Appendix D presents three different tables ranking state receptivity to morality, governance, and regulatory policy innovation from 1960 to 2006. Here, the concept of state receptivity is used to measure the speed with which states typically adopt an innovation. The receptivity scores were calculated using morality, governance, and regulatory policy innovations that diffused between 1960 and 2006. To identify those states that are the most receptive to each type of innovation, the author constructed a composite innovation score for each state by taking the ratio measuring the time between the state's adoption of a specific program and the last state adoption of that innovation, against the total time elapsed between the first and last state adoption of the innovation. For each state, the receptivity score was arrived at using the following equation:

IS = [(LY + 1) - SY]/[(LY + 1) - FY]

Where IS is the innovation score for the state, LY + 1 is one year after the last state adopted the policy innovation, SY represents the year the state adopted the innovation, and FY is the first year a state adopted the policy innovation. Following this equation, the first state to adopt a policy innovation receives a score of 1.000, whereas those states that do not adopt a given innovation within the observation period receive a score of 0.000. The last state to adopt an innovation receives a score slightly above 0.000, differentiating it from nonadopting states by assigning it a small positive value as a late adopter of innovation.