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Grossman, Andrew. "'So Dysfunctional ... it's Frightening': The Department of Homeland Security and Public Policy in the Car Bomb Age" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2010-01-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209934_index.html>

Grossman, A. D. , 2007-08-30 "'So Dysfunctional ... it's Frightening': The Department of Homeland Security and Public Policy in the Car Bomb Age" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2010-01-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209934_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: After the attacks on September 11, 2001 (9/11), the moribund public policy of “civilian defense” got a new name: “homeland security”; although the semantic change had its supporters and detractors (the Orwellian ring did not sit well with many), it did not translate into an efficient national policy. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has endured public ridicule since it was established, but why does it seem so inept? My question is: why the push for a highly centralization of civilian defense/homeland security bureaucracy in the face of sixty years of failure in this particular policy arena? I contend that, given the structure of the American state, a massive, centralized, and growing bureaucracy that is primarily a policing entity is a problematic institution for the implementation of a comprehensive national civilian defense policy. This essay has three parts: In the first section, the DHS is considered in historical perspective. What came before and how did it affect the organizational structure of the homeland security apparatus? In a sense, the DHS is a bureaucratic institution that was born to fail; that is, it is pastiche of emergency management agencies that seemingly are not equipped to handle a variety of civil defense policies. This ad hoc approach to state-building is not, for the most part, a result of incompetent professionals or legislators (most of whom are trying to do good); instead, it is a consequence of an enigma related to American political development (APD): the American state has proven supremely adept at war mobilization and war-fighting, but not at creating long-term internal security bureaucracies. The second part of the essay examines a particular kind of policy (an old strategy): deterrence by denial as one possible way to define civilian defense/homeland security policy. Finally, the third section of the essay concludes with some ideas of possible ways to re-conceptualize a public policy of homeland security.

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