{"title":"Stop Federalism Before it Kills Again: Reflections on Hurricane Katrina","authors":"S. Griffin","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.894470","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Hurricane Katrina operated like a CT or MRI scan on governance in the United States and the results were not pretty. It is widely agreed that our separated system of federal, state, and local jurisdictions did not work together and did not work well. In this short article, I first survey the harm done by our federal system, then offer some historical perspective on what went wrong, and finally try to analyze what, if anything, we can learn from this experience.","PeriodicalId":148953,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development","volume":"519 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"8","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.894470","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Hurricane Katrina operated like a CT or MRI scan on governance in the United States and the results were not pretty. It is widely agreed that our separated system of federal, state, and local jurisdictions did not work together and did not work well. In this short article, I first survey the harm done by our federal system, then offer some historical perspective on what went wrong, and finally try to analyze what, if anything, we can learn from this experience.