Party Policy Diffusion

Böhmelt, Tobias; Ezrow, Lawrence; Lehrer, Roni; Ward, Hugh

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“…Also, the study of underlying assumptions of diffusion and the ideological use of decisions from other countries are questions of agenda-setting and issue-definition (not the adoption itself). Not only governments, parliaments and civil servants, but also parties think tanks and other political actors are key in these processes (Böhmelt et al 2016). Third, this proposed broader theoretical and empirical focus should come with greater diversity in research designs and methods, since standard approaches are not necessarily well adapted to studying the new questions outlined in this article (Gilardi 2016), not least because they often imply a focus on policy adoption that, as we have shown, prevents researchers from fully exploring the politics of policy diffusion.…”

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The politics of policy diffusion

Gilardi

Wasserfallen

2019

European J Political Res

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This article discusses the recent literature on policy diffusion and puts forward a new articulation of its political dimensions. Policy diffusion means that policies in one unit (country, state, city, etc.) are influenced by the policies of other units. The diffusion literature conceptualises these interdependencies with four mechanisms: learning, competition, coercion and emulation. The article identifies a model of diffusion that is dominant in the diffusion literature. According to this model, policies spread because decision makers evaluate the policy implications of the actions of other units. It is argued that the role of politics remains in the background in this model, and the article shows how going beyond a narrow focus on policy adoptions helps us to consider the politics of policy diffusion more explicitly.

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The politics of policy diffusion

Gilardi

Wasserfallen

2019

European J Political Res

140

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“…Following recent developments in the empirical literature on party competition (Williams, ; Williams and Whitten, ; Williams, Seki, and Whitten, ; Böhmelt et al., ), we estimate spatial temporal autoregressive models or “spatial lag models” (Franzese and Hays, , ). They are able to capture the spatial dependence among party positions directly.…”

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“…W y e – 1 is the product of this connectivity matrix and the policy positions of all other parties in the previous election. We do not row‐standardize the connectivity matrix (Plümper and Neumayer, ) as we assume that the amount of attention the focal party pays to other parties does depend on the number of rival parties (Williams, ; Williams and Whitten, ; Williams, Seki, and Whitten, ; Böhmelt et al., ).…”

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“…In sum, these arguments suggest that deliberation may help open the party to external voices, although they may not particularly be open to dialogue in many instances (see Meadowcroft, ). Hence, in a more democratically organized party, deliberation takes place and there is a higher chance of all points of view being considered—including rival parties’ policy positions (see Böhmelt et al., ). Finally, if a working consensus is achieved in a deliberative, more democratic party, it is less likely that the party elites can just ignore what has gone on at the “base” (Meadowcroft, ; Lehrer, ; Schumacher, Vries, and Vis, ).…”

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Intraparty Democracy and Responsiveness to Rival Parties’ Policies

Lehrer

Ezrow

Ward

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Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. We address whether intraparty democracy conditions political parties' responsiveness to rival parties' policy shifts. Method. We estimate parameters of a spatial econometric model of parties' policy positions in 11 established democracies. Results. Internally democratic parties respond to shifts in rival parties' policies, and internally undemocratic parties do not respond to rival parties' policy shifts. Conclusion. We argue that this occurs because intraparty deliberation provides a channel through which rival parties influence their competitors' policies. Because rank-and-file party members are influenced by deliberative processes more than party leaders-and the policy goals of internally democratic parties' policies are heavily influenced by their party membersdeliberative processes lead democratic parties to respond to shifts in rival parties' policy positions. This work has important implications for our understanding of parties' election strategies, intraparty politics, and how policies diffuse between parties competing in the same election.

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“…In this way, the work on comparative political economy meshes well with the long-running programme on the diffusion of policies, which started with work on the US states (Berry and Berry 1990), has become more theoretical in orientation (Shipan and Volden 2008), and has expanded to study international policies (e.g. Hays 2009; see also Graham et al 2013; Gilardi 2010 for reviews), and examines the diffusion of policies between political parties (Böhmelt et al 2016).…”

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Theories of Policy Change and Variation Reconsidered: A Prospectus for the Political Economy of Public Policy

John

2015

SSRN Journal

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Studies of decision-making in public policy may be conceived as three distinct ages of theory building and testing. The first was the classic period of studies of decisionmaking and rationality; the second was the age of synthesis when theories of decisionmaking were blended into accounts of agenda setting. The third-which is starting to take shape-is the age of the political economy of public policy, drawing on models and methods that have been applied to the study of international relations and comparative politics, which are increasingly addressing issues in public policy. The paper's argument offers a challenge to public policy scholars to use theory and approaches from political economy and to integrate them with classic and synthetic approaches. Insights from public policy approaches from the first two ages could also inform the political economy of public policy. The paper contains a review of the development of public policy theory in the 1990s; it provides an account of the recent period as one of relative stability; it then presents work in comparative political economy as examples of research on public policy.Keywords Public policy Á Political economy Á Decision-making So far there have been two ages in the study of decision-making in public policy: the firstthe classic period-was when key terms were defined. Debates took place about the nature of decision-making and the extent to which full information prevails. It was the time when incrementalism, the rational model, the stages heuristic and sectoral representations of decision-making processes were elaborated, notably set out as the second two lens in Allison's influential Essence of Decision (1971). The second and synthetic age was of complex accounts of decision-making, which produced the policy advocacy coalition framework, the garbage can and policy window metaphors, and the punctuated equilibrium model-the currency of many of today's policy scholars. In these frameworks of analysis,

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Party Policy Diffusion

Cited by 88 publications

References 116 publications

The politics of policy diffusion

The politics of policy diffusion

Intraparty Democracy and Responsiveness to Rival Parties’ Policies

Theories of Policy Change and Variation Reconsidered: A Prospectus for the Political Economy of Public Policy

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