Title

Leadership Under Stress: Presidential Roles In Emergency And Crisis Management In The United States

Keywords

Disaster policy; Emergency management; Executive experience; Presidential disaster declaration; Presidential leadership

Abstract

This paper attempts both to rate the quality and breadth of presidential involvement in emergency management, as well as to examine the possible reasons for the differing quality. Using three major factors for evaluation, it is possible to review the presidential records from the second half of the twentieth century to today, and derive broad categorical assessments using a holistic methodology. While some presidents learned from major catastrophes (focusing events) that occurred just before or during their administrations, others were hard-pressed simply to recover from especially disruptive or new disasters and failed to improve the system as a result. During his campaign President Obama had indicated a preference to elevate FEMA again, but it remains to be seen if he will have time to deal with this issue in the first half of his administration.

Publication Date

8-12-2009

Publication Title

International Journal of Public Administration

Volume

32

Issue

9

Number of Pages

767-772

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/01900690903017025

Socpus ID

68249153385 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/68249153385

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