Beverly A Cigler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1061292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beverly A Cigler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beverly A |
| FAMILY NAME | Cigler |
| SIGNATURE | CIGLER B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2599-0840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Nursing Homes and Covid-19
Less than 0.5% of the US population reside in nursing homes but accounted for about 40% of COVID-19 deaths before vaccinations became available. Pennsylvania’s large elderly population and 700 nursing homes are studied to examine the causes of problems and changes needed to improve nursing home outcomes. Community disease spread by low paid staff unknowingly asymptomatic with COVID-19 and working in multiple communities and facilities best explai…
Fighting Covid-19 in the United States with Federalism and Other Constitutional and Statutory Authority
The COVID-19 pandemic challenges a workable American federalism. The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reserves plenary responsibilities to states for promoting health and well-being; but states and their local governments suffer from a significant lack of resources and interjurisdictional competition during major emergencies. In this article, I argue that a president has significant constitutional and statutory authority for pandemic prep…
Public Administration and the Paradox of Professionalization
This chapter discusses significant realities of government structure and organization that generally have been overlooked or underplayed when reforms to guide these relations occur. As the professionalization of permanent career bureaucrats at all levels increased significantly, bureaucracy&s;s acceptance by its clients—citizens and political elites alike—decreased. The loss of respect associated with this "paradox of professionalization" is argu…
Emergency Management Research and Practice in Public Administration
In 1984, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) collaborated to foster a community of scholars focused on research and professional practice in emergency management. The intent was to build a community of researchers and professional practitioners who would support improved performance for an increasingly challenging set of problems confronting emergency…
Retrospectives and Prospectives on Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans’ recovery from the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 reflects a long, complex, contentious process that still is not complete. In this article, the authors explore the key factors that have supported and hindered recovery so far. Initial conditions within the city, the web of policy demands, as well as recent changes in law and procedures for the region are explored using a new model that may be applicable to other severe dis…
Response to Ian Birdsall’s “Looking for the Fema Guy
Mainstreaming Emergency Management into Public Administration
Conducting Research on Counties in the 21st Century
Given local, regional, national, and global events of the last few years and the ever‐increasing service roles and expectations of county governments, American counties warrant greater scholarly attention. To guide researchers, the research agenda published in this journal 15 years ago has been refined and expanded. This 11‐point agenda includes fiscal capacity and responsibility; the role of structure, politics, and political participation; inte…
The “Big Questions” of Katrina and the 2005 Great Flood of New Orleans
The “big questions” associated with Hurricane Katrina and the great flood of New Orleans lie at the intersection of the natural and human‐shaped environments. The interactions dominating the intersection of the two environments are found in the social‐political‐economic system, culture and history, intergovernmental relations, and law. The big questions are not whether specific individuals were to blame for the destruction of lives and property, …
Pre-conditions for the Emergence of Multicommunity Collaborative Organizations1
This article looks at collaborative actions in small, rural communities. Collaborative actions involve strong linkages among a stable membership in specific and often complex purposes and usually are long term. They involve formal processes and structural patterns of collaboration. They emerge from disaster occurrences which trigger fiscal stress or perceived stress to form collaborative action. Since there is often no push by public opinion to m…
The County-State Connection
importantpart of the rethinking and restructuring ofgovernment in the 1990s, and this research helps shape the discussion. Interest is growing in the roles, responsibilities, and performance of the nation's 3,042 counties as they assume increasing responsibilities in the federal system. National associations representing local governments (e.g., National Association of Counties [NACo], International City/County Management Association [ICMA]), the…
Challenges Facing Fiscal Federalism in the 1990s
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Setting a Research Agenda for the Study of the American County
"Bureaucracy" in the Introductory American Government Textbook
Public Administration and the Paradox of Professionalization
Rural Community Responses to a National Mandate
Rural governments face a difficult task in complying with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which requires detailed planning, land use ordinances, and effective enforcement provisions to reduce flood losses. This study analyzes responses from a national sample of officials in 852 nonmetropolitan NFIP communities and flood management officials in all fifty state governments. Rural officials perceive their overall floodplain management p…
Environmental Policy and Management
Fiscal Stress
Small City and Rural Governance
Intergovernmental Roles in Local Energy Conservation
This article examines a frontier research area: local energy conservation and intergovernmental relations. The vast potential for financial and energy savings by local governments through energy conservation is contrasted to a significant lack of meaningful programs by reviewing current local programs through examination of research efforts, intergovernmental trends in assistance and the legal foundation for local energy roles. Several items for …
Housing and Public Policy in America
Mandated Expertise
The article looks at the delivery process in capacity-building assistance. Specifically, federal and state mandated requirements that local governments use certain types of professional expertise, or be denied funding, are examined in the land use policy area. The assumption that both expertise and efficiency can be transferred to local governments from other public-sector organizations or the private-sector consulting firms is analyzed by drawin…
Organizing for Local Energy Management
expenditures per revenue vehicle hour; (4) revenue passengers divided by the service area population; (5) total passengers per vehicle; (6) revenue passengers per revenue vehicle hour; (7) operating expenditures divided by total passengers; (8) operating expenditures divided by revenue passengers; (9) percent of population served. State funded research includes: Gordon J. Fielding and Roy Glauthier, Distribution and of Subsidies in Institute of T…
Conducting Research on Counties in the 21st Century
Given local, regional, national, and global events of the last few years and the ever‐increasing service roles and expectations of county governments, American counties warrant greater scholarly attention. To guide researchers, the research agenda published in this journal 15 years ago has been refined and expanded. This 11‐point agenda includes fiscal capacity and responsibility; the role of structure, politics, and political participation; inte…
Pre-conditions for the Emergence of Multicommunity Collaborative Organizations1
This article looks at collaborative actions in small, rural communities. Collaborative actions involve strong linkages among a stable membership in specific and often complex purposes and usually are long term. They involve formal processes and structural patterns of collaboration. They emerge from disaster occurrences which trigger fiscal stress or perceived stress to form collaborative action. Since there is often no push by public opinion to m…
Retrospectives and Prospectives on Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans’ recovery from the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 reflects a long, complex, contentious process that still is not complete. In this article, the authors explore the key factors that have supported and hindered recovery so far. Initial conditions within the city, the web of policy demands, as well as recent changes in law and procedures for the region are explored using a new model that may be applicable to other severe dis…
Fighting Covid-19 in the United States with Federalism and Other Constitutional and Statutory Authority
The COVID-19 pandemic challenges a workable American federalism. The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reserves plenary responsibilities to states for promoting health and well-being; but states and their local governments suffer from a significant lack of resources and interjurisdictional competition during major emergencies. In this article, I argue that a president has significant constitutional and statutory authority for pandemic prep…
Rural Community Responses to a National Mandate
Rural governments face a difficult task in complying with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which requires detailed planning, land use ordinances, and effective enforcement provisions to reduce flood losses. This study analyzes responses from a national sample of officials in 852 nonmetropolitan NFIP communities and flood management officials in all fifty state governments. Rural officials perceive their overall floodplain management p…
Challenges Facing Fiscal Federalism in the 1990s
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Small City and Rural Governance
Intergovernmental Roles in Local Energy Conservation
This article examines a frontier research area: local energy conservation and intergovernmental relations. The vast potential for financial and energy savings by local governments through energy conservation is contrasted to a significant lack of meaningful programs by reviewing current local programs through examination of research efforts, intergovernmental trends in assistance and the legal foundation for local energy roles. Several items for …
Mandated Expertise
The article looks at the delivery process in capacity-building assistance. Specifically, federal and state mandated requirements that local governments use certain types of professional expertise, or be denied funding, are examined in the land use policy area. The assumption that both expertise and efficiency can be transferred to local governments from other public-sector organizations or the private-sector consulting firms is analyzed by drawin…
Organizing for Local Energy Management
expenditures per revenue vehicle hour; (4) revenue passengers divided by the service area population; (5) total passengers per vehicle; (6) revenue passengers per revenue vehicle hour; (7) operating expenditures divided by total passengers; (8) operating expenditures divided by revenue passengers; (9) percent of population served. State funded research includes: Gordon J. Fielding and Roy Glauthier, Distribution and of Subsidies in Institute of T…
Intergovernmental Roles in Local Energy Conservation
This article examines a frontier research area: local energy conservation and intergovernmental relations. The vast potential for financial and energy savings by local governments through energy conservation is contrasted to a significant lack of meaningful programs by reviewing current local programs through examination of research efforts, intergovernmental trends in assistance and the legal foundation for local energy roles. Several items for …
Housing and Public Policy in America
Small City and Rural Governance
Fiscal Stress
Rural Community Responses to a National Mandate
Rural governments face a difficult task in complying with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which requires detailed planning, land use ordinances, and effective enforcement provisions to reduce flood losses. This study analyzes responses from a national sample of officials in 852 nonmetropolitan NFIP communities and flood management officials in all fifty state governments. Rural officials perceive their overall floodplain management p…
Environmental Policy and Management
Public Administration and the Paradox of Professionalization
"Bureaucracy" in the Introductory American Government Textbook
Setting a Research Agenda for the Study of the American County
Challenges Facing Fiscal Federalism in the 1990s
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The County-State Connection
importantpart of the rethinking and restructuring ofgovernment in the 1990s, and this research helps shape the discussion. Interest is growing in the roles, responsibilities, and performance of the nation's 3,042 counties as they assume increasing responsibilities in the federal system. National associations representing local governments (e.g., National Association of Counties [NACo], International City/County Management Association [ICMA]), the…
Pre-conditions for the Emergence of Multicommunity Collaborative Organizations1
This article looks at collaborative actions in small, rural communities. Collaborative actions involve strong linkages among a stable membership in specific and often complex purposes and usually are long term. They involve formal processes and structural patterns of collaboration. They emerge from disaster occurrences which trigger fiscal stress or perceived stress to form collaborative action. Since there is often no push by public opinion to m…
Conducting Research on Counties in the 21st Century
Given local, regional, national, and global events of the last few years and the ever‐increasing service roles and expectations of county governments, American counties warrant greater scholarly attention. To guide researchers, the research agenda published in this journal 15 years ago has been refined and expanded. This 11‐point agenda includes fiscal capacity and responsibility; the role of structure, politics, and political participation; inte…
The “Big Questions” of Katrina and the 2005 Great Flood of New Orleans
The “big questions” associated with Hurricane Katrina and the great flood of New Orleans lie at the intersection of the natural and human‐shaped environments. The interactions dominating the intersection of the two environments are found in the social‐political‐economic system, culture and history, intergovernmental relations, and law. The big questions are not whether specific individuals were to blame for the destruction of lives and property, …
Response to Ian Birdsall’s “Looking for the Fema Guy
Mainstreaming Emergency Management into Public Administration
Retrospectives and Prospectives on Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans’ recovery from the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 reflects a long, complex, contentious process that still is not complete. In this article, the authors explore the key factors that have supported and hindered recovery so far. Initial conditions within the city, the web of policy demands, as well as recent changes in law and procedures for the region are explored using a new model that may be applicable to other severe dis…
Emergency Management Research and Practice in Public Administration
In 1984, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) collaborated to foster a community of scholars focused on research and professional practice in emergency management. The intent was to build a community of researchers and professional practitioners who would support improved performance for an increasingly challenging set of problems confronting emergency…
Public Administration and the Paradox of Professionalization
This chapter discusses significant realities of government structure and organization that generally have been overlooked or underplayed when reforms to guide these relations occur. As the professionalization of permanent career bureaucrats at all levels increased significantly, bureaucracy&s;s acceptance by its clients—citizens and political elites alike—decreased. The loss of respect associated with this "paradox of professionalization" is argu…
Nursing Homes and Covid-19
Less than 0.5% of the US population reside in nursing homes but accounted for about 40% of COVID-19 deaths before vaccinations became available. Pennsylvania’s large elderly population and 700 nursing homes are studied to examine the causes of problems and changes needed to improve nursing home outcomes. Community disease spread by low paid staff unknowingly asymptomatic with COVID-19 and working in multiple communities and facilities best explai…
Fighting Covid-19 in the United States with Federalism and Other Constitutional and Statutory Authority
The COVID-19 pandemic challenges a workable American federalism. The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reserves plenary responsibilities to states for promoting health and well-being; but states and their local governments suffer from a significant lack of resources and interjurisdictional competition during major emergencies. In this article, I argue that a president has significant constitutional and statutory authority for pandemic prep…
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