Influences on Reinvention during the Diffusion of Innovations

Hays, Scott P.

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“…Studies have found that professionalism is associated with greater policy innovation (Hayes 1996;Rosenthal 1998Rosenthal , 1991 and increased spending in general (Squire and Hamm 2005). Professional legislatures are also likely to have more Democrats than legislatures less professionally constituted (Fiorina 1994).…”

Section: Legislative Professionalismmentioning

confidence: 97%

Politics, Interest Groups and State Funding of Public Higher Education

2010

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State support of public higher education has rapidly declined relative to total state spending. Much of this decline in support is due to the rapid growth in spending on such things as Medicaid. However, relative support of public higher education varies significantly between states. This study applies Tandberg's (2009) fiscal policy framework created to explain state support of public higher education in order to evaluate the relationship between various factors and states' relative support of higher education. While Tandberg's fiscal policy framework accounts for traditional economic and demographic factors in explaining state support for higher education, it also draws attention to political influences as well including the impact of state-level interest groups. Using cross-sectional time-series analysis these relationships are explored over a 19-year period. The findings provide evidence of the significant impact of interest groups and politics on state fiscal policy in regard to higher education.

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Section: Legislative Professionalismmentioning

confidence: 97%

Politics, Interest Groups and State Funding of Public Higher Education

2010

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“…Articles most often examined the diffusion of policies related to capital punishment, sentencing, and hate crime. Interestingly, other key criminal Glick, 1981Courts 1960s-1970s C, R Grattet, 1998 Hate crime 1977-1995 EHA Grossback, 2004Sentencing 1981-1994EHA Haider-Markel, 1998 Hate crime by 1995 R Hays, 1996Victims' rights 1965R Hollinger, 1988 Computer justice areas-such as policing-were not examined in the studies uncovered in this review, perhaps because decisions about these kinds of policies are less frequently made at the state level. The question of whether the factors that affect the diffusion of criminal justice policies differ across different criminal justice areas is considered in the next three sections of this review.…”

Section: A Portrait Of the Criminal Justice Policy Diffusion Literaturementioning

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“…Nine other analyses (Grattet et al, 1998;Hays, 1996;Mooney & Lee, 2000;Nice, 1992;Soule & Earl, 2001;Williams, 2003, for truth-in-sentencing policies, threestrikes sentencing policies, juvenile transfer policies, and correctional boot camps) used a second popular measure from the political science literature to operationalize political ideology: Erikson, Wright, and McIver's (1993) public opinion-focused measure (Brace et al, 2004;Wright, Erikson, & McIver, 1985). (Mooney & Lee [2000], used Berry and colleagues' [1998] measures in their analysis of the diffusion of laws related to the abolition of the death penalty prior to 1972 and used Erikson and colleagues' [1993] measure in their analysis of the diffusion of laws related to the reinstatement of the death penalty after 1972.)…”

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How and Why Do Criminal Justice Public Policies Spread Throughout U.S. States? A Critical Review of the Diffusion Literature

Bergin

2011

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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Why do some criminal justice public policies spread rapidly throughout U.S. states, and other policies never take hold? To answer this question, this article presents the first review specifically of studies that have examined the diffusion of criminal justice policies throughout U.S. states. After a comprehensive review of key research databases, 23 studies are identified. The key findings of these studies are analyzed in great depth, with particular reference to cross-study differences in how three variables from the general policy literature-geographic proximity, political ideology, and media attention-were operationalized. The article identifies important gaps in current knowledge about the factors that affect the diffusion of criminal justice policies and suggests several directions for future research in this area.

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“…Rogers (1995) proposed that reinvention can be spurred by a variety of factors, including: Although Rogers called for further research on reinvention especially from an organizational perspective (versus user-adopted technologies, which have been extensively studied), few researchers have focused on reinvention. Hays (1996) studied how state policies enacted as laws were reinvented as they were diffused into subsequent states, finding that policies were reinvented based on a combination of social learning, political characteristics, and contextual factors. Lewis and Seibold (1993) consider two components of innovation reinvention, distinguishing between fidelity (how well the reinvention matches the original intent of the design or intended use) and uniformity (referring to the degree of similarity of use across users).…”

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Reinvention of interorganizational systems: A case analysis of the diffusion of a bio-terror surveillance system

Fedorowicz

Gogan

2009

Inf Syst Front

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Innovation diffusion theory proposed that adopters-whether individuals or organizations-sometimes reinvent an innovation as they gain experience using it. Reinvention can enhance (or impede) the likelihood of an IS innovation's acceptance and further diffusion. This paper reports on a case study of BioSense, an interorganizational system that was designed as an early detection tool for bio-terror attacks and subsequently modified to better serve this need as well as to operate as a public health system for pinpointing geographic clusters of dangerous/ acute disease outbreaks. By examining the interplay among the political and organizational dynamics and technical properties of the BioSense system, we shed light on processes affecting reinvention in an interorganizational context. We discuss our findings in light of theories of the diffusion and reinvention of innovations. We use Rogers' (1995) list of factors supporting reinvention to structure the discussion of the fidelity and uniformity of the innovation within the processes it supports in adopting health services organizations.

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Influences on Reinvention during the Diffusion of Innovations

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Politics, Interest Groups and State Funding of Public Higher Education

How and Why Do Criminal Justice Public Policies Spread Throughout U.S. States? A Critical Review of the Diffusion Literature

Reinvention of interorganizational systems: A case analysis of the diffusion of a bio-terror surveillance system

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