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PositionSTATELINE - Comparison of innovation of state policies - Brief article

How do you measure a state's propensity at being innovative? Political science professors at the University of Iowa were intrigued by this challenge. Choosing to define innovative to mean the willingness to adopt new policies before others, they filled a database of 180 different policies states passed between 1912 and 2009--from bottle bills to seat belt laws, according to the Pew Center on the States. Professors Frederick Boehmke and Paul Skinner then ranked the states in two time...

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