Greening America's Skylines
The Diffusion of Low‐Salience Policies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6330809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Koski (0000-0002-6475-4229, James Madison University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 93-117 |
| Publication date | 2010-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2009.00346.x |
| OpenAlex | W2077172395 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 57 |
The diffusion literature is replete with examples of highly salient policies spreading across subnational governments. However, low‐salience policies that do not benefit from a groundswell of public opinion also spread across jurisdictions in patterns that appear similar to those of other, more well‐known policy ideas. This research is an investigation of the mechanisms that propagate low‐salience policies. I analyze the adoption of the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Leadership in Energy Efficient Design standard across 119 U.S. cities from 2000 to 2008. The investigation indicates that a knowledge broker, in this case the USGBC, occupies critical roles in linking a low‐salience policy to a broader set of widely held societal values, developing a common policy vocabulary, providing a base policy that jurisdictions may freely adapt, and creating a diffusion infrastructure by acting as a communication hub for existing and interested jurisdictions to discuss innovations and progress
Economics · Opinion leadership · Political science · Public economics · Public opinion · Public policy · Public relations · Regional science · Salience (neuroscience · Salient · Sociology · Computer Science · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Administration · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Creating ‘healthy built environment’ legislation in Australia; a policy analysis
The diffusion of the Bookstart programme in Taiwan
Mitigating Global Warming in Global Cities
Managing policy‐making in the local climate governance landscape
Divisão de autoridade em Estados unitários e federais e difusão de políticas
Policy Diffusion Through Multiple Streams
Problems (and solutions) in the measurement of policy diffusion mechanisms
Rapid Diffusion and Policy Reform
Policy Innovation Adoption Across the Diffusion Life Course
Theories of the Policy Process
Policy by Doing
Collaborative diffusion
The Role of Pilot Projects in Urban Climate Change Policy Innovation
Interest groups and policy volatility
Learning from laboratory mistakes
Building Green
Holding Back the Storm
Public Entrepreneurs
Knowledge Transfer and Exchange
Closing the gap between research and practice
Utilization of social science research knowledge in Canada
Nursery Cities
Agendas, alternatives, and public policies
Influences on Reinvention During the Diffusion of Innovations
Political economy and the adoption of everyday environmental policies in the American states, 1997
Political economy and adoption of policies affecting everyday life in the American states
Spaces and scales of innovation
Addressing Public Risks
Decision Processes for Low Probability Events
When neighbours matter most
Urban innovation
Diffusion of Tobacco Control in North America
Integrating Knowledge Generation with Knowledge Diffusion and Utilization
Bottom‐Up Federalism
Policy Networks and Innovation Diffusion
Approaches to Modeling the Adoption and Diffusion of Policies with Multiple Components
Policy Diffusion as a Geographical Expansion of the Scope of Political Conflict
When a Policy's Time Has Come
State-Federal Diffusion and Policy Learning
The State-Local Nexus in Policy Innovation Diffusion
Regulatory Issue Networks in a Federal System
Modeling Regional Effects on State Policy Diffusion
Taking on Tobacco
Disentangling Diffusion
Policy Diffusion and Strategies for Promoting Policy Change
The Public Policy Process among Southeastern States
Policy Diffusion through Institutional Legitimation
Legislative Morality in the American States
The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion
States as Policy Laboratories
Policy Entrepreneurs and the Diffusion of Innovation
On Waves, Clusters, and Diffusion
Accelerating the Diffusion of Innovations Using Opinion Leaders
State Environmental Policies
State Lottery Adoptions as Policy Innovations
The Diffusion of Innovations among the American States
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |