Disasters, Emergency Management,
Homeland Security
Photo credit: Jocelyn Augustino, FEMA
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Roberts, Patrick S. 2019. “Natural Hazards Governance in States with Developed Economies,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards Governance.
Wernstedt, Kris, Patrick S. Roberts, Joseph Arvai, and Kelly Redmond. 2019. “How Emergency Managers (Mis?)Interpret Forecasts,” Disasters 43(1): 88-109.
Roberts, Patrick S. and Kris Wernstedt. 2018. “Decision Biases and Heuristics Among Emergency Managers: Just Like the Public They Manage For?” American Review of Public Administration. September, 1-17, https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074018799490
Larson, Derek and Patrick S. Roberts. 2017. “How Two Traditions of Privacy Defenses in Image Capture Technology Inform the Debate over Drones,” I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Vol. 13, Issue 2 (Spring): 465-495.
Roberts, Patrick S. and Robert P. Saldin. 2017. “Why Presidents Sometimes Do Not UseIntelligence Information.” Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 131, Issue 4, (Winter): 779-802.
Roberts, Patrick S. and Kris Wernstedt. 2016. “Managing Uncertainty: Using Climate Forecasts Across a State’s Emergency Management Network,” Natural Hazards Review, 7 (3): 05016002-1-11.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2014. “The Forgotten Lessons of Civil Defense for the Homeland Security Era,”Journal of Policy History, special issue on disaster politics in the United States, 26 (3): 345-383. Video version available at: http://youtu.be/-TM1xv1dOEY
Roberts, Patrick S. 2013. “Discrimination in a Disaster Agency's Security Culture.” Administration & Society, 45 (4): 387-419.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2010. “Searching for a Network Administrative Organization in the Niger Food Crisis, 2004-2006,” Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 8, no. 4 (July/August) 1-11.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2009. “How Security Agencies Control Change: Executive Power and the Quest for Autonomy in the FBI and CIA,” Public Organization Review, Vol. 9, No. 2 (June): 169-198.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2009. “A Capacity for Mitigation as the Next Frontier in Homeland Security,” Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 124, No. 1 (Spring): 127-142.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2009. “An Unnatural Disaster,” Administration & Society (invited essay; not peer-reviewed), Vol. 41, No. 6 (2009): 763-769.
Wernstedt, Kris, Patrick S. Roberts and Matthew Dull. 2009. “Can Climate Signals Inform Emergency Management? Preliminary Evidence,” Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Vol. 6, Issue 1: http://www.bepress.com/jhsem/vol6/iss1/54
Roberts, Patrick S. 2008. “Dispersed Federalism as a New Regional Governance for Homeland Security,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 38, 3 (Summer): 416-443.
Stockton, Paul N. and Patrick S. Roberts. 2008. “Findings from the Forum on Homeland Security After the Bush Administration: Next Steps in Building Unity of Effort,” Homeland Security AffairsIV, no. 2 (2008), http://www.hsaj.org/?article=4.2.4
Roberts, Patrick S. 2007. “What the Catastrophist Heresy Teaches Public Managers,” Administrative Theory & Praxis, 29: 4 (2007), 546-566.
Roberts, Patrick. S. 2007. Toward a National Hazard Risk Assessment,” Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Communication/Research Note (4:3) (15 pgs.) August.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2006. “FEMA and the Prospects for Reputation-Based Autonomy,” Studies in American Political Development20 (Spring), 57-87.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2005. “What Katrina Means for Emergency Management,” The Forum, 3:3 (November), 1-10.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2005. “Shifting Priorities: Congressional Incentives and the Homeland Security Granting Process,” Review of Policy Research, 22:4 (July-August), 437-449.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2005. “The Master of Disaster as Bureaucratic Entrepreneur,” PS: Political Science & Politics, Research Note, 38:2, (April), 331.
Book Chapters
Roberts, Patrick S. In Press. “Homeland Security Law and Policy,” in National Security Law and Policy: A Reader. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Roberts, Patrick S., Kris Wernstedt, Joe Arvai, Kelly Redmond. In Press. “The Emergency Manager as Risk Manager,” chapter in The New Environmental Crisis, editors James Kendra and Scott Knowles (Springer).
Roberts, Patrick S., Robert Ward, and Gary Wamsley. 2014. “Evolution of Emergency Management in America,” Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, ed. Ali Farazmand (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press), 167-188.
Roberts, Patrick S., Robert Ward, and Gary Wamsley. 2012. “From a Painful Past to an Uncertain Future,” in Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2010, ed. Claire Rubin, (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis), 237-246.
Roberts, Patrick S., Robert Ward, and Gary Wamsley. 2012. “The Evolving Federal Role in Emergency Management: Policy and Processes,” in Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2010, ed. Claire Rubin, (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis), 247-276.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2012. “Homeland Security” in Oxford Encyclopedia of American and Political Legal History, Donald T. Critchlow and Philip R. VanderMeer, ed.,(New York: Oxford University Press), 446-448.
Coffey, Andrew and Patrick S. Roberts. 2012. “Disaster Policy” in Oxford Encyclopedia of American and Political Legal History, Donald T. Critchlow and Philip R. VanderMeer, ed.,(New York: Oxford University Press), 216-219.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2011. “Homeland Security,” in Governing America: Major Policies and Decisions of Federal, State, and Local Government, ed. William E. Cunion and Paul Quirk. Facts on File Press, 926-937.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2010.“Dispersed Federalism: Regional Governance for Disaster Policy,” inPolicy, Performance, and Management in Governance and Intergovernmental Relations: Transatlantic Perspectives,Edoardo Ongaro, Andrew Massey, Marc Holzer and Ellen Wayneberg, eds., (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar), 114-142.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2010. “Private Choices, Public Harms: The Evolution of US National Disaster Agencies,” in Disaster and the Politics of Intervention, ed. Andrew Lakoff (New York: Columbia University Press), 41-69.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2009. “FEMA After Katrina: Redefining Responsiveness,” in Federal Government Reorganization: A Policy and Management Perspective, Beryl A. Radin and Joshua Chanin, eds. (Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett, 2009), 221-224. Originally appeared as “FEMA After Katrina,” Policy Review, June/July 2006.
Wernstedt, Kris, Patrick Roberts, and Matthew Dull. 2009. “Do Long-Term Climate Forecasts Have a Role in Local Emergency Management?” in Ideas from an Emerging Field: Teaching Emergency Management in Higher Education, Jessica Hubbard, ed., (Fairfax, Va.: Public Entity Risk Institute), 169-196.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2009.“If Prevention Fails: Mitigation as Counterterrorism,” in Jihadists & Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Growing Threat, ed. Jeremy Tamsett (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press), 309-334.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2008. “Making ‘Risk-Based’ a Reality: Constructing a National Hazards Risk Assessment,” in Emergency Management in Higher Education: Current Practices ad Controversies, ed. Jessica Hubbard (Fairfax, Va.: Public Entity Risk Institute), 277-296.
Op-eds, Essays, and Reports
Roberts, Patrick S. 2017. Why presidents should stop showing up at disaster sites, Washington Post, September 13.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2017. “5 things that have changed about FEMA since Katrina – and 5 that haven’t,”The Conversation, September 12. Reprinted in Govexec.com, Salon.com and other outlets
Roberts, Patrick S. 2016. “A new mission for Homeland Security: managing risk,” The Hill, September 1.
Roberts, Patrick. S. and Yang Zhang. 2016. “Managing Flood Recovery.” Prepared for the Korean government KHRIS research institute, August 31.Used by the Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS) to develop policy recommendations for the Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) to assess and strengthen urban resilience to flood vulnerability associated with climate change.
Roberts, Patrick. S. and Yang Zhang. 2015. “Urban Resilience Policy to Preparefor Floods in the United States.” Prepared for the Korean government KHRIS research institute, July 1.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2015. “Retroview: The Centralization Paradox,” The American Interest, Vol. X, No. 6, (June/July, 2015): 90-96. (Essay on the work of Martha Derthick).
Roberts, Patrick S. and Kris Wernstedt. 2015. “Seasonal Climate Forecast Serves as a Call to Action.” U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website, Washington, D.C.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2014. “The Ebola Crisis as a Crisis of Public Trust.”The American Interest, October 15.
Knowles, Scott Gabriel and Roberts, Patrick S. 2012. “FEMA Needs to Refocus,” The Hill, November 27.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2010. “Our Responder in Chief,” National Affairs, vol. 5, Fall, 75-102.
Roberts, Patrick S. 2009. “Models of Network Governance for Technology and Security and Implications for Leadership in Energetics,” Blacksburg, Va.: Center for Public Administration and Policy, April 15, monograph, 59pp. Presented to the US Navy and the US Congress and publicly available.
Eden, Lynn, Michael May, Patrick S. Roberts, and Jacob Shapiro. 2006. An Analytical Approach to Preparedness for Homeland Security. Stanford, CA. Center for International Security and Cooperation.