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3 years ago Recent Articles on Policy Diffusion and Public Opinion will be great starting points. -U.S. ACA Hopkins and Parish, 2019. The Medicaid Expansion and Attitudes toward the Affordable Care Act: Testing for a Policy Feedback on Mass Opinion, Public Opinion Quarterly.
Pacheco and Maltby, 2017, The Role of Public Opinion—Does It Influence the Diffusion of ACA Decisions?, Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. + 2019, Trends in State-Level Opinions toward the Affordable Care Act, same journal.
Volden, 2017, Policy Diffusion in Polarized Times: The Case of the Affordable Care Act, Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. It provides lit-review on policy diffusion literature.
-U.S. climate policy adoption Bromley-Trujiilo and Poe, 2020, The importance of salience: public opinion and state policy action on climate change, Journal of Public Policy.
-European Countries, welfare policy Peters, 2021, Social policy responsiveness in multilevel contexts: How vertical diffusion of competences affects the opinion-policy link, Governance. It investigates whether the relationship between public opinion and welfare state effort is affected by globalization and decentralization. It also includes up-to-date lit-review on the link between public opinion and policy implementation.
-European Countries, Energy policy Anderson, Bohmelt, and Ward, 2017, Public opinion and environmental policy output: a cross-national analysis of energy policies in Europe. It also provides good lit-review on the influence of public opinion on the adoption of policies.
Not recent, but related to Gay Rights (same sex marriage, etc.) -U.S. Markel, Policy Diffusion as a Geographical Expansion of the Scope of Political Conflict: Same-Sex Marriage Bans in the 1990s, SPPQ.
Other stuff that I think we need to discuss Barth and Parry, 2009, Political Culture, Public Opinion, and Policy (Non)Diffusion: The Case of Gay and Lesbian-Related Issues in Arkansas, Social Science Quarterly. On 323p, They argue that "we should be careful not to employ the standard conservative/liberal ideology scores in examining relationships between citizen attitudes and policies related to gay rights; instead, each policy issue likely has a distinctive dynamic, that is, service in the military is not gay adoption is not same-sex marriage, and citizens consequently maintain separate attitudinal constructs for each." and "negative attitudes toward gays and lesbians do not necessarily translate into support for public policies hostile to sexual minorities." For sure, it is a case study on Arkansas, but we may think about estimating separate models according to different policies, or employing Pooled Event History Analysis developed by Boehmke and Kreitzer (2016)
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particularly stuff that includes public opinion