SPPQ Policy Diffusion Article Metadata 2000-2025

Encompassing metadata for articles published in State Politics & Policy Quarterly from 2000 to 2025 that relate to policy diffusion research. It was compiled for a review article commemorating the journal's 25th anniversary, authored by Frederick Boehmke. The data supports analysis of scholarly trends in state policy diffusion studies.

Use Cases

• Analyze the evolution of policy diffusion research by categorizing articles into theoretical, methodological, substantive, and diffusion-adjacent studies.
• Map the frequency and focus of policy diffusion publications in SPPQ over the 25-year time range from 2000 to 2025.
• Identify connections between different research categories to study the overlap in theoretical development and substantive policy applications.

Strengths

• Covers a 25-year time range of scholarly publications from 2000 to 2025.
• Focuses on a specific, well-defined research area: policy diffusion in American state politics.
• Associated with a commemorative review article for a leading journal in the field, State Politics & Policy Quarterly.

Limitations

• The specific data structure, column names, and row count are unknown, limiting immediate analytical utility.
• The dataset scope is confined to a single journal (SPPQ), which may not represent the entire field of policy diffusion research.
• Without sample data, the granularity of information per article (e.g., abstracts, keywords, citations) is unclear.

Provenance

Source

State Politics and Policy Quarterly Dataverse.

Collection Method

Compiled as part of a review article analyzing SPPQ publications.

Time Range

2000 to 2025.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-02-13.

Geography

Primarily focuses on American state politics.