Using Geographic Information Systems to Study Interstate Competition

By William D. Berry, Brady Baybeck. American Political Science Review, 2005

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The mechanisms of policy diffusion (2008, background): “Berry and Baybeck (2005) argue that learning can take place across states generally, while economic competition is typically confined to individuals living near state borders.”
Kindred spirits or intergovernmental competition? The innovation and diffusion of energy policies in the American states (1990–2008) (2014, background): “Berry and Baybeck (2005) demonstrate that competition drives the adoption of state lotteries, while levels of state-determined welfare benefits are not influenced by competition.”
Learning From Others (2009, background): “…though Collier and Messick (1975, 1272) contended more than 30 years ago that welfare states have developed interdependently, and despite the important literature on the diffusion of welfare policies in US states (for example, Berry, Fording, and Hanson 2003; Berry and Baybeck 2005; Volden 2006).”