Earthquake Disasters and Policy Change: A "Patterned Opportunism" Model of California Seismic Safety Innovations

加州经常被视为地震安全政策的典范，无论是在国内还是国际上。这个项目有两个具体目标。首先是加州地震安全立法的12项主要条款的详细历史发展，涵盖了50多年。重点将放在立法的起源及其在立法过程中的进展。第二个目标是阐述和测试一个模型，该模型采用地震安全政策的特定子集(建筑安全)，并试图通过将灾害事件、机构能力建设和政策创新联系起来，解释政策的学习和演变，特别是在国家一级。将使用来自档案、文件、磁带和来自口述历史来源的文字记录以及参与者观察的数据。

California is often seen as a model for seismic safety policy, both nationally and internationally. This project has two specific objectives. The first is the development of a detailed history of 12 major pieces of California seismic safety legislation covering more than 50 years. The focus will be on the origins of the legislation and its move through the legislative process. The second objective is the explication and testing of a model that takes a particular subset of seismic safety policy (building safety) and attempts to explain policy learning and evolution, especially at the state level, by interrelating disaster events, institutional capacity building, and policy innovation. Data will be used from archives, documents, tapes and transcripts from an oral history source, and participant observation.