Burke, Brendan Francis; PhD

                         THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, 2000
 
                         POLITICAL SCIENCE, GENERAL (0615); POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (0617); TRANSPORTATION (0709)

                         Political science research on innovation diffusion has arrived at an orthodox explanation, mainly devoted
                         to the traditional policy determinants literature. This dissertation expands the explanation into a pattern of
                         four different policy processes, Convention, Collaboration, Competition, and Contagion, each of which
                         has a varied set of determinants for the diffusion of innovations. The four process types are tested using
                         event history analysis, applied to recent innovations in the area of transportation policy.

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