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ArticleThe review of policy research2022

Contagious COVID-19 policies: Policy diffusion during times of crisis.

Evan M Mistur, John Wagner Givens, Daniel C Matisoff

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Article in The review of policy research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
27.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Evan M MisturDepartment of Public Affairs University of Texas at Arlington Arlington Texas USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4261-2032
John Wagner GivensDepartment of International Studies Spelman College Atlanta Georgia USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0129-7152
Daniel C MatisoffSchool of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta Georgia USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4575-5282
Georgia Institute of Technology · USSpelman College · USThe University of Texas at Arlington · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 crisis demanded rapid, widespread policy action. In response, nations turned to different forms of social distancing policies to reduce the spread of the virus. These policies were implemented globally, proving as contagious as the virus they are meant to prevent. Yet, variation in their implementation invites questions as to how and why countries adopt social distancing policies, and whether the causal mechanisms driving these policy adoptions are based on internal resources and problem conditions or other external factors such as conditions in other countries. We leverage daily changes in international social distancing policies to understand the impacts of problem characteristics, institutional and economic context, and peer effects on social distancing policy adoption. Using fixed-effects models on an international panel of daily data from 2020, we find that peer effects, particularly mimicry of geographic neighbors, political peers, and language agnates drive policy diffusion and shape countries' policy choices.

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COVID‐19emulationpeer effectspolicy diffusionpolicy mimicry

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PMID35942305
PMCPMC9347821
OpenAlexW4281568534

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