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Specifying a Model of State Policy Innovation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Howard Frant ,
Frances Stokes Berry  and
William D. Berry
Howard Frant
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
Frances Stokes Berry
Affiliation:
Florida State University
William D. Berry
Affiliation:
Florida State University
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Abstract

How should policy innovations undertaken by states be modeled? Frances Stokes Berry and William D. Berry presented an event history analysis of the determinants of lottery adoptions by state governments in the June 1990 issue of this Review. Howard Front argues that the way Berry and Berry tested for interaction among variables is invalid on the grounds that what they take to be empirical results are only artifacts of the model specification. In response, the Berrys elaborate their original model and add alternative specifications.

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Controversies
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American Political Science Review , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , June 1991 , pp. 571 - 579
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1991

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