0 past simple and past participle of diffuse --
1 to (cause something to) spread in many directions: --
Lessons are also drawn and policies transferred and diffused where there is 'external' pressure on state actors to adopt particular policies.
This attitude to rules diffused through the society so that written rules came to have authority.
This implies that it is hardly possible to actually influence the introduction and implementation of the technology, because it is already diffused to healthcare professionals.
In order to control nosocomial infections of resistant organisms, certain isolation measures should be diffused and fulfilled.
But the second mechanism at work in fostering consumer trust in a physician was the insurance system, which diffused the doctor's charges among all policyholders.
Power is diffused, fragmented, dispersed, distributed among a large number of actors.
Thus, policy networks are the intervening variable explaining why an internationally diffused policy idea is implemented differently in various national settings.
Some market principles appear to have diffused across all demographic segments of society.
