The Consequences of Legislative Term Limits for Policy Diffusion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6340634 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan M Miller (0000-0001-7188-7778, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA, corresponding author), Jill Nicholson-Crotty (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA), Jill Nicholson‐crotty (Indiana University Bloomington), Sean Nicholson-Crotty, Sean Nicholson‐crotty (0000-0003-2297-6939, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 573-585 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1065912917749891 |
| OpenAlex | W2794203964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 52 |
Policy diffusion scholarship has long sought to understand when lawmakers will imitate innovations adopted by other jurisdictions and when they actually invest the time and resources necessary to learn about potential policies. We develop the theoretical rationale that term limits will reduce the incentive and capacity of state legislatures to gather information about policies available from previous adoptions in other states. We hypothesize that this will decrease the importance of previous adopters when term-limited legislators consider policy innovations. A multilevel analysis of the diffusion of eighty-seven policies between 1960 and 2009 provides support for this expectation. Our findings provide insight into the way in which institutional features shape policy diffusion
Business · Diffusion · Economic growth · Economics · Incentive · Law and economics · Legislature · Microeconomics · Political science · Public economics · Scholarship · State (computer science · Term (time · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |