Public Policy Influences Government Stakeholders: Government Stakeholders Influences Public Policy
James Dykes Williams
University: ORG-807
January 22, 2014
Public Policy Influences Government Stakeholders: Government Stakeholders Influences Public Policy
The American people expect that government and government-reliant organizations will protect their interests when there are imminent threats to the well-being of citizens and humanity. In the process of sustaining trust from the general public, stakeholders in government are elected by the people to protect citizen’s interests. An agency that functions in supportive roles, such as, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) have professional rescue and lifesaving …show more content…
Marty Bahamonde an (FEMA) agent, a component of Homeland Security, was sent to evaluate the problem. Bahamonde urgently e-mailed Michael Brown, the FEMA director aides a day after, on August 28th to alert the agency that the first levee had broken before the disaster became catastrophic (Rynes et al., 2005).
Government kept individuals, businesses, and charities from responding as quickly as they wanted. And at the deepest level, government so destroyed wealth and self-reliance in the people of New Orleans that they were unable to fend for themselves in a crisis.(Boaz, 2005). From an academic perspectives history has a way of repeating itself as to the 9/11 and the Hurricane Katrina disasters. There are questions that may be asked; why do the government not listen to the sole source letter expert, the social scientist to ward off drastic changes in societal concerns that impact public policy concerns? Why do the government stakeholder have to make significant changes when forced to satisfy the general public stakeholder to make government look good in the eyes of the American people? According Daniel Henniger, paraphrased,” academia and the experienced social scientists were mutual partners in past congressional hearings not the present day emotional media or talk shows in which they are limited with research data and analyses” (Rynes et al., 2005 ). If public policy influences government stakeholders in the matter to