Thomas A. Birkland

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Thomas A. Birkland

Political Science

#1024

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#1259

Historical Rank

#542

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Thomas A. Birkland's Degrees

Bachelors Political Science University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas A. Birkland is a political scientist specializing in the study of public policy. Books include An Introduction to Public Policy , After Disaster , and Lessons of Disaster . He began his career at the University at Albany, The State University of New York. From 2007 to 2017 he was the William Kretzer Distinguished Professor of Public Policy in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. His work continues to focus on public policy theory, primarily in the fields of disasters, accidents, and homeland security.

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Thomas A. Birkland's Published Works

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An Introduction to the Policy Process: Theories, Concepts and Models of Public Policy Making (2001) (1132)
After Disaster: Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events (1997) (889)
Focusing Events, Mobilization, and Agenda Setting (1998) (712)
Media Framing and Policy Change After Columbine (2009) (206)
Lessons of Disaster: Policy Change After Catastrophic Events (2007) (181)
“The World Changed Today”: Agenda‐Setting and Policy Change in the Wake of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2004) (150)
Is Federalism the Reason for Policy Failure in Hurricane Katrina (2008) (146)
Disasters, Lessons Learned, and Fantasy Documents (2009) (135)
Guns, Hollywood, and School Safety: Defining the School‐Shooting Problem Across Public Arenas (2004) (117)
Agenda Setting in Public Policy (2017) (104)
Learning and Policy Improvement After Disaster (2004) (98)
Natural Disasters as Focusing Events: Policy Communities and Political Response (1996) (95)
River Ecology and Flood Hazard Mitigation (2003) (88)
Retrospectives and Prospectives on Hurricane Katrina: Five Years and Counting (2010) (86)
An Introduction to the POLICY PROCESS (2019) (74)
Disasters, Catastrophes, and Policy Failure in the Homeland Security Era1 (2009) (65)
Clinicians, cooks, and cashiers: Examining health equity and the COVID-19 risks to essential workers (2020) (56)
Building a Theory of Recovery: Institutional Dimensions (2012) (47)
Earthquake risk reduction: An examination of local regulatory efforts (1994) (47)
Emergency Response, Doctrinal Confusion, and Federalism in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2011) (44)
Focusing Events in Disasters and Development (2014) (43)
The Impact of the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami on Tourism in Thailand (2006) (30)
Lessons of Disaster (2006) (29)
Citizen participation in disaster recovery projects and programmes in rural communities: a comparison of the Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina. (2018) (25)
The Social and Political Meaning of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (2002) (24)
Focusing events and policy windows (2012) (23)
During Disaster: Refining the Concept of Focusing Events to Better Explain Long-Duration Crises (2021) (21)
Business and Political Dimensions in Disaster Management (2000) (19)
Agenda Setting and the Policy Process: Focusing Events (2019) (16)
Program evaluation in a challenging authorizing environment: Intergovernmental and interorganizational factors (2002) (16)
Law, Policymaking, and the Policy Process: Closing the Gaps (1998) (14)
Policy Process Theory and Natural Hazards (2016) (14)
In the Wake of the Exxon Valdez: How Environmental Disasters Influence Policy (1998) (14)
Disaster Research and Social Network Analysis: Examples of the Scientific Understanding of Human Dynamics at the National Science Foundation (2009) (13)
Focusing events, risk, and regulation (2014) (13)
Environmental and socioeconomic dynamics of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Penang, Malaysia (2008) (13)
Scientists and Coastal Hazards: Opportunities for Participation and Policy Change (2001) (12)
Socio-Technological Systems Integration to Support Tsunami Warning and Evacuation (2007) (12)
Defining, Explaining, and Testing the Role of Focusing Events in Agenda Change: 30 Years of Focusing Event Theory (2013) (9)
Factors inhibiting a national hurricane policy (1997) (8)
Encyclopedia Of Media and Politics (2006) (8)
Emergency Management in the Courts: Trends After September 11 and Hurricane Katrina (2007) (7)
Governing in a Polarized Era: Federalism and the Response of U.S. State and Federal Governments to the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) (7)
Disasters, Focusing Events, and Sociolegal Studies (2013) (7)
Addressing the contribution of indirect potable reuse to inland freshwater salinization (2020) (6)
Toward a rational and ethical sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles: A novel application of multi-criteria decision analysis (2021) (6)
Conceptualizing Resilience (2016) (5)
Attention and natural disasters (2016) (5)
Introduction: Risk, Disaster, and Policy in the 21st Century (2004) (4)
LINKING STRATEGIC PLANNING AND BUDGETING: A CASE STUDY OF THE NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (1991) (4)
The Politics and Policy Challenges of Disaster Resilience (2016) (4)
Agenda Setting, Power, and Interest Groups (2019) (3)
Models of the Policy Process (2007) (3)
Book Review: National Earthquake Probabilistic Hazard Mapping Program: Lessons for Knowledge Transfer (1998) (2)
Environmental Policy in New York State 1 (2005) (1)
Achieving Successful Long-Term Recovery and Safety from a Catastrophe: The Federal Role (2010) (1)
The Politics and Governance of Mitigation (2019) (1)
The United States in Chinese environmental policy narratives: Is there a trump effect? (2022) (1)
The Contexts of Public Policy Making (2019) (1)
Unofficial Actors and Their Roles in Public Policy (2019) (1)
Policy learning and change during crisis: COVID‐19 policy responses across six states (2022) (1)
Introducing the Policy Process (2019) (1)
Natural Hazards Governance: An Overview of the Field (2019) (1)
Lonna Rae Atkeson and Cherie D. Maestas. Catastrophic Politics: How Extraordinary Events Redefine Perceptions of Government. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2012. 273 pp. $99.00 (cloth). (2013) (0)
Emergency Management, Climate Change, and Complex Governance in the Arctic (2019) (0)
Fiscal Stress and Uncertainty in Local Government Finance (2015) (0)
Review of Meeting the Challenge of 9/11: Blueprints for More Effective Government (2007) (0)
Review of The Storm by Ivor van Heerden (2007) (0)
Putting It All Together: Models of the Policy Process (2019) (0)
Visual policy narrative messaging improves COVID-19 vaccine uptake (2023) (0)
Book review (2000) (0)
Policies and Policy Types (2019) (0)
The policy environment (2022) (0)
The Historical and Structural Context of Public Policy Making (2019) (0)
Book Review: Pathways of Power: The Dynamics of National Policymaking (2015) (0)
Agenda Setting, Groups, and Power (2019) (0)
Achieving Successful Long-Term Recovery and Safety from a Catastrophe: Recommendations from Hurricane Katrina-EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (2010) (0)
Book Review: Economic Consequences of Earthquakes: Preparing for the Unexpected (1998) (0)
Introduction (2004) (0)
Disasters and democracyRutherford H. Platt, with contributions by Miriam Gradie Anderson, Alexandra D. Dawson, Jessica Spelki Jansujwicz, Ute J. Dymon, K. Beth O’ Donnell, Claire B. Rubin and David Scherf; Island Press, Washington, DC, 1999, pp. xix+320 (2000) (0)
LEARNING FROM CATASTROPHES: STRATEGIES FOR REACTION AND RESPONSE ‐ edited by Howard Kunreuther and Michael Useem (2011) (0)
Fiscal Health Measurement and Policy Interventions in Local Governments (2016) (0)
Science and Theory in the Study of Public Policy (2019) (0)
Policy Implementation and Policy Failure (2019) (0)
Can Common Pool Resource Theory Catalyze Stakeholder-Driven Solutions to the Freshwater Salinization Syndrome? (2022) (0)
Policy Implementation, Failure, and Learning (2019) (0)
Policy Design and Policy Tools (2019) (0)
Policy Entrepreneurs and Individuals: Influence and Behavior in Pandemic Response (2023) (0)
Policy Analysis: Policy Process Models (2020) (0)
Crisis Agenda-Setting and Aviation Security Policy After the September 11 Attacks (2020) (0)
Turning to Digital Government in a Crisis: Coordinating Government, Business & Nonprofit Services in Response to the World Trade Center Attacks of September 11, 2001 (2004) (0)
Elements of the Policy-Making System (2019) (0)
Decision Making and Policy Analysis (2019) (0)
The Study and Practice of Public Policy (2019) (0)
Author Correction: Addressing the contribution of indirect potable reuse to inland freshwater salinization (2022) (0)
Review of Disaster Policy and Politics: Emergency Management and Homeland Security (2008) (0)

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