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- Title
Which Legislators Pay Attention to Other States' Policies? Comparing Cosponsorship to Floor Voting in the Diffusion of Renewable Portfolio Policy.
- Authors
Parinandi, Srinivas C.; Langehennig, Stefani; Trautmann, Mark
- Abstract
Diffusion research has focused predominantly on analyzing collective decision making at the adoption stage. We evaluate diffusion at the level of the individual legislator and examine whether external cues play a stronger role in legislator decision making in cosponsorship versus adoption via floor voting. Leveraging data on successful and failed efforts across the U.S. states to adopt renewable portfolio standards (RPS), we show that the cue of ideological similarity matters more for RPS diffusion during adoption than cosponsorship. The result validates copious research that investigates external cues at adoption without considering that such cues might exert stronger influence earlier in lawmaking. Moreover, in devising a method to assess whether legislators are differentially receptive to cues from other states (here, we compared the baseline of adoption against cosponsorship), we provide scholars with a framework to further explore the question of whether external influence may be more pronounced among some legislators than others.
- Subjects
LEGISLATORS; POLICY diffusion; DECISION making in political science; FEDERAL government; LEGISLATION; U.S. state legislatures; INFLUENCE
- Publication
Policy Studies Journal, 2021, Vol 49, Issue 2, p408
- ISSN
0190-292X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/psj.12414