When the Smoke Clears: Interstate vs. Intrastate Diffusion of Youth Access Policies
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In federal systems, governments can learn from the external policy experiments of other governments or from the internal experiments of lower levels of government. In this paper we explore the degree to which states traded off these two forms of learning in their youth access antismoking adoptions between 1996 and 2005. Using a dyad-year event history analysis, we find that states were more likely to imitate states that successfully limited youth smoking, as well as states that were similar in their producers and consumers of cigarettes. States with extensive local experimentation with antismoking policies aimed at youths are less likely to simply copy other similar states but are still as likely to learn from others’ successes. Finally, state politics influenced these relationships, as states with more professional legislatures were more likely to learn from both internal experimentation and external successes than were less professional legislatures. * Prepared for presentation at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago. The authors thank the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for financial support and Jamie Chriqui for providing us with the updated version of the National Cancer Institute’s State Cancer Legislative Database. In addition, local tobacco control ordinance data was provided by the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation Local Tobacco Control Ordinance Database©.
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