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State Lottery Adoptions as Policy Innovations: An Event History Analysis

Berry, Frances Stokes, Berry, William D.·1990·American Political Science Review
DOI 10.2307/1963526
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Two types of explanations of state government innovation have been proposed:internal determinants models (which posit that the factors causing a state government to innovate are political, economic, and social characteristics of a state) and regional diffusion models (which point toward the role of policy adoptions by neighboring states in prompting a state to adopt). We show that the two are conceptually compatible, relying on Mohr's theory of organizational innovation. Then we develop and test a unified explanation of state lottery adoptions reflecting both internal and regional influences. The empirical results provide a great degree of support for Mohr's theory. For the empirical analysis, we rely on event history analysis, a form of pooled cross-sectional time series analysis, which we believe may be useful in a wide variety of subfields of political science. Event history analysis may be able to explain important forms of political behavior (by individuals, organizations, or governments) even if they occur only rarely.

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Authors
Berry, F. S., & Berry, W. D.
Venue
American Political Science Review
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1990-06
Volume
84
Issue
2
Pages
395-415
ISSN
  • 0003-0554 (ISSN-L)
  • 1537-5943
DOI
10.2307/1963526
OpenAlex
W2000684188
Cited by
1,698
References
0
FWCI
19.04
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 8827 d)

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