The article discusses the perceptions of citizens related to roles of local, state, and national government agencies in the relief effort and disaster response policy. Topics discussed include confusion during the relief operations, emergency response and problems for the long-term recovery. It also discusses the government's responsibility for the entire disaster response system.
The article explores the religious sources of welfare policy attitudes. It states that conservative denomination and religious commitment appear to have a conservative effect on welfare attitudes specifically biblical literalism. It further states that age group do not effect the welfare policy attitudes in general population but young age group has some liberalizing effect on this attitude.