{"title":"Response to Ian Birdsall’s “Looking for the FEMA Guy: Part 1”","authors":"B. Cigler","doi":"10.1177/0095399709345626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399709345626","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":153353,"journal":{"name":"Administration and Society","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114961996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Are We All “Looking for the FEMA Guy”?","authors":"N. Kapucu","doi":"10.1177/0095399709346018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399709346018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":153353,"journal":{"name":"Administration and Society","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129639351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Look for the FEMA Guy?","authors":"F. Edwards","doi":"10.1177/0095399709346724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399709346724","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":153353,"journal":{"name":"Administration and Society","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125215655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to Ian Birdsall’s Essay “Looking for the FEMA Guy”","authors":"L. Comfort","doi":"10.1177/0095399709346725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399709346725","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":153353,"journal":{"name":"Administration and Society","volume":"519 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116258489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Restoring the Second State of Nature","authors":"R. C. Ward","doi":"10.1177/0095399709345455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399709345455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":153353,"journal":{"name":"Administration and Society","volume":"700 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132191771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to the Article by Ian Birdsall","authors":"L. Henderson","doi":"10.1177/0095399709346719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399709346719","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":153353,"journal":{"name":"Administration and Society","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125650164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"National Capital Bureaucracy as a Spatial Phenomenon","authors":"C. Beer","doi":"10.1177/0095399709341234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399709341234","url":null,"abstract":"Emphasizing bureaucracy as a communicative phenomenon involving localized knowledge—or metis—this article examines the place of the national capital city of Australia, Canberra, within the geographies of the Australian Public Service. First, drawing on research into knowledge clusters, the city is viewed as a key place of certain forms of communicative interaction. Second, drawing on the concept of metis, Canberra is discussed as a place potentially out of touch with the rest of Australia in terms of this form of knowledge but also as an essential site of accumulating metis essential to career progression within the national bureaucracy.","PeriodicalId":153353,"journal":{"name":"Administration and Society","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131852759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where Was the “FEMA Guy” . . . in Washington, in New Orleans, Retired . . . ?","authors":"W. Waugh","doi":"10.1177/0095399709345456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399709345456","url":null,"abstract":"Dr. Birdsall’s account of his experience during the Katrina disaster is compelling and telling. The disaster had tremendous human costs and has encouraged a reevaluation of the nation’s approach to catastrophic disasters. Congress responded by passing the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act to help restore the federal government’s capabilities to deal with such events. However, important provisions of the Post-Katrina Reform Act were ignored by the Bush Administration. Critical functions were not restored. Even finding a professional emergency manager willing to accept the position of FEMA administrator was difficult given the poor support given the agency prior to Katrina and the lack of assurance that that situation would improve substantially in the aftermath. The agency is still being rebuilt. Where was the “FEMA guy”? The agency was understaffed, underfunded, and under the direction of officials who knew little about emergency management. Morale was low. Many experienced FEMA employees had already fled the agency (Waugh, 2007b, 2008). The “FEMA guy,” as Dr. Birdsall found out, was likely to be a volunteer firefighter. He or she might also have been a contractor from a large consulting firm hired to fill in. Interestingly, FEMA employees who had historically been permitted to volunteer for disaster operations when their regular duties were not deemed essential to the effort were not given clearance to deploy. FEMA issued calls for trained emergency responders and even Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) members. Temporary disaster assistance employees were activated as well. The lack of attention to natural hazards by Department of Homeland Security officials also had a negative impact on state and local emergency management agencies in terms of reduced funding for capacity building to deal with natural and technological disasters","PeriodicalId":153353,"journal":{"name":"Administration and Society","volume":"s3-2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130083267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}