Stunted Growth: Institutional Challenges to the Department of Homeland Security's Maturation

Scholars have proposed numerous explanations as to why the Department of Homeland Security has struggled to mature as an organization and effectively conduct its core mission. We propose an alternative viewpoint that the department lacks key legal authorities and necessitates key organizational transfer in order to rationalize its portfolio. We examine these points through review of legal authorities in select mission areas and through a resource analysis of activities conducted throughout the federal government to execute the homeland security mission. The analysis leads to specific recommendations for transfers and authorities and suggestions as to how the political environment might coalesce around engendering these changes.

Name thesis:degree_name

MA

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy

Year dc:date.available

2013

Author dc:creator

• Fronczak, Dana James

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lewis Irwin
• Kent Moors
• Charles Hanna

• DHS
• Homeland Security
• Management

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/556

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-1572