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American Governance and Public Policy series
About This Book
This book explores how policy ideas are spreadâor diffusedâin an age in which policymaking has become increasingly complex and specialized. Using the concept of enterprise zones as a case study in policy diffusion, Karen Mossberger compares the process of their adoption in Virginia, Indiana, Michigan, New York, and Massachusetts over a twelve-year period.
Enterprise zones were first proposed by the Reagan administration as a supply-side effort to reenergize inner cities, and they were eventually embraced by liberals and conservatives alike. They are a compelling example of a policy idea that spread and evolved rapidly. Mossberger describes the information networks and decisionmaking processes in the five states, assessing whether enterprise zones spread opportunistically, as a mere fad, or whether well-informed deliberation preceded their adoption.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: Diffusion and Decision Making in Five States
- 2. Decision-Making Models
- 3. Washington's Most Successful Nonprogram
- 4. Diffusion in the States: Old Wine in New Bottles?
- 5. Polydiffusion in an Intergovernmental Network
- 6. The Diffusion of a Policy Label
- 7. Informed Decision Making
- 8. A Decision-Making Continuum
- 9. Conclusion: Diffusion, Decision Making, and the Politics of Ideas
- Postscript
- Appendix 1. Methodology
- Appendix 2. Legislative Questions
- Appendix 3. Administrative Questions
- Appendix 4. Washington Interviews
- Appendix 5. Respondents
- Chapter Notes
- References
- Index