IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/publus/v52y2022i4p553-578..html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Laboratories of Bureaucracy: How Bureaucrats Learn across States in Setting Early Childhood Education Standards
[Making the national local: Specifying the conditions for national government influence on state policymaking]

Author

Listed:
  • Kelly B Smith

Abstract

How and under what conditions might bureaucrats look to other states? Using a novel dataset of state early learning standards, I conduct dyad analysis to explain across-state citations in bureaucratic documents. Federal government programs can affect which states are looked to for ideas by defining which states are successful through competitive grant programs. Furthermore, the success of programs within the state affect whether bureaucrats look to other states. This article makes two important contributions to our understanding of policy. First, it explores how bureaucrats can participate in policy knowledge diffusion by looking to other states for information. Second, it sheds light on how we measure states as laboratories by marshaling an innovative dataset of citations within state documents. The article suggests states may not be limited to acting as laboratories through electoral institutions, but rather, they may also innovate as laboratories of bureaucracy.

Suggested Citation

  • Kelly B Smith, 2022. "Laboratories of Bureaucracy: How Bureaucrats Learn across States in Setting Early Childhood Education Standards [Making the national local: Specifying the conditions for national government influen," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, CSF Associates Inc., vol. 52(4), pages 553-578.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:publus:v:52:y:2022:i:4:p:553-578.
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/publius/pjac010
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Brandon R Davis, 2023. "State Incarceration Policy in the U.S. Federal System: Assessing Recent Approaches to Reducing Incarceration Rates," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, CSF Associates Inc., vol. 53(3), pages 484-510.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:publus:v:52:y:2022:i:4:p:553-578.. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://academic.oup.com/publius .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.