Overview
- Offers novel approach to understanding disasters and disaster management and response
- Provides a timely analysis of the U.S. policy response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
- Represents a major updating of the previous edition with extended material in all chapters as well as a new chapter on COVID-19
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- public policy
- US public policy
- US Politics
- Stress testing
- disaster management
- War on Terror
- Hurricane Katrina
- Great Recession
- 2008 Financial Crisis
- Gulf Oil Spill
- COVID Pandemic
- Coronavirus
- climate change
- FEMA
- public health
- neoliberalism
- resilience
- crisis management
- disaster recovery
- US political system
About this book
Stress tests highlight a system’s weak spots. This second edition provides a stress testing of the United States by exploring in detail the background to the disasters of the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, the financial crisis, the Gulf oil spill and the COVID-19 epidemic. These major stresses—the country’s longest war, its biggest natural disaster, its biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression, its biggest oil spill and its worst pandemic since the influenza pandemic of 1918—tell us much about structural flaws in the United States. This book explores each of these events in detail to locate the seed of the disasters, and highlights what we have learned and not learned from these stress tests.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
John Rennie Short is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA. He is the author of 50 books, and his work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese. His essays have appeared in, amongst others, Business Insider, Conversation, Market Watch, Newsweek, Quartz, Salon, Slate, Time, Washington Post and World Economic Forum.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Stress Testing the USA
Book Subtitle: Public Policy and Reaction to Disaster Events
Authors: John Rennie Short
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65999-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65998-1Published: 17 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66001-7Published: 17 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65999-8Published: 16 May 2021
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: V, 188
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Political Science, Governance and Government, Public Administration