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FLIRTING WITH DISASTER:PUBLIC MANAGEMENT IN CRISIS
SITUATIONS
(2nd Edition, Forthcoming 2008)
SAUNDRA K. SCHNEIDERMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Prepared for the 10th Annual Emergency Management Education ConferenceNational Emergency Training Center, Emmitsburg, MD
June 5-7, 2007
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INTRODUCTION
One of the most telling applications of the fundamental values of a societycan be found in how that society responds to crisis events.
How a society prepares for and invests in policies to prevent or lessen theeffects of such events:
• Demonstrates the values placed on safety, security, human lives, andphysical property
• Demonstrates the capacity of its political and economic interests indecsionmaking
• Demonstrates the priorities of governmental institutions andadministrators to channel their technical expertise to bear on theseproblems
• Demonstrates the relationship between citizens and governmentinstitutions
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THE NATURE OF CRISIS SITUATIONS
• What exactly is a crisis?
• How do we differentiate between a problem,emergency, crisis, disaster, catastrophe?
• Is a crisis objectively determined?
• Is a crisis subjectively determined?
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CRISIS CONDITIONS IN POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE
Defining Crises as Important Policy Issues:
• Objective Dimensions
• Triggering Mechanisms
• Spillover/Interconnectedness of issues
• Symbolic Dimensions
• Political Dimensions – Legitimate GovernmentalInvolvement
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CRISIS CONDITIONS IN POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE
General Perspectives on Agenda-Building and PublicPolicymaking
• How do crises get on policy agendas?
• Why is it important to consider the agenda settingof crises?
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CRISIS CONDITIONS IN POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE
The Broader Context of Crisis Situations
• The Life Cycle of Policy Issues
• The Two Worlds of Crisis Issues
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GOVERNMENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN CRISISSITUATIONS
Parallels Between Governmental Involvement inDisasters/Crises and Other Policy Issues
• Tremendous increase in the size and scope ofGovernmental Involvement
• Greater involvement by national governments(relative to state and local levels)
• Highly reactive nature of public policymaking
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GOVERNMENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN CRISISSITUATIONS
Parallels Between Governmental Involvement inDisasters/Crises and Other Policy Issues (continued)
• High levels of attention, followed by diminishinginterest
• Incrementalist pressures
• Efforts to move toward more proactive measuresand emphases
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BASIC RATIONALE OF GOVERNMENTALINVOLVEMENT IN CRISIS SITUATIONS
Need to deal with situations beyond the control ofcitizens
Need for protection and security
Need to redistribute resources in society
Need to "insure" people against individual andcollective risk
Need to provide economic stabilization
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BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF U.S. RESPONSESYSTEM
• Objectives
• Division of labor
• Coordinated behavior and activities
• "Formal" structure
• Established policies and clearly-designedprocedures
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BASIC PROBLEMS OF GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSESYSTEMS
• Survival concerns
• Coordination and consolidation
• Communication
• Disjointed activities
• Redundancy
• Red tape
• Responsiveness and Accountability
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CITIZEN BEHAVIOR IN CRISIS SITUATIONS
• Individual level responses
• Community response
• Societal response
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CITIZEN BEHAVIOR IN CRISIS SITUATIONS
• Traditional, conventional forms of human behavior
• Unconventional forms of human behavior
• Milling
• Rumors
• Keynoting
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CITIZEN BEHAVIOR IN CRISIS SITUATIONS
• Emergent norms
• Situation-specific development of emergentnorms
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POTENTIAL CONFLICT!
GOVERNMENTAL POLICY VSHUMAN BEHAVIOR DURING CRISIS SITUATIONS
• Sources of governmental and citizen norms
• Evolution of norms
• Gap between bureaucratic and emergent norms
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FACTORS WHICH AFFECT THE SIZE OF THE GAP
• Magnitude of the disaster
• Degree of governmental preparation
• Prevailing orientations of the affected population
• Media Framing
• Political Scapegoating
• Bureaucratic breakdowns
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IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES OF THE GAP
Produces different patterns of program implementation
Top-down Pattern
Bottom-up Pattern
Confusion Pattern
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LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES OF THE GAP
Shapes overall assessments of governmentalperformance–
Success
v.
Failure
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THE CONFLICT BETWEEN GOVERNMENTAL POLICYAND HUMAN BEHAVIOR DURING CRISIS SITUATIONS
Past governmental policy successes
Past governmental policy failures
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HURRICANE KATRINA AS A NATURAL DISASTER
Hit Gulf Coast of U.S. in August 2005
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Affected 93,000 square miles across 138 parishes andcounties
3000 people died (thousands missing)
Over 1 million displaced by the storm
Devastated homes, buildings, forests, vegetation
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GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSE TO HURRICANEKATRINA
What went right?
State of emergency was declared
Response plans went into effect
Personnel deployed to affected areas
Mandatory evacuations ordered
Temporary shelters opened
Declared as an “Incident of National Significance”
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GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSE TO HURRICANEKATRINA
What went wrong?
Lack of local preparation
Eruption of social unrest
Faltering mobilization
Failed leadership
Personnel problems
Lackadaisical, uncaring response
Widespread public dissatisfaction and outrage with response
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WHY DID THE GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSE TOHURRICANE KATRINA BREAKDOWN?
A large gap developed between public expectations andgovernmental policy
Why did this occur?
Scope of the disaster
Citizen preparation/expectations
Media’s framing of the problems
BREAKDOWNS IN GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM
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MAJOR GOVERNMENTAL BREAKDOWNS IN THERESPONSE TO HURRICANE KATRINA
Cloudy Mission and Lack of Focus
Since 9/11, the Governmental Response System HasBeen Directed Away from Natural Disasters TowardDealing with Terrorist Attacks
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MAJOR GOVERNMENTAL BREAKDOWNS IN THERESPONSE TO HURRICANE KATRINA
Faltering Mobilization
The Response Began Slowly, with a General Feelingof Uncertainty and Inconsistency
Actions Were Uncertain, Contradictory, and Counter-productive
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MAJOR GOVERNMENTAL BREAKDOWNS IN THERESPONSE TO HURRICANE KATRINA
Garbled Communication
Government Personnel Did Not Communicate withOthers Who Were Involved in the Process
No One Seemed to Know “Who Was Doing What”
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GOVERNMENTAL BREAKDOWNS IN THE RESPONSETO HURRICANE KATRINA
Personnel Problems in Public Sector
Timid Leadership– Public Officials at All Levels ofGovernment Were Unwilling to Take Charge of theSituation
Untrained, Unprepared, and Understaffed PublicWorkforce Involved in Emergency Management
Privatization of Operations and Personnel Retirements and Demoralization of EmergencyManagement Staff
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MAJOR GOVERNMENTAL BREAKDOWNS IN THERESPONSE TO HURRICANE KATRINA
Inattention to Administrative Procedures
Nobody Followed the Response Plan, Including theMayor and the City Government in New Orleans andthe Louisiana’s Governor’s Office
Inappropriateness of Plans
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MAJOR GOVERNMENTAL BREAKDOWNS IN THERESPONSE TO HURRICANE KATRINA
Inability to Invoke Bureaucratic Flexibility (Effectively)
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WHAT WERE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THESEBREAKDOWNS?
Mismatch Between Governmental Policy and DisasterSituation– Led to Sizable Gap
Opened Up Other Societal Problems
Produced Public Dissatisfaction with GovernmentalResponse
Opened Up Other Concerns About GovernmentalPerformance
Created Widespread Perceptions of GovernmentalIncompetency and Ineptitude
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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CHANGE
Adjust the current organizational framework
Improve preparation and training
Give greater responsibility to state and localauthorities
Change existing policies and procedures
Provide greater oversight– legislative, citizen, etc.
Place the military in charge
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OBSTACLES TO EFFECTIVE CRISIS MANAGEMENT
• Crisis Management is a low-salience issue– until adisaster strikes
• Emergency managers and emergency service unitsmay not have strong political constituencies
• Resistance to preparation, mitigation is tough toovercome
• Difficult to measure the effectiveness of emergencymanagement policies and emergency serviceoperations– unless there is a disaster
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OBSTACLES TO EFFECTIVE CRISIS MANAGEMENT
• Money for emergency management programs islimited(drive to connect financial appropriations to tangibleoutcomes and specific indicators of success)
• Diversity of hazards complicates the assessment ofrisk and the design of comprehensive emergencyservice operations
• Misunderstanding about the cause, duration, andfrequency of crises
• “Crises are rare events/crises are inevitable”
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OBSTACLES TO EFFECTIVE CRISIS MANAGEMENT
Bureaucratization(Development of Bureaucratic Pathologies)
Public Dissatisfaction
Loss of Trust and Confidence
Politicalization
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WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?
THE LINKAGE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND THEPUBLIC IS FRAGILE
MAJOR EFFORTS WILL HAVE TO BE TAKEN TO RE-STORE THIS LINKAGE
IT IS POSSIBLE FOR THIS HAPPEN, BUT IT WILL TAKEPOLITICAL WILL, BUREAUCRATIC CHANGES, AND
CITIZEN SUPPORT