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Information and Innovation in a Networked World
Information and Innovation in a Networked World
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This paper wild be organized as follows. First, it will briefly discuss some distinctive features of the diffusion process in the public sector.
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of course. a substantial body of literature on the diffusion of policy innovations - and adjacent topics such as policy networks, policy transfer, and policy convergence.
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The public sector in contrast has relatively little incentive to suppress information about successful innovations Third. zenith survival less of an issue and relative performance more dit-f~cult to measure, bureaucratic inertia is likely a greater barrier to adopting successful innovations in the public sector than in the private.
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Spatial networks are often broken by spatial 'chasms'—mountains. rivers, or climate in a geographic context, buildings in an organizational context, railroad tracks and highways within communities between which little information flows.
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the conditions under which then tvpicaliv arise limits their potential as conduits of information since for snort of the cases enumerated above, the well connected nodes only send information, and do not receive. That is, one Night imagine a power law world where the exceptionally well connects recei`;e`1 as much as they sent; howex er, in the policy DYNAMIC SOCKS HETWO~MODEL~G ED CYSTS 105
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It s~;ouId presumably choose ties with those who have the most pop ate information. Those ~ ith Iess information would be in a less of a position to be so picky.
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and emergent informational networks in the public sector world will tend to be inefficient at spreading inivrn~ation. However.
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It will the 40C%o less time for irlHovatlon to spread{. ,~Iternat;.Yely, what is the impact of simply accentuating the existing spatial network by cloubling the neighborhood with which an actor communicates?
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Generally, the absence of property nights discourages investment in producing inflation in the public sector (although see caveats to this general proposition below) .7 A system that is more effective at spreading information.
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a government will occasionally look at what a small number of other governments are doing -- if none hare ~ clearly superior alternative, that go`'ern~nent may experiment. A successful innovation somewhere in the system will spread slowly, Galore technically.
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Heterogeneity in underlying policy objectives should therefore help maintain a diversity of policy approaches (although limit the benefits to policy diffusion as well)
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in the adoption process; and every bandwagon would contain the seeds of its own destruction since the bandwagon would create a body of data about its failings. The potential of success/failure info~rnation to eliminate bandwagons depends on (:l ~ the lag between adoption and successifaiTure data; (2)
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develops anti disseminates best practices. However arguably, the federal government focuses more of its analytical capacities on cleveloping its own mandates lather than enabling, state and local governments develop their policies.
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The shift from relatively geographically bound networks to global networks should greatly increase the informational efficiency of international policy networks. Yet by increasing the rate at which successful innovations spread through the systen~ globalization may discourage policy expenn~entation due to free aiding and premature policy convergence.
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1990. "State Lottery Adoptions as Policy Innovations: An Extent History Analysis,' Ante~icc~n Political Science Review.
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Pt'l'/ic Acin~nistrati`~z Remelt 57, ~ (JanuaryFebmary 19974:45-59 DYNAMIC SOCIAL NETWORK MODELING AND ANALYSIS
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:1997. The importance of social networks concerning the diffusion of new communication technology." Kol,~er Zeitschrift Fir So~ivIr~gie ``nd So ialps~cI~olog~e, 49: 35-.
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