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Disasters and the American State - How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Public Prepare for the Unexpected (Paperback)
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Disasters and the American State - How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Public Prepare for the Unexpected (Paperback)
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Disasters and the American State offers a thesis about the
trajectory of federal government involvement in preparing for
disaster shaped by contingent events. Politicians and bureaucrats
claim credit for the government's successes in preparing for and
responding to disaster, and they are also blamed for failures
outside of government's control. New interventions have created
precedents and established organizations and administrative
cultures that accumulated over time and produced a general trend in
which citizens, politicians and bureaucrats expect the government
to provide more security from more kinds of disasters. The trend
reached its peak when the Federal Emergency Management Agency
adopted the idea of preparing for 'all hazards' as its mantra.
Despite the rhetoric, however, the federal government's
increasingly bold claims and heightened public expectations are
disproportionate to the ability of the federal government to
prevent or reduce the damage caused by disaster.
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