Polycentricity in Disaster Relief
Christopher Coyne
Associate Director, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and EconomicsJayme Lemke
Senior Fellow, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
A key aspect of The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery is the comparison of disaster relief providers at different levels—federal government, local governments, private individuals, and private organizations. This multi-level analysis provides the opportunity for a discussion of polycentricity in disaster relief. Polycentric orders are those in which decision-making power is dispersed across multiple organizations, each of which is able to exercise autonomy within a shared rule of law. This paper explores some of the implications of polycentricity in disaster relief.
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Citation: Chicago Style.
Coyne, Christopher and Jayme Lemke. "Polycentricity in Disaster Relief," Studies in Emergent Order, 4 (2011): 40-57.
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