Collaborative Research: (DRU): Shared Governance of Risk

本研究是一项涉及来自多个学科和机构的研究人员的合作项目，旨在研究联邦政府和州政府的风险共享治理。极端事件应对的特点直接取决于应对各种风险的优先级、参与组织整合不一致信息的能力以及各级政府做出的决策。本研究系统地探讨了联邦对州风险优先级、州风险优先级、联邦和州组织响应库以及对不一致信息响应的组织动态的影响。研究活动包括选定的联邦和州组织的案例研究，联邦风险政策和计划的实证研究，50个州风险关注的实证研究，以及组织能力和对极端事件反应的系统动态模拟。该研究将政策导向和设计等系统层面的问题与组织能力和反应等微观层面的问题联系起来。将开发对组织选择的新理解，将用于研究政策议程设置的政策过程注意力驱动模型与组织能力和极端事件反应的系统建模相结合。研究结果将有助于指导制定更灵活、反应更灵敏的政府间风险管理办法。这包括联邦计划的设计，诱导州活动的激励措施，以及对极端事件的组织反应的改进。该项目吸引研究生，并向本科生介绍风险政策和政治。

This research is a collaborative undertaking involving investigators from multiple disciplines and institutions in studying the shared governance of risk by the federal and state governments. The character of the response to extreme events is a direct consequence of priorities for addressing various risks, the capabilities of the participating organizations to incorporate discordant information, and the decisions made at multiple levels of government. This research systematically addresses federal influences on state risk priorities, state risk priorities, federal and state organizational response repertoires, and the organizational dynamics of response to discordant information. Research activities include case studies of selected federal and state organizations, empirical study of federal risk policy and programs, empirical study of risk attention in the 50 states, and systems-dynamic simulation of organizational capabilities and responses to extreme events.The research links the systemic-level issues of policy direction and design with the micro-level issues of organizational capabilities and response. A new understanding of organizational choice will be developed that integrates the policy process attention-driven model used to study policy agenda-setting with systems modeling of organizational capabilities and responses for extreme events. The findings will help guide development of more flexible and more responsive intergovernmental approaches to risk management. This includes the design of federal programs, incentives for inducing state activities, and improvement of organizational responses to extreme events. The project engages graduate students and introduces undergraduate students to risk policy and politics.