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Enhancing Community Safety and Security Through Understanding Interagency Collaboration in Cyber-Terrorism Exercises

University of Houston-Victoria, solanskys{at}uhv.edu

Tammy E. Beck

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The threat of terrorism is at the forefront of security issues in the society. Terrorism must be dealt with through collaboration of multiple types and levels of agencies. Public sector interagency collaboration is explored through collective mind and beliefs of collaboration necessity in terrorism situations. It is found that the presence of a collective mind increases the likelihood that public sector representatives recognize and form beliefs that collaboration is necessary. It is also found that aggregates of representatives were more likely to actually collaborate with one another in addressing these cyber-terrorism threats when more shared the belief of collaboration necessity.

Key Words: beliefs • collective mind • cyber-terrorism • interagency collaboration

Administration & Society, Vol. 40, No. 8, 852-875 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0095399708326345


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