Portable Innovation, Policy Wormholes, and Innovation Diffusion

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Yi, Hongtao; Chen, Wenna
• 署名单位: University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; City University of Hong Kong
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.13090
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 737-748
• 关键词: climate protection initiatives; CAREER MOBILITY; city-managers; cities; sustainability; networks; adoption; outcomes; IMPACT; energy

摘要

This article explores the effects of city managers' career paths on the diffusion of climate policy innovation among municipal governments in the United States. Using the agent network diffusion (AND) model, the authors hypothesize that local climate policy innovations are portable and that cities may learn from distant jurisdictions to which they are connected through the career paths of managers, a phenomenon termed the policy wormhole effect. Employing a dyadic panel data set of more than 400 Florida cities from 2005 to 2010, these hypotheses are tested using dyadic event history analysis. The results support both the portable innovation hypothesis and the policy wormhole hypothesis. Cities can facilitate the diffusion of policy innovations by paying special attention to the recruitment process of city managers.