Adapting to some level of climate change has become unavoidable. However, there is surprisingly limited systematic knowledge about whether and how adaptation policies have diffused could diffuse in the future. Most existing studies do not explicitly examine policy diffusion, which a form interdependent policy-making among jurisdictions at same or across different levels governance. To address t...

In his recent study, Gordon Shen analyses a pertinent question facing the global mental health research and practice community today; that of how and why mental health policy is or is not adopted by national governments. This study identifies becoming a World Health Organization (WHO) member nation, and being in regional proximity to countries which have adopted a mental health policy as suppor...

in his recent study, gordon shen analyses a pertinent question facing the global mental health research and practice community today; that of how and why mental health policy is or is not adopted by national governments. this study identifies becoming a world health organization (who) member nation, and being in regional proximity to countries which have adopted a mental health policy as suppor...

This work intends to explain step-by-step the special role of standards and their complexity in exercising innovation policy in the European Union. Standards might be an important policy tool for intentional diffusion of market sectors beyond textually available official policy documents/guidelines. This diffusion, having been initiated intentionally, continues in a self-regulated way as the in...

Consider a system with K parallel single-servers, each with its own waiting room. Upon arrival, a job is to be routed to the queue of one of the servers. Finding routing policy that minimizes the total workload in the system is a known difficult problem in general. Even if the optimal policy is identified, the policy would require the full queue length information at the arrival of each job; fo...

CONTEXT Complete Streets policies guide planning in communities by making the transportation system accommodating to all users including vehicle drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists, as well as those using public transportation. While the number of Complete Streets policies has increased over the past decade, no research has explored the factors attributing to the widespread diffusion of these ...

Studies of the diffusion of policies and institutions tend to focus on innovations that successfully spread across governments. Implicit in such diffusion is the abandonment of the previous policy or institution. Yet, little is known about whether governments abandon policies that have failed elsewhere, as would be consistent with states acting as policy laboratories not only for policy success...

This paper analyzes the nature of e-commerce policy actions in three European countries. Compiling the EU and national policy instruments into four groups (regulation and legislation, knowledge diffusion, economic incentives and e-government), France is viewed as a front-runner with early Minitel applications but loosing steam during the EC rush. Germany is the European EC power house with a la...