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Kwon, Sung-Wook. and Ok Choi, Sang. "Why Dissimilar Policy Punctuations Among Local Governments? Examining the Local Emergency Management Policy in Florida Counties" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Hotel InterContinental, New Orleans, LA, Jan 03, 2007 <Not Available>. 2008-12-16 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p143390_index.html>

Kwon, S. and Ok Choi, S. , 2007-01-03 "Why Dissimilar Policy Punctuations Among Local Governments? Examining the Local Emergency Management Policy in Florida Counties" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Hotel InterContinental, New Orleans, LA <Not Available>. 2008-12-16 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p143390_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Since Baumgartner and Jones published their book Agendas and Instability in American Politics in 1993, scholars of public policy have paid attention to elucidating the essential aspect of policy making. While the incrementalist view emphasizes static and incremental policy process, punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) focuses on explaining not only long-term stability but also punctuations and large-scale changes. Although national level policies have been mainly studied, the research trend of PET has been extended to the local level (for example, Jordan 2003). In spite of the growing interest in local government policies, a missing area is to investigate why punctuations in a policy are different among local governments regardless of their geographic closeness. This research question is of importance considering local governments may experience significantly different patterns of punctuations in a certain policy depending upon their policy environments. Based on this research question, this paper focuses on investigating punctuations in the local emergency management policy, to which more attention has been paid by American local governments. This paper examines factors which are expected to explain different patterns of policy punctuations: geographic characteristics, experience of disaster declaration, form of government, and home rule authority. We rely on the cross sectional panel data collected from 1993 to 2002 and conduct two stages of empirical analyses. After categorizing Florida counties into two groups based on each factor, we first test kurtosis of distributions of each county group. Next, we examine the frequency of punctuations of county expenditures by setting threshold standards.

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