Disasters and the American State: How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Public Prepare for the Unexpected - Couverture souple

Roberts, Patrick S.

 
9781316631201: Disasters and the American State: How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Public Prepare for the Unexpected

Synopsis

Disasters and the American State offers a thesis about the trajectory of federal government involvement in preparing for disaster shaped by contingent events.

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À propos de l'auteur

Patrick S. Roberts is an Associate Professor at the Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP) in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the Associate Chair and Program Director for CPAP, Northern Virginia. Roberts holds a PhD in government from the University of Virginia, and spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow, one at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, California and another with the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University, Massachusetts. He spent 2010–11 as the Ghaemian Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Heidelberg Center for American Studies in Germany. He has also been a reporter for the Associated Press. Roberts' work has been published in a variety of scholarly and popular journals including Studies in American Political Development, the Public Administration Review, the Journal of Policy History, Political Science Quarterly, Publius, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Administration and Society, the Public Organization Review, National Affairs, the Policy Review, American Interest, and USA Today. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the United States Naval Laboratories, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Social Science Research Council.

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9781107025868: Disasters and the American State: How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Public Prepare for the Unexpected

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1107025869 ISBN 13 :  9781107025868
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2013
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