The study of diffusion and adoption of innovations in political science is incomplete and unable to answer the question why do policies diffuse? Additional information should be incorporated into the process. Specifically, rightly defining adoption events that are policy inventions leads to better distinction between major and minor policy changes. Merging two dominant and productive frameworks used for studying policy change-innovation, diffusion and adoption (IDA) framework, and Advocacy Coalition (AC) framework-we can incorporate contextual information more readily into an analysis of policy diffusion. I call this an Invention Based Approach (IBA). With the IBA I explicitly pursue historical events and critical junctures. In this dissertation I gain better understand of an invention event, resulting policy diffusion, and reinvention. I provide descriptive analysis of child adoption policy history in America prior to 1851 and analyze new data to buttress understanding policy invention. I show that conventional wisdom regarding how child adoption policy was created is wrong. I identify and describe important elements of belief for the major and minor coalition factions present at this time. The coalition variables receive limited support in diffusion models. Traditional indicators resource is supported. Other traditional indicators are insignificant which is supportive of the theory presented. Policy reinvention analysis also supports the theory that coalition replacement must occur before major policy change can occur. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Political Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Spring Semester, 2014. / April 8, 2014. / Advocacy Coalition Framework, Child Adoption, Invention Based Approach, Policy Diffusion, Policy Invention, Policy Studies / Includes bibliographical references. / Charles Barrilleaux, Professor Directing Dissertation; Lenore McWey, University Representative; Jason Barabas, Committee Member; Eric Coleman, Committee Member; Carol Weissert, Committee Member.
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| Contributors | Croom, Thomas M. (authoraut), Barrilleaux, Charles (professor directing dissertation), McWey, Lenore (university representative), Barabas, Jason (committee member), Coleman, Eric (committee member), Weissert, Carol (committee member), Department of Political Science (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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