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Patterns of Reinvention: The Nature of Evolution During Policy Diffusion (Scott P. Hays, 1996.)
Scott Hays' 1996 article, Patterns of Reinvention, looks at three (3) different policy innovations, comparing and contrasting their rates of change and dispersion: reinvention. Reinvention is defined by the author as "the process of evolution of an innovation during diffusion … and the changes adopters make to an innovation" (p. 551.) The three (3) policy areas focused upon – child abuse reporting laws, crime victim compensation laws, and public campaign funding laws – are used by Hays in a comparative analytical approach and questions whether the scope of the laws become more strict when adopters modify them over time, or if the laws are weakened as they are changed and implemented. Further, Hays considers whether the reinvention patterns are arbitrary, or whether policy diffusion is the result of an expected "second round of reinvention" (p. 551.)
In his examination of these......

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