Richard Stuart Olson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 387696 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Stuart Olson |
| PRENOMES | Richard Stuart |
| SOBRENOME | Olson |
| ASSINATURA | OLSON R S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4921-7174 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 178 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Public Support for Disaster Risk Reduction
Studies in public policy have suggested that disasters can potentially serve as “focusing events”, catalyzing significant changes to disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies and practices. How and why this effect does (or does not) ensue, and for how long, are less well understood. This article tests hypotheses about the nature and duration of the impact of a major hazard event on public support for DRR policies and their implementation. It does so…
Disasters and corruption
Disaster corruption is a vexing problem, damaging state legitimacy and exacerbating human suffering. Mexico has a history of both major disasters and persistently high levels of corruption. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2017 provided an opportunity to study change over time in expectations and tolerance of corruption in disaster relief. Twenty years earlier, Mexico City residents expected, on average, essentially three out of 10 hypothetical truc…
From Disaster Risk Reduction to Policy Studies
Major conceptual and empirical advances over the past three decades have clarified how natural hazard events interact with community and human exposures and vulnerabilities to create risks that then become emergencies, disasters, or in the worst combinations, catastrophes. However, corresponding disaster risk reduction (DRR) knowledge and technology exist to significantly lessen the impacts of hazard events, but in many countries, including the U…
Disasters as Crisis Triggers for Critical Junctures? The 1976 Guatemala Case
This article focuses on the 1976 Guatemala earthquake disaster as a possible crisis trigger, in a relatively strict application of the critical juncture analytical approach. It expands to include the broader question of what conditions might cause disasters to trigger crises that open critical junctures for nation-states. The research concludes that the 1976 Guatemala disaster led to a high degree of community self-organizing and alliance-buildin…
Public Response to Disaster Response
A recent paper in this journal proposed that post-impact public evaluations of governmental disaster performance may be usefully understood and analyzed along six “5C+A” dimensions: capability, competence, compassion, correctness, credibility, and anticipation. Using post-disaster public opinion data from El Salvador in 2001 and Peru in 2007, we offer the first empirical tests of this 5C+A approach, finding that it cannot be disconfirmed at this …
Establishing public accountability, speaking truth to power and inducing political will for disaster risk reduction
The problem is that disaster risk reduction (DRR) is still more a zone of political darkness than of light. Therefore, the purpose of our contribution to this theme issue is to illuminate at least some of that zone of political darkness and to suggest a more proactive, but for many career professionals a personally problematic, way forward for DRR. The career problematic derives from the fact that the way forward would involve moving from applaud…
From Disaster Event to Political Crisis
Journal Article From Disaster Event to Political Crisis: A "5C+A" Framework for Analysis Get access Richard Stuart Olson, Richard Stuart Olson Florida International University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Vincent T. Gawronski Vincent T. Gawronski Birmingham-Southern College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 11, Issue 3, Au…
The Politics of Humanitarian Aid
Previous studies of U.S. foreign aid have firmly established that foreign policy and domestic considerations strongly influence allocations of military and economic development assistance. Uncharted, however, is the question of similar influences on U.S. humanitarian aid. Analyzing U.S. foreign disaster assistance data from 1964 through 1995, this paper concludes that foreign policy and domestic factors not only influence disaster assistance allo…
Toward a Politics of Disaster
Offering exemplars from around the world, including China, Mexico, Nicaragua, and California, this paper argues that disasters must be understood and analyzed more deeply and more often as explicitly political events. The paper also argues that because politics is the “authoritative allocation of values, “ the politics-disaster nexus revolves around the allocation of several important values: life safety in the pre-event period, survival in the e…
Normal’ versus ‘special’ time corruption
This essay examines the relationship between corruption and political stability, with particular emphasis on Mexico. Through careful analysis of public opinion surveys from 1997–1998, exploring the differential attitudes towards ‘normal time corruption’ and ‘special time corruption’ (e.g. in connection with disaster relief), the data highlights how attitudes to corruption are context‐dependent. Natural disasters constitute ‘special times’ with a …
Disasters and Political Unrest
A connection between disasters and political unrest has often been suggested, but only case studies/anecdotes have been offered as evidence. To test statistically for a disaster‐political unrest relationship, a causal model is developed that posits a direct and positive linkage between disaster severity and ensuing levels of political unrest. The model further specifies that increased levels of development, income equality, and regime repressiven…
Coping with Extreme Hazard Events
The field of thanatology has given extensive attention to death as an outcome of illness. A more comprehensive picture, however, would also encompass the hazards of natural and technological disasters. Deaths from both natural and technological disasters continue to increase in the United States, despite intensified government efforts to reverse this trend, and despite improved understanding of the cognitive processes of people who face either lo…
The Political Economy of Life‐safety
The life‐safety threat posed by earthquake‐vulnerable buildings is widely recognized. This paper outlines the long battle fought in the City of Los Angeles to enact an ordinance intended to abate the hazard. The author also offers a series of both necessary and sufficient factors explaining Los Angelesl ultimate success
Social Science and Natural Hazards
Economic Coercion in World Politics
Earlier studies of economic sanctions underestimated the role and importance of more subtle forms of coercion because they concentrated attention on highly public, formally legislated attempts at economic coercion in world politics, such as the cases of Italy in the 1930s and Rhodesia since 1965. The author agrees with Galtung, Knorr, and others that in highly public cases, sanctions will often fail in their avowed political purpose because they …
The Politics of Humanitarian Aid
Previous studies of U.S. foreign aid have firmly established that foreign policy and domestic considerations strongly influence allocations of military and economic development assistance. Uncharted, however, is the question of similar influences on U.S. humanitarian aid. Analyzing U.S. foreign disaster assistance data from 1964 through 1995, this paper concludes that foreign policy and domestic factors not only influence disaster assistance allo…
Economic Coercion in World Politics
Earlier studies of economic sanctions underestimated the role and importance of more subtle forms of coercion because they concentrated attention on highly public, formally legislated attempts at economic coercion in world politics, such as the cases of Italy in the 1930s and Rhodesia since 1965. The author agrees with Galtung, Knorr, and others that in highly public cases, sanctions will often fail in their avowed political purpose because they …
From Disaster Event to Political Crisis
Journal Article From Disaster Event to Political Crisis: A "5C+A" Framework for Analysis Get access Richard Stuart Olson, Richard Stuart Olson Florida International University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Vincent T. Gawronski Vincent T. Gawronski Birmingham-Southern College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 11, Issue 3, Au…
Disasters as Crisis Triggers for Critical Junctures? The 1976 Guatemala Case
This article focuses on the 1976 Guatemala earthquake disaster as a possible crisis trigger, in a relatively strict application of the critical juncture analytical approach. It expands to include the broader question of what conditions might cause disasters to trigger crises that open critical junctures for nation-states. The research concludes that the 1976 Guatemala disaster led to a high degree of community self-organizing and alliance-buildin…
Public Response to Disaster Response
A recent paper in this journal proposed that post-impact public evaluations of governmental disaster performance may be usefully understood and analyzed along six “5C+A” dimensions: capability, competence, compassion, correctness, credibility, and anticipation. Using post-disaster public opinion data from El Salvador in 2001 and Peru in 2007, we offer the first empirical tests of this 5C+A approach, finding that it cannot be disconfirmed at this …
Disasters and corruption
Disaster corruption is a vexing problem, damaging state legitimacy and exacerbating human suffering. Mexico has a history of both major disasters and persistently high levels of corruption. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2017 provided an opportunity to study change over time in expectations and tolerance of corruption in disaster relief. Twenty years earlier, Mexico City residents expected, on average, essentially three out of 10 hypothetical truc…
Normal’ versus ‘special’ time corruption
This essay examines the relationship between corruption and political stability, with particular emphasis on Mexico. Through careful analysis of public opinion surveys from 1997–1998, exploring the differential attitudes towards ‘normal time corruption’ and ‘special time corruption’ (e.g. in connection with disaster relief), the data highlights how attitudes to corruption are context‐dependent. Natural disasters constitute ‘special times’ with a …
Establishing public accountability, speaking truth to power and inducing political will for disaster risk reduction
The problem is that disaster risk reduction (DRR) is still more a zone of political darkness than of light. Therefore, the purpose of our contribution to this theme issue is to illuminate at least some of that zone of political darkness and to suggest a more proactive, but for many career professionals a personally problematic, way forward for DRR. The career problematic derives from the fact that the way forward would involve moving from applaud…
Economic Coercion in World Politics
Earlier studies of economic sanctions underestimated the role and importance of more subtle forms of coercion because they concentrated attention on highly public, formally legislated attempts at economic coercion in world politics, such as the cases of Italy in the 1930s and Rhodesia since 1965. The author agrees with Galtung, Knorr, and others that in highly public cases, sanctions will often fail in their avowed political purpose because they …
Social Science and Natural Hazards
The Political Economy of Life‐safety
The life‐safety threat posed by earthquake‐vulnerable buildings is widely recognized. This paper outlines the long battle fought in the City of Los Angeles to enact an ordinance intended to abate the hazard. The author also offers a series of both necessary and sufficient factors explaining Los Angelesl ultimate success
Coping with Extreme Hazard Events
The field of thanatology has given extensive attention to death as an outcome of illness. A more comprehensive picture, however, would also encompass the hazards of natural and technological disasters. Deaths from both natural and technological disasters continue to increase in the United States, despite intensified government efforts to reverse this trend, and despite improved understanding of the cognitive processes of people who face either lo…
Disasters and Political Unrest
A connection between disasters and political unrest has often been suggested, but only case studies/anecdotes have been offered as evidence. To test statistically for a disaster‐political unrest relationship, a causal model is developed that posits a direct and positive linkage between disaster severity and ensuing levels of political unrest. The model further specifies that increased levels of development, income equality, and regime repressiven…
Toward a Politics of Disaster
Offering exemplars from around the world, including China, Mexico, Nicaragua, and California, this paper argues that disasters must be understood and analyzed more deeply and more often as explicitly political events. The paper also argues that because politics is the “authoritative allocation of values, “ the politics-disaster nexus revolves around the allocation of several important values: life safety in the pre-event period, survival in the e…
Normal’ versus ‘special’ time corruption
This essay examines the relationship between corruption and political stability, with particular emphasis on Mexico. Through careful analysis of public opinion surveys from 1997–1998, exploring the differential attitudes towards ‘normal time corruption’ and ‘special time corruption’ (e.g. in connection with disaster relief), the data highlights how attitudes to corruption are context‐dependent. Natural disasters constitute ‘special times’ with a …
The Politics of Humanitarian Aid
Previous studies of U.S. foreign aid have firmly established that foreign policy and domestic considerations strongly influence allocations of military and economic development assistance. Uncharted, however, is the question of similar influences on U.S. humanitarian aid. Analyzing U.S. foreign disaster assistance data from 1964 through 1995, this paper concludes that foreign policy and domestic factors not only influence disaster assistance allo…
From Disaster Event to Political Crisis
Journal Article From Disaster Event to Political Crisis: A "5C+A" Framework for Analysis Get access Richard Stuart Olson, Richard Stuart Olson Florida International University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Vincent T. Gawronski Vincent T. Gawronski Birmingham-Southern College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 11, Issue 3, Au…
Establishing public accountability, speaking truth to power and inducing political will for disaster risk reduction
The problem is that disaster risk reduction (DRR) is still more a zone of political darkness than of light. Therefore, the purpose of our contribution to this theme issue is to illuminate at least some of that zone of political darkness and to suggest a more proactive, but for many career professionals a personally problematic, way forward for DRR. The career problematic derives from the fact that the way forward would involve moving from applaud…
Public Response to Disaster Response
A recent paper in this journal proposed that post-impact public evaluations of governmental disaster performance may be usefully understood and analyzed along six “5C+A” dimensions: capability, competence, compassion, correctness, credibility, and anticipation. Using post-disaster public opinion data from El Salvador in 2001 and Peru in 2007, we offer the first empirical tests of this 5C+A approach, finding that it cannot be disconfirmed at this …
Disasters as Crisis Triggers for Critical Junctures? The 1976 Guatemala Case
This article focuses on the 1976 Guatemala earthquake disaster as a possible crisis trigger, in a relatively strict application of the critical juncture analytical approach. It expands to include the broader question of what conditions might cause disasters to trigger crises that open critical junctures for nation-states. The research concludes that the 1976 Guatemala disaster led to a high degree of community self-organizing and alliance-buildin…
From Disaster Risk Reduction to Policy Studies
Major conceptual and empirical advances over the past three decades have clarified how natural hazard events interact with community and human exposures and vulnerabilities to create risks that then become emergencies, disasters, or in the worst combinations, catastrophes. However, corresponding disaster risk reduction (DRR) knowledge and technology exist to significantly lessen the impacts of hazard events, but in many countries, including the U…
Disasters and corruption
Disaster corruption is a vexing problem, damaging state legitimacy and exacerbating human suffering. Mexico has a history of both major disasters and persistently high levels of corruption. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2017 provided an opportunity to study change over time in expectations and tolerance of corruption in disaster relief. Twenty years earlier, Mexico City residents expected, on average, essentially three out of 10 hypothetical truc…
Public Support for Disaster Risk Reduction
Studies in public policy have suggested that disasters can potentially serve as “focusing events”, catalyzing significant changes to disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies and practices. How and why this effect does (or does not) ensue, and for how long, are less well understood. This article tests hypotheses about the nature and duration of the impact of a major hazard event on public support for DRR policies and their implementation. It does so…
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