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A
MERICA
Vol. 48, No. 1
(
March 2018
)
,
1-71
©
Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
http://euramerica.orgExploring 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.twAbstract
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.