Policy Learning and Criminal Justice Reform in the U.S. States
| Autor: | Garrick L. Percival |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Public Administration Comparative case Political science 05 social sciences Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration 0211 other engineering and technologies Policy learning 02 engineering and technology Public administration 0506 political science Criminal justice |
| Zdroj: | State and Local Government Review. 52:321-332 |
| ISSN: | 1943-3409 0160-323X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0160323x21994890 |
| Popis: | This article investigates criminal justice reform in the U.S. states through a policy learning framework. A comparative case study of reform in Texas and California reveals a policy learning process conditioned by each state’s political environment. Republicans in Texas embraced reform after conservative policy entrepreneurs framed the issue in a manner that matched lawmakers’ core ideological beliefs. Republicans received no such messages in California. With few electoral incentives to support reform, Republicans in California demonstrated little interest in learning from the policy experiences of co-partisans in earlier adopting states. Overall, the analysis shows how policy learning shapes Republicans’ relative support for criminal justice reform and the dynamic ways Republican leadership on the issue helps facilitate state policy adoption. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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