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Government's Response to Hurricane Katrina: A Public Choice Analysis

Public choice, 2006-04, Vol.127 (1/2), p.55-73 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright 2006 Springer ;Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2006 ;ISSN: 0048-5829 ;EISSN: 1573-7101 ;DOI: 10.1007/s11127-006-7730-3

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Title:
Government's Response to Hurricane Katrina: A Public Choice Analysis
Author: Sobel, Russell S. ; Leeson, Peter T.
Subjects: Bias ; Bureaucracy ; Congressional investigations ; Decision making ; Disaster relief ; Disasters ; Economic resources ; Editorial Commentaries on the Political Economy of Catastrophe in New Orleans ; Efficiency, Administrative ; Emergency management ; Emergency preparedness ; Error ; Evacuations & rescues ; Failure ; Federal emergency management agency ; Floods ; Government ; Government agencies ; Government bureaucracy ; Government officials ; Hurricanes ; Incentives ; Louisiana ; National security ; Natural disasters ; Policy studies ; Politics ; Public administration ; Public choice ; Public officials ; Public sector ; September 11 terrorist attacks-2001 ; Studies ; Terrorism ; U.S.A ; United States
Is Part Of: Public choice, 2006-04, Vol.127 (1/2), p.55-73
Description: We use public choice theory to explain the failure of FEMA and other governmental agencies to carry out effective disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The areas in which we focus are: (1) the tragedy of the anti-commons resulting from layered bureaucracy, (2) a type-two error policy bias causing over cautiousness in decision making, (3) the political manipulation of disaster declarations and relief aid to win votes, (4) the problem of acquiring timely and accurate preference revelations, (5) glory seeking by government officials, and (6) the shortsightedness effect causing a bias in governmental decision making.
Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0048-5829
EISSN: 1573-7101
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-006-7730-3
Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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Government's Response to Hurricane Katrina: A Public Choice Analysis

Copyright 2006 Springer ;Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2006 ;ISSN: 0048-5829 ;EISSN: 1573-7101 ;DOI: 10.1007/s11127-006-7730-3

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