The early wave of research on living wages used data covering only the initial years of the diffusion of the policy through U.S. cities, typically ending in 2002 or even earlier (see, e.g., Adams and Neumark (2004a, 2005a)).
This paper examines three economic policy innovations (privatization, central bank independence, and pension reform) and shows how the diffusion of these policies depended not only upon the mobility of American-trained Ph.D. economists to adopting countries, but also the state of agreement among economists on the value of these policy innovations.
Such criteria should rather emphasize the diverse, indirect yet valuable influences that SPIs can have on broader policy discourses including, for instance, agenda-setting and the diffusion of programmatic policy ideas (such as, for example, Emissions Trading Schemes).
First, Kingdon's concept of a convergence of three 'streams' (problem recognition, development and diffusion of policy alternatives, and political context) to achieve a ' window of opportunity' for a change in policy.
The implications of this analysis are to treat the creation and diffusion of economic policies as innovations that are subject to trial and error revision as well as to the changing consensus within an academic community.
I bring mixed methods (both qualitative and quantitative approaches) to questions of diffusion of innovations in policy and practice.
Ultimately, the lack of clinical and scientific knowledge on the risks and potential harm reduction benefits has led to precautionary policymaking, which often lacks grounding in empirical evidence and results in spatially uneven diffusion of policy.
He is currently working on the development of a joint text-citation model of legal rulings and a topic model of legislative bills containing texts copied from other bills, in order to elucidate the diffusion of precedents and policy ideas in different settings.
Although the current CoS emphasizes such abilities, as we saw in Study 1, the diffusion of an innovative policy is slow when its content is complex.
He is committed to the diffusion of research to policy and society.
