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Langevin, Warren. and Springer, Matthew. "Modeling Policy Adoption and Implementation in State Government: The Political Economy of Teacher Competency Testing" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Hotel Intercontinental, New Orleans, LA, Jan 09, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p213008_index.html>

Langevin, W. E. and Springer, M. G. , 2008-01-09 "Modeling Policy Adoption and Implementation in State Government: The Political Economy of Teacher Competency Testing" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Hotel Intercontinental, New Orleans, LA <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p213008_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Many political scientists recognize policy entrepreneurs as powerful actors in recent debates over the balance of government regulation and market competition in contemporary society. Yet the scholarly literature has largely neglected the role of state administrators, who are responsible for the translation of policy into practice. Building on recent advances in the study of policy diffusion, we review current theories of state adoption and implementation and propose a new methodological approach to examine teacher competency testing. While most states required competency tests for prospective teachers at the turn of the twentieth century when a college diploma was not required for licensure (Sandefur 1987), the practice of competency testing was progressively replaced by higher standards for college preparation and subject knowledge. This paper explores scholarly explanations for why states returned to competency testing (Nice 1990). By creating a longitudinal design that examines state adoption and implementation, we provide a more complex and theoretically interesting set of conclusions for the state politics literature. Our research strategy views the policy process as a multistage process, following the work of Nicholson-Crotty (2004), and examines state adoption with a Cox proportional hazards model and policy implementation with a continuous time model. Preliminary results show state adoption is significantly related to political ideology, citizen demographics, and neighboring state decisions, but political and economic factors exhibit a proportionately weaker effect on the duration of implementation.

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