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The Politics of Ideas and the Spread of Enterprise Zones Jay Harris and on building a successfulThis book explores how policy ideas are spread or diffused in an age in which policymaking has become increasingly complex and specialized. Using the concept of enterprise zones as a case study in policy diffusion, Karen Mossberger compares the process of their adoption in Virginia, Indiana, Michigan, New York, and Massachusetts over a twelve year period. Enterprise zones were first proposed by the Reagan administration as a supply side effort to