Derthick, Martha

Derthick, Martha. 2007. Where Federalism Didn’t Fail. Public Administration Review Vol. 67, no. 1: 36-47. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2007.00811.x/pdf (accessed 26 October 2011).

This document examines the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, specifically instances of the government’s successes.  While the response to Katrina is usually portrayed as a failure, the author argues that there were many successes and that a foundation for intergovernmental cooperation was laid.