AN EXAMINATION OF EMERGENCY SERVICES RESEARCH IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

• Published in: Public administration quarterly Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 559 - 588
• Main Authors: HENDERSON, ALEXANDER C., CHARBONNEAU, ÉTIENNE
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA Southern Public Administration Education Foundation Inc 01.10.2016; SAGE Publications; Southern Public Administration Education Foundation, Inc; Southern Public Administration Education Foundation
• Subjects: Bureaucracy; Citizens; Collaboration; Community services; Crises; Data analysis; Data collection; Disasters; Emergency medical care; Emergency medical services; Emergency preparedness; Emergency services; Fire prevention; Fires; Human resources; Hurricanes; Law; Law enforcement; Medical treatment; Organizational behavior; Professionalism; Public administration; Public health; Public safety; Public services; Quantitative analysis; Research methodology; Sampling; Scholars; Theory; Traffic accidents & safety; United States > US; public safety; stock-taking; emergency services

The scholarly field of public administration has long embraced emergency management as a distinct area of inquiry, producing a substantial body of both conceptual and empirical research. However, not all emergency incidents are alike. Larger-scale crises and disasters differ in substantial ways from...