The everyday versus the disaster role of local officials : citizen and official definitions.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: JUN 1981Description: 22p., 9 tabs, 40 refsSubject: Examines the definitions of active citizens and local government officials regarding the everyday and disaster roles of local government. The principal finding is that citizens and officials agreed on the everyday but not the disaster role. Citizens expected a custodial orientation in the everyday situation, but an "active" one in disaster. The definitional incongruity in the disaster environment had consequences for at least two alterations in the postdisaster community structure: group emergence and political reorganization.
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Australian Emergency Management Library | BOOK | 352.9354 WOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 005267902 |
Reprinted from Urban Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 16., No. 4., June 1981, pp483-504
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Examines the definitions of active citizens and local government officials regarding the everyday and disaster roles of local government. The principal finding is that citizens and officials agreed on the everyday but not the disaster role. Citizens expected a custodial orientation in the everyday situation, but an "active" one in disaster. The definitional incongruity in the disaster environment had consequences for at least two alterations in the postdisaster community structure: group emergence and political reorganization.
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