The County Emergency Manager's Role in Recovery

Jensen, Jessica; Bundy, Sarah J.; Thomas, Brian G.; Yakubu, Mariama

doi:10.1177/028072701403200107

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The Role of the County‐Elected Official in Disaster Recovery

Bundy¹,

Jensen²

2015

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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Disaster recovery literature suggests that local governments are primarily responsible for the disaster recovery process within their communities. This literature also implies that part of this local government responsibility includes coordinating the different parts of the distributed function. Yet, it remains unknown how this responsibility for recovery—including coordination—is distributed within and across local government. This study explored the role of county‐elected officials in disaster recovery in an attempt to understand what role these elected officials currently play in the recovery process—particularly as related to the coordination of recovery efforts. Data were collected through 20 in‐depth, telephonic interviews with county‐elected officials in 12 states. Grounded theory was used to conceptualize the overall research design and analyze the data. The data showed that the role of the county‐elected officials could best be characterized as an extension of their routine role within the county government with no coordination function evident. Possible explanations of this finding related to role are offered and the implications of this finding for disaster recovery policy, practice, and scholarship are discussed.

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The Role of the County‐Elected Official in Disaster Recovery

Bundy¹,

Jensen²

2015

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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Representative bureaucracy and COVID‐19 among local emergency response professionals

Hildebrand,

Malone

2024

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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This article considers the opinions of local emergency management professionals with regard to the response of the US federal government to the COVID‐19 pandemic. The responses to a survey from May/June 2020 demonstrate that these feelings, ranging from highly successful to extremely poor, are reflective of the culture at large in the nation. The study will examine whether the feelings expressed by local officials are reflective of prevailing political leanings of their constituency, measured as the presidential voting habits from 2000 to 2020 in the respondent's jurisdiction. This will extend Hildebrand's (2020) testing which linked the emergency management field to the theory of “representative bureaucracy.” This theory surmises that government actors will be reflective of their body politic in their behavior and attitudes toward federal initiatives. The findings suggest that those who represent “Strong Republican” jurisdictions have greater odds in rating the federal response as being effective, and that those from “Strong Democrat” locations will have greater odds in rating the federal response as not effective at all. Statistical testing also suggests that as the population of the jurisdiction increases, the less likely the respondent was to consider the federal response to COVID‐19 effective.

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Community Processes: Coordination

Drabek

2017

Handbook of Disaster Research

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The County Emergency Manager's Role in Recovery

Cited by 8 publications

References 93 publications

The Role of the County‐Elected Official in Disaster Recovery

The Role of the County‐Elected Official in Disaster Recovery

Representative bureaucracy and COVID‐19 among local emergency response professionals

Community Processes: Coordination

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