Flirting with disaster : public management in crisis situations / Saundra K. Schneider.
Material type: TextSeries: Bureaucracies, public administration, and public policyPublication details: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 1995.Description: xv, 187 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 1563245701 (hc)
- 156324571X (pbk)
- 363.34560973 20
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-182) and index.
Foreword / Kenneth J. Meier -- 1. The Varied Success of the Governmental Response to Natural Disasters -- 2. Natural Disasters as Public Policy Issues -- 3. The Governmental Response System -- 4. Human Behavior and Governmental Activity in Disasters: Two Sets of Norms -- 5. The Gap between Bureaucratic and Emergent Norms -- 6. A General Framework for Examining the Success or Failure of the Governmental Response to Natural Disasters -- 7. Hurricane Hugo in the Caribbean Islands -- 8. Hurricane Andrew in South Florida -- 9. South Carolina's Experience with Hurricane Hugo -- 10. The Loma Prieta Earthquake in California -- 11. Hurricane Hugo in North Carolina -- 12. Hurricane Andrew in Louisiana -- 13. "Normal" Disasters: 1990 Floods in South Carolina -- 14. The Paradox of Governmental Performance -- 15. Considering Recommendations for Change.
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