The politics of vulnerability: constructing local performance regimes for homeland security.

From: The Review of Policy Research | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Regardless of the national character of homeland security policy, the reality is that all terrorism is local. Ultimately so are all security initiatives. Paradoxically, the greater the national security threats, the more important the local role in the United States. In this article we examine the attributes of homeland security initiatives--particularly the tension between risk and vulnerability--and the governance dilemmas they pose for local communities. In contrast to the usual emphasis on coordination and capacity, we argue for conceptualizing local imperatives attendant to ...

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