1. Conditional diffusion: Smoke free air legislation and tobacco taxation policies in the United States 1970-2007.
- Author
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Martin, Christian
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SMOKING policy , *SMOKING laws , *TOBACCO taxes , *JURISDICTION - Abstract
The notion of policy diffusion has recently come under closer scrutiny as researchers tried to disentangle the various channels through which policies diffuse across jurisdictional boundaries (e.g.: learning vs. competition). At the same time, researchers became interested in the question of how to differentiate between genuine diffusion and common exogenous shocks. What has been largely overlooked so far is the way in which diffusion influences interact with political and institutional conditions within jurisdictions. This paper argues that the same diffusion influence can exert different effects depending on the political and institutional conditions in the jurisdiction subject to this influence. I thus propose modeling the effect of diffusion processes as conditional upon the political and institutional specifics of jurisdictions. As an example of this approach, the paper studies diffusion influences and their conditional effects in the context of smoke free air legislation and tobacco taxation in the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Using data for the time from 1970-2007, I show that effects of diffusion change considerably if state-level political conditions (control of state legislature) are taken into account. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009