Despite a general lack of political knowledge among the public, research demonstrates that individuals intuitively know which level of government should be, and sometimes is, responsible for policy problems. In this article, we look at public federalism preferences in the context of disaster management, particularly for managing the risks associated with three different types of hazards—specifically global warming, earthquakes, and wildfires—and examine if their preferences are aligned with the division of responsibility in disaster management. Using survey data from Oklahoma, we find that individuals appropriately match their preferences to the intergovernmental nature of disaster federalism in the United States. Additionally, knowing the causes of these hazards is strongly associated with a preference for the appropriate, to disaster scope and scale, level of government. Finally, using seemingly unrelated regression techniques, we find that many, but not all, relationships are hazard general while some are hazard specific.

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灾害联邦制的公众偏好：比较各级政府和灾害的公共风险管理偏好

尽管公众普遍缺乏政治知识，但研究表明，个人直觉地知道哪个级别的政府应该，有时应该对政策问题负责。在本文中，我们研究了灾害管理背景下的公共联邦制偏好，特别是管理与三种不同类型灾害相关的风险——特别是全球变暖、地震和野火——并检查他们的偏好是否与灾害管理责任。使用俄克拉荷马州的调查数据，我们发现个人将他们的偏好与美国灾难联邦制的政府间性质相匹配。此外，了解这些危害的原因与选择适当的、以灾害范围和规模、政府级别。最后，使用看似无关的回归技术，我们发现许多（但不是全部）关系是一般的危险，而有些是特定的危险。