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AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO POLICY TRANSER AND DIFFUSION
Author(s) -
Newmark Adam J.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
review of policy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1541-1338
pISSN - 1541-132X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2002.tb00269.x
Subject(s) - policy transfer , diffusion , diffusion of innovations , diffusion theory , economics , policy analysis , public economics , political science , positive economics , sociology , management science , public administration , social science , physics , thermodynamics
This article reviews the existing literature on policy transfer and diffusion and offers a more integrated theory for examining the spreading of policy. Typical studies have treated each as separate, yet they are similar in many respects. For example, both involve many of the same agents and processes involved in the spreading of policy. This article integrates the two literatures by developing a theoretical continuum upon which varying degrees of policy diffusion occur.