective learning among policy actors is important in sha**
how these processes unfold and the types of policy outcomes that may result. Despite a …

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 …

Research on how policies diffuse throughout the American federal system is robust and vast,
but there has yet to be a systematic accounting for its results. Using a systematic review and …

Studies of policy diffusion have given insufficient attention to the role that characteristics of
the policies themselves play in determining the speed of policy diffusion and the …

Comparative historical methods are used to explain the transformation of the US penal order
in the second half of the 20th century. The analysis of multiple state-level case studies and …

The transmission of ideas, information, and resources forms the core of many issues studied
in political science, including collective action, cooperation, and development. While these …

La agenda pública implica un proceso a través del cual determinados asuntos o problemas
públicos se posicionan, adquieren un interés general, y son trasladados al nivel de la …

How do the American states vary in their propensity for innovativeness, or their willingness
to adopt new policies sooner or later relative to other states? Most studies today use event …