Burke, Brendan Francis; PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, 2000
POLITICAL SCIENCE, GENERAL (0615); POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(0617); TRANSPORTATION (0709)
Political science research on innovation diffusion has arrived at an orthodox
explanation, mainly devoted
to the traditional policy determinants literature. This dissertation expands
the explanation into a pattern of
four different policy processes, Convention, Collaboration, Competition, and
Contagion, each of which
has a varied set of determinants for the diffusion of innovations. The four
process types are tested using
event history analysis, applied to recent innovations in the area of transportation
policy.
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