[PDF] Federalism Homeland Security eBook

Author : Matt A. Mayer
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,88 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Civil defense
ISBN :

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Argues that the federal model of homeland security is failing, and promotes a model that restores power to the nation's governors and mayors and that will be less costly and more successful.

Author : John Morton
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1612510892

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Security governance in the second decade of the 21st century is ill-serving the American people. Left uncorrected, civic life and national continuity will remain increasingly at risk. At stake well beyond our shores is the stability and future direction of an international political and economic system dependent on robust and continued U.S. engagement. Outdated hierarchical, industrial structures and processes configured in 1947 for the Cold War no longer provide for the security and resilience of the homeland. Security governance in this post-industrial, digital age of complex interdependencies must transform to anticipate and if necessary manage a range of cascading catastrophic effects, whether wrought by asymmetric adversaries or technological or natural disasters. Security structures and processes that perpetuate a 20th century, top-down, federal-centric governance model offer Americans no more than a single point-of-failure. The strategic environment has changed; the system has not. Changes in policy alone will not bring resolution. U.S. security governance today requires a means to begin the structural and process transformation into what this book calls Network Federalism. Charting the origins and development of borders-out security governance into and through the American Century, the book establishes how an expanding techno-industrial base enabled American hegemony. Turning to the homeland, it introduces a borders-in narrative—the convergence of the functional disciplines of emergency management, civil defense, resource mobilization and counterterrorism into what is now called homeland security. For both policymakers and students a seminal work in the yet-to-be-established homeland security canon, this book records the political dynamics behind the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the impact of Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing development of what is now called the Homeland Security Enterprise. The work makes the case that national security governance has heretofore been one-dimensional, involving horizontal interagency structures and processes at the Federal level. Yet homeland security in this federal republic has a second dimension that is vertical, intergovernmental, involving sovereign states and local governments whose personnel are not in the President’s chain of command. In the strategic environment of the post-industrial 21st century, states thus have a co-equal role in strategy and policy development, resourcing and operational execution to perform security and resilience missions. This book argues that only a Network Federal governance will provide unity of effort to mature the Homeland Security Enterprise. The places to start implementing network federal mechanisms are in the ten FEMA regions. To that end, it recommends establishment of Regional Preparedness Staffs, composed of Federal, state and local personnel serving as co-equals on Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) rotational assignments. These IPAs would form the basis of an intergovernmental and interdisciplinary homeland security professional cadre to build a collaborative national preparedness culture. As facilitators of regional unity of effort with regard to prioritization of risk, planning, resourcing and operational execution, these Regional Preparedness Staffs would provide the Nation with decentralized network nodes enabling security and resilience in this 21st century post-industrial strategic environment.

Author : Larry N. Gerston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317477251

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Understanding federalism - the form of political organization that unites separate polities within an overarching political system so that all maintain their political integrity - is central to the study of democratic government in the United States. Yet, many political scientists treat federalism as a set of abstract principles or a maze of budgetary transfers with little connection to real political life. This concise and engaging book boils the discussion down to its essence: federalism is about power, specifically the tug for power among and within the various levels of government. Author Larry N. Gerston examines the historical and philosophical underpinnings of federalism; the various "change events" that have been involved in defining America's unique set of federal principles over time; and the vertical, horizontal, and international dimensions of federalism in the United States today. The result is a book examining the ways in which institutional political power is both diffused and concentrated in the United States.

Author : Samuel H. Clovis (Jr)
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 2006
Category :
ISBN : 9781109907131

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Since the events of September 11, 2001, all levels and branches of government have been focused on how best to assess national preparedness so that appropriate resource decisions can be made to enhance the nation's ability to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from major catastrophic events. In nearly all national level policy documents dealing with national preparedness, particular mention is given to the principle of federalism as the foundation of American government and governance. However, as the development of public policy related to national preparedness evolved, one became aware that federalism meant (means) different things to different agencies, branches, and levels of government. As the nation has not faced this large a governance challenge since the end of the last world war, ensuring that a balanced perspective of federalism is in place as national preparedness policy evolves is a necessary condition for ensuring the safety of the nation and its citizens. Observation of intergovernmental relations and the associated actions of different levels of government in this policy arena indicate that three dominant theories of federalism exist and are in conflict. Those theories are cooperative federalism, coercive federalism, and competitive federalism. What is suggested by the literature and the qualitative analysis of associated intergovernmental relations, institutional pathologies, and persistent barriers to optimal policy development is that the nation is currently pursuing suboptimal policies for protecting the nation, and a more normative theory of federalism is appropriate---a theory that incorporates the constructive attributes of each theory while mitigating the negative manifestations of each, a theory whose fundamental attribute is collaboration. Specifically, this research effort focuses, in subsequent steps, on the conflicting theories of federalism affecting national preparedness policy, the evolution of policies and actions associated with the distribution of funds through federal grants in aid for national preparedness, and suggested normative actions to achieve the greatest possible level of national preparedness.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2018-01-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781984212474

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Federalism and disaster response : examining the roles and responsibilities of local, state, and federal agencies : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, October 19, 2005.