Several surveys attest to growing public concerns regarding privacy, aggravated by the diffusion of information technologies. A policy of self-regulation that allows individual companies to implement self-designed privacy statements is prevalent in the United States.These statements rarely provide specific privacy guarantees that personal information will be kept confidential. This study provid...

I demonstrate a source of bias in the common implementation of the dyadic event history model as applied to policy diffusion. This bias tends to severely overstate the extent to which policy changes depend on explicit emulation of other states rather than on a state’s internal characteristics. This happens because the standard implementation conflates policy emulation and policy adoption: since...

In 2004, the Western Australian state government announced and implemented policy incentives for first-home buyers in the form of either total conveyance duty (stamp duty) exemptions or significant reductions for specified price bands of housing. This paper analyses the impact of this policy on demand in the Perth housing market. Results confirm an immediate and significant impact on demand in ...

Abstract The present study seeks to contribute a better understanding of policy diffusion processes, more specifically, the process from transnational arena that influenced regulation Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for medicinal products in Brazil context surrounded by international authorities. By conducting qualitative research, we analyzed adhesion Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anv...