The Influence of Politics on Federal Disaster Declaration Decision Delays

Articles in the same Issue

1. Research Article
2. Use of Small-Scale Test Data to Enhance Fire-Related Threat, Vulnerability, Consequence and Risk Assessment for Passenger Rail Vehicles
3. Strategic Cyber Defense: Which Way Forward?
4. Effect of a Marketing Program on Freshman Student Registration for an Emergency Notification System
5. Strategic uses of Lessons for Building Collaborative Emergency Management System: Comparative Analysis of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Gustav Response Systems
6. The Relationship between Turkey's Provinces' Development Levels and Social and Economic Vulnerability to Disasters
7. A Review of the Key Legal dynamics of Chinese Military Involvement in Domestic Disaster Relief (MI/DDR)
8. Testing Social Vulnerability Theory: A Quantitative Study of Hurricane Katrina's Perceived Impact on Residents living in FEMA Designated Disaster Areas
9. If You Can't Trust, Stick to Hierarchy: Structure and Trust as Contingency Factors in Threat Assessment Contexts
10. Regional Disaster Risk: Assessment and Mitigation Concepts in an All-Hazards Context
11. Evacuation Patterns of Ethnic Groups Under Fire
12. Risk Informed Decision Framework for Integrated Evaluation of Countermeasures against CBRN Threats
13. The Influence of Politics on Federal Disaster Declaration Decision Delays
14. Cross-Sectoral Scanning of Critical Infrastructures: from Functional Differences to Policy-Relevant Similarities
15. Identifying Communication Strategies in Cases of Domestic Terrorism: Applying Cultural Context to the Fort Hood Shooting
16. The Evolving Role of the Public Information Officer: An Examination of Social Media in Emergency Management
17. Structural Dynamics of Organizations during the Evolution of Interorganizational Networks in Disaster Response
18. Investigating the Roots of Crisis Management Studies and Outlining Future Trajectories for the Field
19. The Multiplicity of Actors Involved in Securing America's Food Imports
20. Homeland Security as International Security? The Case for International Relations as Disciplinary Model
21. Challenges for Multi-sector Organizations in Tracking and Sheltering Registered Sex Offenders in Disasters
22. Communicating H1N1 Risk to College Students: A Regional Cross-Sectional Survey Study
23. Cultural Influence on the Implementation of Incident Command System for Emergency Management of Natural Disasters
24. Influencing Factors of Emergency Information Spreading in Online Social Networks: A Simulation Approach
25. Responding in Crises: A Comparative Analysis of Disaster Responses between Mainland China and Taiwan
26. Updating the National Planning Scenarios: Using Wicked Problems and Capability-Based Planning Concepts for Homeland Security
27. The 'Titanic Syndrome': Risk and Crisis Management on the Costa Concordia
28. Book Reviews
29. Review of Freedom and Order: How Democratic Governments Restrict Civil Liberties after Terrorist Attacks - and Why Sometimes They Don't
30. Review of National Security Reform: How Commissions Can Drive Change During Crises
31. Review of The Four Stages of Highly Effective Crisis Management
32. Communication/News
33. Public Health's Role in Understanding Community Resilience
34. Identifying Factors that Influence Terrorist Decisions and Target Selection
35. Opinion
36. Emerging Dangers from Direct Botulinum Access and Use
37. Failing to Establish a Unified Command in Louisiana During Hurricane Katrina