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    <title>Neighbors and the evolution of the comparative advantage of nations: Evidence of international knowledge diffusion?</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-27T14:23:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The literature on knowledge diffusion shows that knowledge decays strongly with distance. In this paper we document that the probability that a product is added to a country's export basket is, on average, 65% larger if a neighboring country is a successful exporter of that same product. For existing products, growth of exports in a country is 1.5% higher per annum if it has a neighbor with comparative advantage in these products. While these results could be driven by a common third factor that escapes our controls, they align with our expectations of the localized character of knowledge diffusion."

--- Ungated working paper version: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/pdfs/centers-programs/centers/cid/publications/faculty/wp/235.pdf

--- See about replication data?]]></description>
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    <title>Democratic Dominoes: Diffusion Approaches to the Spread of Democracy in the International System</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-11T19:45:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This article is an attempt to indicate how diffusion approaches, based on the concepts of linkage and interdependence, can be of help in our thinking about the spread of democracy. The analyses address the existence or absence of diffusion effects in regard to changes in the degree of freedom in the world's governments, and whether or not there has been a more specific global movement towards democracy. The dependent variable is the set of "governmental transitions," based on yearly Freedom House data. Diffusion analyses are at the global, regional, and neighbor-state levels (1974-1987). Thus analysis is limited to cues or prototypes from the external environment of states. Although neighbor effects are less than those found with the diffusion of war, all three levels support the proposition that there has been a diffusion of governmental transitions, including a movement towards democracy that provided a context for the dramatic events of 1988 and 1989."]]></description>
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    <title>Diffusion Is No Illusion</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-11T19:41:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This article develops and tests a specific model of the role of diffusion as a determinant of the magnitude and direction of regime change, using a database covering the world from 1972 to 1996. The authors find that countries tend to change their regimes to match the average degree of democracy or nondemocracy found among their contiguous neighbors and that countries in the U.S. sphere of influence tended to become more democratic in the period examined. They also confirm that countries tend to follow the direction in which the majority of other countries in the world are moving. Their model builds on several findings in the diffusion literature but adds methodological improvements and includes more extensive controls for other variables that have been found to affect regime change—including levels of development, presidentialism, and regional differences—offering further support for some and challenging other findings of the regime change literature."]]></description>
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    <title>Reflections on the revolutionary wave in 2011 - Springer</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-28T14:29:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The “Arab Spring” was a surprising event not just because predicting revolutions is a difficult task, but because current theories of revolution are ill equipped to explain revolutionary waves where interactive causal mechanisms at different levels of analysis and interactions between the units of analysis predominate. To account for such dynamics, a multidimensional social science of revolution is required. Accordingly, a meta-framework for revolutionary theory that combines multiple levels of analysis, multiple units of analysis, and their interactions is offered. A structured example of theory building is then given by detailing how the development of world cultural models and practices challenge existing political structures, affect mobilization processes, and make diffusion more likely. A structured example of study design using qualitative comparative analysis of 16 Middle Eastern and North African countries provides support for the interaction of subnational conditions for mobilization, state-centered causes, and transnational factors, including a country’s linkage to world society, as one explanation of the Revolutions of 2011."]]></description>
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    <title>Policy Diffusion Dynamics in America - Academic and Professional Books - Cambridge University Press</title>
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    <title>Rossman, G.: Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation.</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Despite the growth of digital media, traditional FM radio airplay still remains the essential way for musicians to achieve commercial success. Climbing the Charts examines how songs rise, or fail to rise, up the radio airplay charts. Looking at the relationships between record labels, tastemakers, and the public, Gabriel Rossman develops a clear picture of the roles of key players and the gatekeeping mechanisms in the commercial music industry. Along the way, he explores its massive inequalities, debunks many popular misconceptions about radio stations' abilities to dictate hits, and shows how a song diffuses throughout the nation to become a massive success.
"Contrary to the common belief that Clear Channel sees every sparrow that falls, Rossman demonstrates that corporate radio chains neither micromanage the routine decision of when to start playing a new single nor make top-down decisions to blacklist such politically inconvenient artists as the Dixie Chicks. Neither do stations imitate either ordinary peers or the so-called kingmaker radio stations who are wrongly believed to be able to make or break a single. Instead, Rossman shows that hits spread rapidly across radio because they clearly conform to an identifiable style or genre. Radio stations respond to these songs, and major labels put their money behind them through extensive marketing and promotion efforts, including the illegal yet time-honored practice of payoffs known within the industry as payola."

(Rossman is worth reading, despite the endorsements from Cowen and McArdle.)]]></description>
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    <title>Network Interventions</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The term “network interventions” describes the process of using social network data to accelerate behavior change or improve organizational performance. In this Review, four strategies for network interventions are described, each of which has multiple tactical alternatives. Many of these tactics can incorporate different mathematical algorithms. Consequently, researchers have many intervention choices at their disposal. Selecting the appropriate network intervention depends on the availability and character of network data, perceived characteristics of the behavior, its existing prevalence, and the social context of the program."

- Does it even mention the critiques of Christakis & Fowler?  Seems unlikely, since they (apparently) took their model from Valente.]]></description>
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    <title>[0804.3166] Analysis of comparative data with hierarchical autocorrelation</title>
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    <title>Phys. Rev. E 85, 056121 (2012): Structure of S-shaped growth in innovation diffusion</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-29T19:20:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v85/i5/e056121</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A basic question on innovation diffusion is why the growth curve of the adopter population in a large society is often S shaped. From macroscopic, microscopic, and mesoscopic viewpoints, the growth of the adopter population is observed as the growth curve, individual adoptions, and differences among individual adoptions, respectively. The S shape can be explained if an empirical model of the growth curve can be deduced from models of microscopic and mesoscopic structures. However, even the structure of growth curve has not been revealed yet because long-term extrapolations by proposed models of S-shaped curves are unstable and it has been very difficult to predict the long-term growth and final adopter population. This paper studies the S-shaped growth from the viewpoint of social regularities. Simple methods to analyze power laws enable us to extract the structure of the growth curve directly from the growth data of recent basic telecommunication services. This empirical model of growth curve is singular at the inflection point and a logarithmic function of time after this point, which explains the unstable extrapolations obtained using previously proposed models and the difficulty in predicting the final adopter population. Because the empirical S curve can be expressed in terms of two power laws of the regularity found in social performances of individuals, we propose the hypothesis that the S shape represents the heterogeneity of the adopter population, and the heterogeneity parameter is distributed under the regularity in social performances of individuals. This hypothesis is so powerful as to yield models of microscopic and mesoscopic structures. In the microscopic model, each potential adopter adopts the innovation when the information accumulated by the learning about the innovation exceeds a threshold. The accumulation rate of information is heterogeneous among the adopter population, whereas the threshold is a constant, which is the opposite of previously proposed models. In the mesoscopic model, flows of innovation information incoming to individuals are organized as dimorphic and partially clustered. These microscopic and mesoscopic models yield the empirical model of the S curve and explain the S shape as representing the regularities of information flows generated through a social self-organization. To demonstrate the validity and importance of the hypothesis, the models of three level structures are applied to reveal the mechanism determining and differentiating diffusion speeds. The empirical model of S curves implies that the coefficient of variation of the flow rates determines the diffusion speed for later adopters. Based on this property, a model describing the inside of information flow clusters can be given, which provides a formula interconnecting the diffusion speed, cluster populations, and a network topological parameter of the flow clusters. For two recent basic telecommunication services in Japan, the formula represents the variety of speeds in different areas and enables us to explain speed gaps between urban and rural areas and between the two services. Furthermore, the formula provides a method to estimate the final adopter population."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB statistics diffusion_of_innovations re:critique_of_diffusion color_me_skeptical</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ea35857cf951/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://pan.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/05/09/pan.mps016.abstract">
    <title>Estimating the Causal Effects of Social Interaction with Endogenous Networks</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-15T13:25:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pan.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/05/09/pan.mps016.abstract</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Identifying causal effects attributable to network membership is a key challenge in empirical studies of social networks. In this article, we examine the consequences of endogeneity for inferences about the effects of networks on network members’ behavior. Using the House office lottery (in which newly elected members select their office spaces in a randomly chosen order) as an instrumental variable to estimate the causal impact of legislative networks on roll call behavior and cosponsorship decisions in the 105th–112th Houses, we find no evidence that office proximity affects patterns of legislative behavior. These results contrast with decades of congressional scholarship and recent empirical studies. Our analysis demonstrates the importance of accounting for selection processes and omitted variables in estimating the causal impact of networks."]]></description>
<dc:subject>causal_inference re:critique_of_diffusion social_influence congress network_data_analysis social_networks homophily re:homophily_and_confounding in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e2697eb5c235/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_influence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:congress"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:in_NB"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/pn_wp/65/">
    <title>&quot;Network Coevolution and Democracy: A Spatial Econometric Approach&quot; by Aya Kachi</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-26T17:03:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/pn_wp/65/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Regime transitions are contagious according to the diffusion-of-democracy literature: a country's regime is affected by others' through various predefined networks (e.g. geographical proximity), as well as by the country's own political, economic and social attributes (e.g. GDP levels). My account departs from the existing diffusion theory by allowing for countries' self-selection into peer regime networks based on their democracy levels in the past. For example, a country can form stronger dependency ties with countries that demonstrated similar democracy levels in the past (homophily). In the longitudinal setting, the traditional diffusion mechanism with the presence of self-selection generates the "co-evolutionary dynamic" between country networks and democracy levels. With this recursive feedback process between tie formation and democracy levels, it becomes extremely difficult to evaluate empirically how each country's level of democracy is determined, because we need to distinguish the following three processes statistically. First, country-specific attributes determine the level of democracy as in the earliest democratization studies. Second, other states' democracy levels also predict a country's regime as demonstrated in the conventional diffusion studies. Finally with my theory of endogenous network formation, the seeming diffusion effect is partially a consequence of their self-selection into peer networks. A newer spatial econometric model, an "M-STAR + Co-Evolution" model, is one of the first that allows us to test for all of these three dynamics behind democratization. In my first-cut analysis, I find that all three processes indeed exist."

ETA: It's good to recognize the problem exists, but the model used here does not make it go away, and still fails to identify the influence effect (if one exists).]]></description>
<dc:subject>to_read political_science network_data_analysis homophily contagion re:critique_of_diffusion democracy in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:66638700140d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://rulesofreason.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/diffusion-of-smoking-bans-in-europe/">
    <title>Diffusion of smoking bans in Europe | Rules of Reason</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-23T16:00:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rulesofreason.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/diffusion-of-smoking-bans-in-europe/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>diffusion_of_innovations re:critique_of_diffusion smoking public_policy to:NB to_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:aade463912c1/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:smoking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:public_policy"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.soc.33.090106.142507">
    <title>The Global Diffusion of Public Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, Competition, or Learning? - Annual Review of Sociology, 33(1):449</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-16T14:22:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.soc.33.090106.142507</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Social scientists have sketched four distinct theories to explain a phenomenon that appears to have ramped up in recent years, the diffusion of policies across countries. Constructivists trace policy norms to expert epistemic communities and international organizations, who define economic progress and human rights. Coercion theorists point to powerful nation-states, and international financial institutions, that threaten sanctions or promise aid in return for fiscal conservatism, free trade, etc. Competition theorists argue that countries compete to attract investment and to sell exports by lowering the cost of doing business, reducing constraints on investment, or reducing tariff barriers in the hope of reciprocity. Learning theorists suggest that countries learn from their own experiences and, as well, from the policy experiments of their peers. We review the large body of research from sociologists and political scientists, as well as the growing body of work from economists and psychologists, pointing to the diverse mechanisms that are theorized and to promising avenues for distinguishing among causal mechanisms."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB political_science political_economy re:critique_of_diffusion</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:76631fd5e5d9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2008.00499.x/abstract">
    <title>Contagion or Confusion? Why Conflicts Cluster in Space - Buhaug - 2008 - International Studies Quarterly - Wiley Online Library</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-16T14:20:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2008.00499.x/abstract</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Civil wars cluster in space as well as time. In this study, we develop and evaluate empirically alternative explanations for this observed clustering. We consider whether the spatial pattern of intrastate conflict simply stems from a similar distribution of relevant country attributes or whether conflicts indeed constitute a threat to other proximate states. Our results strongly suggest that there is a genuine neighborhood effect of armed conflict, over and beyond what individual country characteristics can account for. We then examine whether the risk of contagion depends on the degree of exposure to proximate conflicts. Contrary to common expectations, this appears not to be the case. Rather, we find that conflict is more likely when there are ethnic ties to groups in a neighboring conflict and that contagion is primarily a feature of separatist conflicts. This suggests that transnational ethnic linkages constitute a central mechanism of conflict contagion."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB contagion political_science war re:critique_of_diffusion</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:91ca580aae93/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:political_science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:war"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/02/29/cross-national-diffusion-of-protest/">
    <title>Cross-National Diffusion of Protest — The Monkey Cage</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-10T19:37:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/02/29/cross-national-diffusion-of-protest/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>re:critique_of_diffusion</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:28b4cae6be9d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://cps.sagepub.com/content/45/1/119">
    <title>Interactive Diffusion</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-01T02:12:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cps.sagepub.com/content/45/1/119</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this article, the authors focus attention on a poorly understood aspect of contentious politics: the interaction between the transnational diffusion of new forms of protest behavior and police practices in response to them. Studies of diffusion are usually limited to the diffusion of one kind of innovation by one set of actors to another, as in the diffusion of technical innovations from innovators to adopters. But collective action diffusion also produces a parallel and interactive sequence of “public order” reactions. Using the transnational countersummits that emerged around the turn of the century as their source of evidence, the authors focus on the coevolution of protester and police innovations across national boundaries. The authors’ major finding is that the mechanisms that cause protester and police innovations to diffuse are remarkably similar, even though they can combine in different ways at different moments: promotion, the proactive intervention by a sender actor aimed at deliberate diffusion of an innovation; assessment, the analysis of information on past events and their definition as successes or failures, which leads to adaption of the innovation to new sites and situations; and theorization, the location of technical innovations within broader normative and cognitive frameworks. The authors close with a speculative application of their findings to the recent diffusion of protester tactics and regime responses in the Middle East and North Africa."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB to_read diffusion_of_innovations social_movements arab_spring re:critique_of_diffusion via:henry_farrell</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9f3e1265d25c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2012/02/neighborhood-effects-as-meso-causes.html">
    <title>UnderstandingSociety: Neighborhood effects as meso-causes</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-15T13:22:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2012/02/neighborhood-effects-as-meso-causes.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>sociology track_down_references re:critique_of_diffusion social_influence geography</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:682e80db0097/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_influence"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.unc.edu/~toatley/rg.pdf">
    <title>The Reductionist Gamble: Open Economy Politics in the Global Economy</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-17T22:51:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.unc.edu/~toatley/rg.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["[International political economy] should transition to “third wave” scholarship. This transition is necessary because the approach that dominates current American IPE scholarship, Open Economy Politics (OEP), generates inaccurate knowledge. OEP produces inaccurate knowledge because it studies domestic politics in isolation from international or macro processes. This methodological reductionism is often inappropriate for the phenomena IPE studies because governments inhabit a system. As a result, the political choices that OEP attempts to explain are typically a product of the interplay between domestic politics and macro processes. When OEP omits causally significant macro processes from empirical models, the models yield biased inferences about the domestic political relationships under investigation. Although we tolerated such errors when the gains from OEP were large, these errors are less tolerable now that OEP has matured. Consequently, the field should transition toward research that is non-reductionist (systemic), problem-driven, and pluralistic."

--- I don't see how the issue is _reductionism_ so much as _ignoring interactions_.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB to_read re:critique_of_diffusion social_science_methodology international_relations political_economy via:henry_farrell</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3160a237b43a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.stanford.edu/~djwang/WangSoule2012AJS.pdf">
    <title>Social Movement Organizational Collaboration: Networks of Learning and the Diffusion of Protest Tactics, 1960-1995</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-17T02:59:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.stanford.edu/~djwang/WangSoule2012AJS.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This paper examines the diffusion of protest tactics between social movement organizations (SMOs). Drawing on organizational learning theory, we argue that knowledge about specific tactics diffuses between social movement organizations via their co-engagement in protest events. Using a longitudinal network dataset of organizations and their participation in protest events between 1960 and 1995, we adapt novel methodological techniques for dealing with selection and measurement bias in networks analysis, which comes in two forms—1) the mechanism that renders some organizations more likely to select into collaborations than others, and 2) the notion that tactical diffusion is not a result of collaboration, but rather is an artifact of homophily or some form of indirect learning. We find that collaboration is indeed an important channel of tactical diffusion. We also find that SMOs with broader tactical repertoires are more likely to adopt additional tactics as a result of their collaborations with other SMOs, but only up to a point, beyond which such SMOs are spread too thin. Engaging in more collaborations also makes SMOs both more active transmitters and adopters of novel tactics. Finally, achieving some initial overlap in their respective tactical repertoires facilitates the diffusion of tactics between collaborating SMOs."

-- Andrew and I are cited, but they show no real awareness of the fact that Aral's matching method does nothing about latent homophily, and so their results are still completely exposed to confounding (unless they've got truly well-chosen control variables going into the matching).]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB to_read sociology social_movements diffusion_of_innovations re:critique_of_diffusion homophily</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:908326804b89/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item2703870/?site_locale=en_US">
    <title>The Diffusion of Social Movements - Academic and Professional Books - Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-08T01:06:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item2703870/?site_locale=en_US</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It is widely recognized that social movements may spread – or "diffuse" – from one site to another. Such diffusion, however, is a complex and multidimensional process that involves different actors, networks, and mechanisms. This complexity has spawned a large body of literature on different aspects of the diffusion process, yet a comprehensive framework remains an elusive target. This book is a response to that need, and its framework focuses on three basic analytical questions. First, what is being diffused? This question directs attention to both the protest repertoires and interpretive frames that actors construct to define issues and mobilize political claims. Second, how does diffusion occur? This book focuses attention on the activist networks and communication channels that facilitate diffusion, including dialogue, rumors, the mass media, the internet, NGOs, and organizational brokers. Finally, what is the impact of diffusion on organizational development and shifts in the scale of contentious politics? This volume suggests that diffusion is not a simple matter of political contagion or imitation; rather, it is a creative and strategic process marked by political learning, adaptation, and innovation."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted social_movements diffusion_of_innovations re:critique_of_diffusion contagion sociology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6b93b2f8bad4/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/5142122">
    <title>Choosing Your Neighbors: Networks of Diffusion in International Relations</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-19T15:34:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/5142122</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In examining the discussion of social and political phenomena like regime transition, conflict, and policy change, scholars routinely make choices about how proximity is defined and which neighbors should be considered more important than others. Since each specification offers an alternative view of the networks through which discussion can take place, one's decision can exert a significant influence on the magnitude and scope of estimated discussion effects. This problem is widely recognized, but is rarely the subject of direct analysis. In international relations research, connectivity choices are usually ad hoc, driven more by data availability than by theoretically informed decision criteria. We take a closer look at the assumptions behind these choices, and propose a more systematic method to asses the structural similarity of two or more alternative networks, and select one that most plausibly relates theory to empirics. We apply this method to the spread of democratic regime change, and offer an illustrative example of how neighbor choices might impact predictions and inferences in the case of the 2011 Arab Spring."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8568.html">
    <title>Weyland, K.: Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion: Social Sector Reform in Latin America.</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-26T16:32:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8568.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model? Two years after Ronald Reagan's income-tax simplification of 1986, Brazil adopted a similar reform even though it threatened to exacerbate income disparity and jeopardize state revenues. And Chile's pension privatization of the early 1980s has spread throughout Latin America and beyond even though many poor countries that have privatized their social security systems, including Bolivia and El Salvador, lack some of the preconditions necessary to do so successfully.

In a major step beyond conventional rational-choice accounts of policy decision-making, this book demonstrates that bounded--not full--rationality drives the spread of innovations across countries. When seeking solutions to domestic problems, decision-makers often consider foreign models, sometimes promoted by development institutions like the World Bank. But, as Kurt Weyland argues, policymakers apply inferential shortcuts at the risk of distortions and biases. Through an in-depth analysis of pension and health reform in Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Peru, Weyland demonstrates that decision-makers are captivated by neat, bold, cognitively available models. And rather than thoroughly assessing the costs and benefits of external models, they draw excessively firm conclusions from limited data and overextrapolate from spurts of success or failure. Indications of initial success can thus trigger an upsurge of policy diffusion."]]></description>
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    <title>Strang, D.: Learning by Example: Imitation and Innovation at a Global Bank.</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-12T16:24:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9213.html</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://rpm47.blogspot.com/2011/01/everything-old-is-new-again.html">
    <title>PM's Question Time: Everything old is new again</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-14T17:20:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rpm47.blogspot.com/2011/01/everything-old-is-new-again.html</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.fabriziogilardi.org/resources/papers/gilardi_handbook_IR_v2.pdf">
    <title>Transnational Diffusion: Norms, Ideas, and Policies</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-16T21:29:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.fabriziogilardi.org/resources/papers/gilardi_handbook_IR_v2.pdf</link>
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    <title>ScienceDirect - Social Networks : Affinity Paths and information diffusion in social networks</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-04T05:07:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&amp;_udi=B6VD1-51YM8HS-1&amp;_user=10&amp;_coverDate=01%2F16%2F2011&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_fmt=high&amp;_orig=search&amp;_origin=search&amp;_sort=d&amp;_docanchor=&amp;view=c&amp;_acct=C000050221&amp;_version=1&amp;_urlVersion=0&amp;_userid=10&amp;md5=3932f806051952e7b9d41495dcb9150a&amp;searchtype=a</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>social_networks information_cascades re:homophily_and_confounding to_read re:critique_of_diffusion re:social_networks_as_sensor_networks</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2062">
    <title>[1012.2062] Diffusion and Cascading Behavior in Random Networks</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-20T22:09:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2062</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>social_networks diffusion_of_innovations re:do-institutions-evolve re:critique_of_diffusion have_read in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.pnas.org/content/107/47/20196.abstract?etoc">
    <title>The spread of innovations in social networks — PNAS</title>
    <dc:date>2010-11-25T15:16:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pnas.org/content/107/47/20196.abstract?etoc</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>social_networks diffusion_of_innovations evolutionary_game_theory re:do-institutions-evolve to_read re:critique_of_diffusion re:democratic_cognition</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e9d071607648/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.0234">
    <title>[1006.0234] Inferring Networks of Diffusion and Influence</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-03T11:45:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.0234</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>network_data_analysis influence inference_to_latent_objects social_networks re:homophily_and_confounding to_read re:critique_of_diffusion</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&amp;_udi=B6VC0-4VK6NG2-2&amp;_user=1082852&amp;_coverDate=05%2F31%2F2009&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_fmt=high&amp;_orig=search&amp;_sort=d&amp;_docanchor=&amp;view=c&amp;_searchStrId=1340097472&amp;_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&amp;_acct=C000051401&amp;_version=1&amp;_urlVersion=0&amp;_userid=1082852&amp;md5=79cffc4a3a2ea65fddb4cddf55a961fb">
    <title>Journal of Econometrics : Identification of peer effects through social networks</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-19T19:19:27+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Of course, saying "we assume that correlated effects are absent" is, in this context at least, very much a "we assume we have a can opener" move.
]]></description>
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    <title>Homophily and Contagion Are Generically Confounded in Observational Social Network Studies (Shalizi and Thomas, 2010)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-28T00:11:57+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.5242">
    <title>[0912.5242] Predictive Analysis for Social Diffusion: The Role of Network Communities</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-31T15:48:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.5242</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>social_networks network_data_analysis contagion re:homophily_and_confounding to_read re:critique_of_diffusion re:social_networks_as_sensor_networks</dc:subject>
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    <title>Distinguishing influence-based contagion from homophily-driven diffusion in dynamic networks — PNAS</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-25T06:22:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pnas.org/content/106/51/21544.abstract</link>
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    <title>[0906.3202] Distance Is Not Dead: Social Interaction and Geographical Distance in the Internet Era</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-19T19:01:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3202</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well, their power law estimation is bad, of course, but more to the point I don't think they're really dealing with an interesting version of the thesis they set out to undermine.  (At the very least: even if geography was irrelevant for Internet users, the latter are not uniformly distributed geographically.)  The pictures of the diffusion of baby names are cool, though.
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    <title>Failure in Complex Social Networks - The Journal of Mathematical Sociology</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-01T21:26:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a907105422~db=all?jumptype=alert&amp;alerttype=new_issue_alert,email</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" However, for “complex contagions,” such as social movements, collective behaviors, and cultural and social norms, multiple reinforcing ties are needed to support the spread of a behavior diffusion. I show that scale-free networks are much less robust than exponential networks for the spread of complex contagions, which highlights the value of more homogenously distributed social networks for the robust transmission of collective behavior."
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<dc:subject>emotion fear neuropsychology reinforcement_learning re:critique_of_diffusion</dc:subject>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hah!

(But at the same time, getting scooped does not feel good.)
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<dc:subject>confounding contagion causal_inference via:kevin_drum re:homophily_and_confounding network_data_analysis have_read re:critique_of_diffusion</dc:subject>
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    <title>Network Conditions of Organizational Change (McGrath and Krackhardt)</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>networks innovation diffusion_of_innovations institutions re:critique_of_diffusion epidemiology_of_representations</dc:subject>
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