Shifting Priorities: Congressional Incentives and the Homeland Security Granting Process

Patrick S. Roberts

Review of Policy Research, 2005, vol. 22, issue 4, 437-449

Abstract: Small states receive more homeland security grant money per capita than large states because of the structure of representation and decision making in Congress. Beyond per capita allocations, the homeland security granting process affects the structure of state and local emergency management agencies, shifting priorities away from natural and technological disasters toward counterterrorism. I suggest using competitive grants, increasing the salience of the granting process, and changing the institutional setting in order to rationalize the granting process.

Date: 2005
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