LEADER 03704nam 22006612 450 001 9910462905303321 005 20151014145419.0 010 $a1-107-24148-0 010 $a1-107-25103-6 010 $a1-107-24937-6 010 $a1-107-25020-X 010 $a1-107-24854-X 010 $a1-107-24771-3 010 $a1-139-19887-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000485252 035 $a(EBL)1357566 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001036407 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12338534 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036407 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11042187 035 $a(PQKB)11416732 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139198875 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1357566 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1357566 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10826652 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL568839 035 $a(OCoLC)867053663 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000485252 100 $a20111117d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDisasters and the American state $ehow politicians, bureaucrats, and the public prepare for the unexpected /$fPatrick S. Roberts, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 224 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-316-63120-6 311 $a1-107-02586-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFrom disaster relief to disaster management -- The origins of the disaster state, 1789-1914 -- Civil defense and the foundations of disaster policy, 1914-1979 -- The rise of emergency management and FEMA, 1979-2001 -- Terrorism and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, 1993-2003 -- "Where the hell is the army?": Hurricane Katrina meets the homeland security era -- Administrative evil and elite panic in disaster management -- Disasters and the American state. 330 $aDisasters 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. 517 3 $aDisasters & the American State 606 $aDisaster relief$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 606 $aEmergency management$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 606 $aCivil defense$zUnited States 615 0$aDisaster relief$xGovernment policy 615 0$aEmergency management$xGovernment policy 615 0$aCivil defense 676 $a363.34/70973 700 $aRoberts$b Patrick S.$f1975-$01043154 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462905303321 996 $aDisasters and the American state$92467931 997 $aUNINA