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Volden, Craig. "States as Policy Laboratories: Experimenting with the Children's Health Insurance Program" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 27, 2003 <Not Available>. 2008-10-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p62116_index.html>

Volden, C. , 2003-08-27 "States as Policy Laboratories: Experimenting with the Children's Health Insurance Program" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2008-10-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p62116_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: For more than a decade, scholars of policy diffusion across the states have relied on state-year event history analyses. Such work has been limited by: (1) focusing mainly on neighbor-to-neighbor diffusion paths, rather than other similarities across states; (2) neglecting the role of the success or failures of policies in their diffusion; (3) studying singular specific policy adoptions rather than the choice among an array of policy variants; and (4) setting aside questions about how diffusion mechanisms vary across different policies and different political processes. This paper proposes the alternative approach of dyad-year event history analysis, commonly used in international relations, and applies it to the study of policy diffusion in Children’s Health Insurance Program from 1998-2001. This approach uncovers strong evidence of the emulation of states with similar political, demographic, and budgetary characteristics, and those with successful policies. Moreover, the diffusion mechanisms differ substantially across different policy types and political processes.

Policy Diffusion and Administrative Policy Adoption: Do State Medical Boards Mimic Similar Ones?

Modeling Policy Adoption and Implementation in State Government: The Political Economy of Teacher Competency Testing