Disaster by Management
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My comparison of the Columbia shuttle accident and the FBI's inability to head
off the future 9/11 terrorists framed the bureaucratic mishandling of
emergencies as "Disaster by Management"
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Public sector managerialism
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Shifts from precautionary principle to de minimis ideas
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Accumulation and legitimatization functions of government
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The tensions between risk assessment and risk management
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The normalization of anomaly in risk perception and behavior
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Normal accident theory vs. high reliability organizations
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Geography as silent agent in communication and hierarchy