Collaborative Research: (DRU): Shared Governance of Risk

这项研究是一项合作项目，涉及来自多个学科和机构的调查人员，研究联邦和州政府共同治理风险的问题。对极端事件的反应的性质是应对各种风险的优先事项、参与组织纳入不一致信息的能力以及各级政府作出的决定的直接结果。本研究系统地研究了联邦政府对州风险优先顺序、州风险优先顺序、联邦和州组织反应曲目的影响，以及对不协调信息的反应的组织动态。研究活动包括对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个州风险注意力的实证研究，以及组织能力和应对极端事件的系统动态模拟，研究将政策导向和设计的系统性问题与组织能力和应对的微观层面联系起来。将形成对组织选择的新理解，将用于研究政策议程制定的政策进程注意力驱动模式与组织能力和应对极端事件的系统模型相结合。这些调查结果将有助于指导制定更灵活、更顺应形势的政府间风险管理办法。这包括设计联邦计划，鼓励州政府开展活动，以及改进组织对极端事件的反应。该项目吸引了研究生，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.