Kindred spirits or intergovernmental competition? The innovation and diffusion of energy policies in the American states (1990–2008)

Environmental Politics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 795-817

  Matisoff, Daniel C ^a   Edwards, Jason ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

event history analysis; policy adoption; policy diffusion; policy innovation; state climate change policy; state energy policies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918815692     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2014.923639     Document Type: Article

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