About the Author

David K. Twigg is director at the Jack D. Gordon Institute of Public Policy and Citizenship Studies at Florida International University.

Reviews

"[A] careful, nuanced approach in examining the effects of a hurricane on a region's electoral politics at all levels of government, including localities sometimes neglected by American political science but central to disaster politics."--Political Science Quarterly

"Twigg has thoroughly researched. . . . [and] assembled an impressive array of facts by pouring through scholarly documents, books, and back issues of magazines."--Florida Historical Quarterly