Do you agree with the authors’ assessment of the reasons for the perceived failures in Hurricane Katrina? Do you agree with their observation
Read the articles “Is Federalism the Reason for Policy Failure in Hurricane Katrina?” Thomas Birkland and Sarah Waterman and “Ten Years After Katrina” New york times
In “Is Federalism the Reason for Policy Failure in Hurricane Katrina?,” the
authors conclude the following:
If the federal government continues to dominate, state and local capacity could very well be eroded, as it was in Katrina, where capacity to plan for and respond to a Katrina-sized storm was not built in large part because of the federal government’s reassignment of resources from
natural disaster preparedness to homeland security ‘‘needs.’’ In the end, we cannot have much faith that another catastrophic disaster like Hurricane Katrina will greatly influence federal tendencies to centralize the direction of emergency management policy in Washington.
Do you agree with this assertion? Why or why not? Do you agree with the authors’ assessment of the reasons for the perceived failures in Hurricane Katrina? Do you agree with their observation that people tend to blame the federal government more than state and local governments for the apparent failures in Hurricane Katrina (or other crises)?
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