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

这个项目是根据小额赠款探索性研究(SGER)计划提交的，调查公民如何利用媒体对卡特里娜飓风后果的解读，帮助他们建立一个框架，用来归罪于责任和解释与政策相关的信息。通过考察三个不同的框架，研究人员将研究这些框架如何导致对政府应对这场危机的有效性的不同解读。此外，该项目将允许研究人员检查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角色，国家、州和地方政府在灾难应对中的角色等。这项研究是由佛罗里达州立大学和新墨西哥大学的知名研究人员通过使用德克萨斯理工大学的设施进行的全国电话调查进行的。关于国家科学基金会的第二个审查标准--更广泛地适用于社会需求，这项研究收集了关于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，它解决了一个更大的问题，即公民对政府处理危机的能力和效率的看法。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.