Junhee Park

Reverse‐Diffusion of Policy in Multilevel Governance: The Dynamics of South Korea's Lonely Death Ordinances

ABSTRACT This study examines the diffusion of local ordinances addressing lonely deaths in South Korea and introduces the concept of reverse‐diffusion of policy—a process in which local innovations diffuse upward to higher levels of government, become institutionalised and subsequently diffuse downward to late‐adopting...