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E

UR

A

MERICA

Vol. 48, No. 1

(

March 2018

)

,

1-71

©

Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica

http://euramerica.org

Exploring the Dynamics of Local

Emergency Management Collaboration

in the United States

What We Learned from Florida

County and City Emergency Managers’

Viewpoints

*



Kaiju Chang

Department of Public Administration, National Chengchi University

No. 64, Sec. 2, ZhiNan Rd., Taipei 11605, Taiwan

E-mail:

kchang@nccu.edu.tw

Abstract

This study uses a framework developed using the

perspectives of internal and external organizational

factors, and emergency management capacity to study the

drivers of emergency management collaboration (i.e.,

vertical,

horizontal-interlocal,

and

horizontal-

intersectoral collaborations) at the local level. Qualitative

data were collected by interviewing county and city

emergency managers in Florida to understand practical

Received September 12, 2017; accepted January 9, 2018; last revised January

10, 2018

Proofreaders: Yan-jun Guo, Yu-hsien Liao, Chia-Chi Tseng

*

The author would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable

comments and suggestions to improve the quality of the paper. The author is

also grateful to Dr. F. S. Berry for her insightful comments on an earlier

version of the manuscript.