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

加州通常被视为地震安全政策的典范，无论是在国内还是国际上。 该项目有两个具体目标。 第一个是加州地震安全立法的12个主要部分的详细历史的发展，涵盖了50多年。 重点将是立法的起源及其在立法过程中的进展。 第二个目标是解释和测试一个模型，该模型采用地震安全政策（建筑安全）的一个特定子集，并试图通过将灾害事件、机构能力建设和政策创新相互关联来解释政策学习和演变，特别是在州一级。 数据将使用档案，文件，磁带和口述历史的来源，和参与者的观察成绩单。

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.