The story of Katrina: New Orleans and the political economy of catastrophe
The story of Katrina: New Orleans and the political economy of catastrophe
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卡特里娜飓风的故事：新奥尔良和灾难的政治经济
DOI：
10.1007/s11127-006-7729-9
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发表时间：
2006
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影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Roger D. Congleton
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作者：
Roger D. Congleton
本文分析了导致“卡特里娜”的公共政策，特别关注了在新奥尔良地区造成不同寻常风险的政治决策。卡特里娜飓风造成的大部分死亡集中在一个地方，新奥尔良，这些损失在很大程度上是因为它的地理位置，以及它三个世纪以来“管理”与该地理位置有关的风险的努力。危机管理本质上比普通的政策制定更容易出错，因为意外意味着存在重大的信息问题，而紧迫性意味着没有时间完全解决这些问题（Congleton, 2005）。在新奥尔良，危机管理中不可避免的错误与卡特里娜飓风登陆前的政策选择、联邦制、党派政治、腐败和无能相结合。
This paper analyzes the public policies that lead to ‘`Katrina,’' paying particular attention to political decisions that created unusual risks in the New Orleans area. Most of the deaths from hurricane Katrina were concentrated in one place, New Orleans, and those losses arose in large part from its location in combination with its three century long effort to ‘`manage’' the risks associated with that location. Crisis management is inherently more error prone than ordinary policy making, because surprise implies the existence of significant information problems and urgency implies that time does not exist to completely address those problems (Congleton, 2005). In New Orleans the unavoidable mistakes of crisis management were compounded by policy choices made well before Katrina made landfall, as well as federalism, partisan politics, corruption, and incompetence.