Stop Federalism Before it Kills Again: Reflections on Hurricane Katrina
17 Pages Posted: 3 Apr 2006
Date Written: March 2006
Abstract
Hurricane Katrina operated like a CT or MRI scan on governance in the United States and the results were not pretty. It is widely agreed that our separated system of federal, state, and local jurisdictions did not work together and did not work well. In this short article, I first survey the harm done by our federal system, then offer some historical perspective on what went wrong, and finally try to analyze what, if anything, we can learn from this experience.
Keywords: federalism, Hurricane Katrina, constitutional change, natural disasters
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Griffin, Stephen M., Stop Federalism Before it Kills Again: Reflections on Hurricane Katrina (March 2006). Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 06-04, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=894470 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.894470
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