Volume 32, Issue 1 (2020) Social Traps and Social Trust: Institutional Transformations in an American City following a Natural Disaster
The lessons of Katrina are the subject of this special issue. The eighteen articles were assembled and overseen by Michael Cowan, the guest editor. Michael founded Common Good, a civil society action network, after Hurricane Katrina. He is Senior Fellow in the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict and Research Affiliate in the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion, both in the University of Oxford. He is also a Visiting Research Associate in the Irish School of Ecumenics in Trinity College Dublin.Front Matter
Introduction
Editor’s Note
Padraig O’Malley
Special Issue Editor’s Introduction: Practical Wisdom and Institutional Transformation in an Urban Disaster
Michael A. Cowan
Articles
Social Traps and Social Trust in a Devastated Urban Community
Michael A. Cowan
Legal Origins and Evolution of Local Ethics Reform in New Orleans
David A. Marcello
Transparency and Efficiency in Government Operations: New Orleans Civil Service Reform
Kevin Wm. Wildes S.J.
The Strange Case of the Seven Assessors
Janet Howard and Shaun Rafferty
Recreation Reform: Leveling the Playing Field in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Arnie Fielkow and Mithun B. Kamath
Reinventing the New Orleans Public Education System
David Osborne
The New Orleans Criminal Legal System: A Flowing River
William C. Snowden
Slaying Two Sacred Cows: One Group’s Part in Helping New Orleans Reform, Rebuild, and Renew
Ruthie Frierson
Across Racial Lines: Three Accounts of Transforming Urban Institutions after a Natural Disaster
James Carter, Nolan Rollins, and Gregory Rusovich
The New New Orleans
Gregory Rusovich
Katrina and the Philanthropic Landscape in New Orleans
Ludovico Feoli
The Nutria that Roared: How Building Coalitions Can Empower the Small to Drive Great Change
Michael Hecht
How Data Became Part of New Orleans’ DNA during the Katrina Recovery
Lamar Gardere, Allison Plyer, and Denice Ross
Back Matter
Special Editor’s Closing Comments
Michael A. Cowan
Editors
- Editor
- Padraig O'Malley
- Managing Editor
- Nancy Riordan
- Copy Editor
- Debby Smith