SGER Collaborative Research : Who is to Blame? Public Perceptions of the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Preferences for Policy Change

这个项目下提交的探索性研究（SGER）计划的小赠款调查公民如何使用卡特里娜飓风的后果，以帮助他们开发一个框架，归因于指责和解释政策相关信息的媒体解释。 通过研究三种不同的框架，研究人员将研究这些框架如何导致对政府应对危机的有效性的不同解释。此外，该项目将使研究人员能够研究这些框架如何塑造公民对未来政策的偏好，如联邦应急管理局的作用，国家，州和地方政府在灾害应对中的作用等。这项研究正在进行的杰出研究人员在佛罗里达州立大学和新墨西哥州大学通过全国电话调查使用的设施在得克萨斯理工大学。 关于国家科学基金会的第二个审查标准，即对社会需求的更广泛适用性，该研究收集了有关不同框架如何影响公民对自然灾害的解释和政府对自然灾害的反应的基本数据。 因此，它解决了公民对政府处理危机的能力和有效性的看法这一更大的问题。 研究结果应适用于各种危机，包括自然灾害、恐怖主义行为和技术灾难。

This project submitted under the Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER) program investigates how the citizens use media interpretations of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to help them develop a framework with which to attribute blame and interpret policy relevant information. By examining three different frameworks, the researchers will study how these lead to different interpretations of the effectiveness of the government's response to this crisis. In addition, this project will allow the researchers to examine how these frameworks shape citizens' preferences for future policies such as the role of FEMA, the role of national, state, and local government in disaster response, etc.This research is being conducted by prominent researchers at Florida State University and the University of New Mexico through a national phone survey using the facilities at Texas Tech University. With respect to the second review criterion of the National Science Foundation, broader applicability to societal needs, the research gathers fundamental data on how different frameworks impact citizens' interpretations of natural disasters and governmental responses to the same. Accordingly, it addresses the larger question of citizens' views of the capacity and effectiveness of the government to deal with crisis. The results should be applicable to a wide variety of crises including natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and technological disasters.