Looking through the postdisaster policy window |
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Authors: | William D Solecki Sarah Michaels |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Geography, Florida State University, 32306 Tallahassee, Florida, USA;(2) Department of Geography, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | Policy windows are transitory opportunities during which the likelihood of adopting new policy or legislative proposals is
greater than usual. Accepted wisdom has held that natural disasters serve as focusing events that generate policy windows
in their wake. This paper highlights the need for a more circumscribed understanding of when and where policy windows occur
based on the experiences of three US regional planning organizations: a hand-picked commission of community leaders, a council
of governments, and a special-purpose substate organization. The first operated in the San Francisco Bay Area of California
following the Loma Prieta earthquake (October 1989), and the other two in South Carolina's Atlantic coastal plain after Hurricane
Hugo (September 1989). The analysis concludes that natural disasters did not transform the agenda or mission of these entities.
Policy windows were neither automatic outcomes of focusing events nor did they ensure the adoption of pertinent policy within
the organizations investigated. Several conditions are minimally necessary for using policy windows to bring about hazard
mitigation: comprehensive institutional conceptualization of hazards management, institutional strength and flexibility, and
well-placed, effective policy entrepreneurs. |
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Keywords: | Policy windows Issue saliency Regional planning organizations Disaster and hazards management |
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