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- Title
Coerced Confusion? Local Emergency Policy Implementation After September 11.
- Authors
Hildebrand, Sean
- Abstract
This study examines what motivates local emergency management officials to implement federal emergency management and homeland security policies within their own departments since the September 11 attacks. Pre-existing research claims there is confusion among local governments about potential changes to the role local emergency management services play before, during, and after natural, accidental, or terror related incidents. Meanwhile, additional research claims the federal disaster management policies (The National Response Plan, National Incident Management System, and Incident Command System) lack flexibility in implementation expectations, and there is limited cohesion among the layers of government, actors, and interests involved. This study asserts that something must spur local actors to comply with federal policy demands in their daily operations given how the post-September 11 policies change the field. The study specifically examines the effects of coercion, defined as actions taken by the federal government to force state and local implementers to comply with federal policy demands. Available federal grant dollars for emergency management and homeland security practices could make a dramatic difference to local emergency management operations, forcing these actors to comply with federal policy demands, even if it is in a begrudging fashion that deviates from traditional Comprehensive Emergency Management (CEM) principles.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EMERGENCY management; LOCAL officials &; employees; NATIONAL security; FEDERAL government of the United States; SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, &; politics; PREPAREDNESS; RISK assessment; FEDERAL-city relations
- Publication
Journal of Homeland Security & Emergency Management, 2015, Vol 12, Issue 2, p273
- ISSN
1547-7355
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/jhsem-2014-0054