Public Preferences for Disaster Federalism: Comparing Public Risk Management Preferences Across Levels of Government and Hazards
基于俄克拉荷马州的调查数据，研究公众对全球变暖、地震和野火三种灾害的风险管理偏好，发现公众能根据灾害规模和范围匹配适当的政府层级，且对灾害成因的了解与偏好显著相关。
Abstract Despite a general lack of political knowledge among the public, research demonstrates that individuals intuitively know which level of government should be, and sometimes is, responsible for policy problems. In this article, we look at public federalism preferences in the context of disaster management, particularly for managing the risks associated with three different types of hazards—specifically global warming, earthquakes, and wildfires—and examine if their preferences are aligned with the division of responsibility in disaster management. Using survey data from Oklahoma, we find that individuals appropriately match their preferences to the intergovernmental nature of disaster federalism in the United States. Additionally, knowing the causes of these hazards is strongly associated with a preference for the appropriate, to disaster scope and scale, level of government. Finally, using seemingly unrelated regression techniques, we find that many, but not all, relationships are hazard general while some are hazard specific.