Mandates and Management Challenges in the Trenches: An Intergovernmental Perspective on Homeland Security

Scholars and practitioners agree that homeland security policy implementation is contingent on a strong system of intergovernmental relations. The responsibilities associated with the homeland security mission, often mandated, cut across federal, state, and local boundaries. Local-level stakeholders...

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Published in:Public administration review 2006-07, Vol.66 (4), p.522-536
Main Authors: Caruson, Kiki, MacManus, Susan A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Central-local government relations
Cities
Cooperation
Coordination
Counterterrorism - United States
Counties
Departments
Disasters
Disasters - Emergency preparedness
Emergency management
Emergency preparedness
Emergency Programs
Enhancing Homeland Security from a Public Administration Perspective
Executives
Federalism
Feedback (Response)
Florida
Government
Government agencies
Government grants
Government mandates
Government services
Hurricanes
Hypotheses
Implementation
Indexing in process
Intergovernmental Relations
Internal security - United States
International Organizations
Jurisdiction
Law enforcement
Local government
Local government - Florida
National Security
Networks
Policy implementation
Policy making
Public administration
Public officials
Security management
Security Policy
September 11 terrorist attacks-2001
Stakeholders
State Aid
State-local relations
Statistical analysis
Studies
Task forces
Terrorism
U.S.A
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Summary:Scholars and practitioners agree that homeland security policy implementation is contingent on a strong system of intergovernmental relations. The responsibilities associated with the homeland security mission, often mandated, cut across federal, state, and local boundaries. Local-level stakeholders are especially important players in the implementation process. This article presents a local perspective on the way intergovernmental relations have changed-and the reasons for those changes-since 9/11. Results of a survey of county and city officials in Florida provide evidence that intergovernmental cooperation has improved as a result of federal and state mandates. These results are refined by an analysis of the effects of specific local characteristics and the quality and quantity of vertical and horizontal networks on intergovernmental cooperation and local preparedness. Homeland security appears to be a policy area in which mandated cooperation and coordination-in a time and place of urgency-have actually strengthened the intergovernmental system.
ISSN:0033-3352
1540-6210
DOI:10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00613.x