Jerome S Legge
Biographic Data
| ID | 174160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerome S Legge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerome S |
| FAMILY NAME | Legge |
| SIGNATURE | LEGGE J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 172 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Collaboration, Intelligence, and the Holocaust: Ferdinand Ďurčanský, Slovak Nationalism, and the Gehlen Organization
Resisting a War Crimes Trial: The Malmedy Massacre, the German Churches, and the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps
War crimes trials roused considerable resistance in Germany. Here the author analyzes opposition to the Malmédy Trial, conducted at Dachau in 1946, citing documents made available under the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act—in particular those of Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Munich Johannes Neuhäusler and regional Protestant bishop Theophil Wurm of Württemberg. These clergymen helped reduce sentences and obtain clemency for perpetrators. …
Prosecuting Nazi Collaborators and Terrorists: Eli Rosenbaum and Managing the Office of Special Investigations
This Administrative Profile charts the remarkable career of Eli Rosenbaum, currently the director of human rights enforcement strategy and policy in the Human Rights and Special Prosecution Section of the Criminal Division in the United States Department of Justice. Until very recently he served as the director of the DOJ’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI)that was recently merged into Human Rights and Special Prosecutions. He held the OSI D…
Public Opinion, Risk Assessment, and Biotechnology: Lessons from Attitudes toward Genetically Modified Foods in the European Union
Proponents of biotechnology argue that citizens' opposition to innovations such as genetically modified (GM) foods is rooted in emotionalism, media and nongovernmental organizations' distortions of good science, and scientific ignorance. Critics charge that this “risk management discursive” is too reductionist, exaggerates scientific capacity, inappropriately privileges scientific values over social and political values, and inaccurately captures…
The Karl Linnas Deportation Case, the Office of Special Investigations, and American Ethnic Politics
The deportation case against Karl Linnas, an Estonian war criminal who entered the United States in 1951 through the Displaced Persons Act, highlighted tensions between American politics and the American legal system. Linnas became a citizen in 1960, but in 1962 the USSR tried him in absentia and sentenced him to death for crimes he committed at the Tartu concentration camp. In 1981 the US Department of Justice's new Office of Special Investigati…
Self‐Interest, Ideological/Symbolic Politics, and Citizen Characteristics: A Cross‐National Analysis of Support for Privatization
In this essay, the authors explore attitudes toward government privatization of electric utilities across two sets of nations: developed market economies (DMEs) and transition economies (TEs). They utilize generalized hierarchical linear model to analyze individual attitudes nested within these two groups of polities and discover a wide gap between the DME and TE nations in terms of preferences for privatization, with attitudes in DME nations bei…
Wicked Problems,” Public Policy, and Administrative Theory: Lessons From the GM Food Regulatory Arena
As societies worldwide struggle to address what policy analysts call “wicked problems” such as world hunger, malnutrition, and ecological sustainability, analysts from a variety of perspectives have questioned the administrative state’s abilities to deal with them. Ascendant since the early 1990s as a prescription for remedying these shortcomings is a market, technocratic, and non-deliberative theory of administration that some have called “neo-m…
Public Opinion, Risk Perceptions, and Genetically Modified Food Regulatory Policy: Reassessing the Calculus of Dissent among European Citizens
The underlying assumption of multinational corporations and US government campaigns to inform citizens worldwide of the advantages of genetically modified (GM) foods has been straightforward: if citizens better understand GM science and benefits, they will become less wary of GM foods. To test the assumptions of proponents regarding science-based information campaigns, we use heteroskedastic probit analysis to analyze responses to the 1999 Euroba…
Politics, Public Opinion, and Privatization in France: Assessing the Calculus of Consent for Market Reforms
Despite the normative, political, and instrumental importance of privatizing state-owned enterprises worldwide, practitioners and researchers know little empirically about how different types of citizens feel about these efforts, how they arrive at these judgments, and how enduring these attitudes are likely to be. Using citizen attitudes toward privatization culled from the 1995 French National Election Study, this article offers practitioners a…
America, Its Jews, and the Rise of Nazism
Book Review| October 01 2001 America, Its Jews, and the Rise of Nazism America, Its Jews, and the Rise of Nazism, Gulie Ne’eman Arad. Jerome S. Legge, Jr. Jerome S. Legge, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 21 (1): 151–153. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502802 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jerome S. Legge; America,…
U.S. Local Government Managers and the Complexity of Responsibility and Accountability in Democratic Governance
This study examines accountability and responsibility as they apply to local government managers in the United States. The Friedrich-Finer debate defined contrasting views of accountability and responsibility, with Finer advancing elected officials and Friedrich advancing the profession and public sentiment for establishing responsibility and accountability for nonelected officials. More recent scholars also include the courts, media, and more pr…
Examining the concept of gender role ideology: Women in traditional jewish worship
Exploring the Symbolic Racism Thesis: The German Sense of Responsibility for the Jews
The "symbolic racism" thesis now prominent in discussions of American politics holds that racism is expressed through a combination of negative racial affect and traditional values. This note provides a comparative perspective on these debates by investigating the nature of German anti-Semitism through a Linear Structural Relations (LISREL) analysis of recent survey data. This reveals that among Germans a base anti-Semitic affect is separate from…
People, Profits, and Service Delivery: Lessons form the Privatization of British Telecom
Theory: Gradual denationalization of state-owned-enterprises (SOEs) is premised on the theory that increasing levels of market exposure, regulation, and public reporting will improve both the market and social values that democracies cherish. Similar theories inform market-based approaches to public service delivery more generally. Hypotheses: As market exposure increases, rates of productivity, capitalization, and profitability will increase sig…
Jews, the Israel lobby, and multiculturalism
Economics, Racism, and Attitudes toward Immigration in the New Germany
Economics, Racism, and Attitudes toward Immigration in the New Germany
A number of different theories have been advanced to explain support for policies which may benefit minority groups. This paper utilizes eco nomic-self interest, traditional racism, and conservative values to explore attitudes of German citizens toward granting political asylum and resi dency to immigrants. The linear structural relations (LISREL) analysis on a 1991 sample of German citizens suggests that the structure of attitudes is different d…
Antiforeign Sentiment in Germany: Power Theory versus Symbolic Explanations of Prejudice
Two theories are most frequently advanced to explain relationships between majority and minority groups: power theory and the symbolic theory of prejudice. A measure of "economic satisfaction" is used to tap the power threat of foreigners in Germany. It is tested against a measure of "German identity" which is a more symbolic measure of prejudice. Overall, a linear structural relations analysis demonstrates that although the power variable does p…
An Economic Theory of Antisemitism? Exploring Attitudes in the New German State
One of the most classical stereotypes of Jews is that they have a dispropor tionate influence in economic matters. As a consequence, they are often affixed with undeserved blame by those experiencing economic difficul ties. Utilizing recent data gathered in Germany, this paper tests an eco nomic explanation of antisemitism. A Linear Structural Relations (LISREL) analysis finds little support for an economic explanation of antisemitism. The especi…
Understanding American judaism: "Revisiting the concept of "social justice
The persistence of ethnic voting: African americans and jews in the 1989 New York mayoral campaign
Policy Design, Social Regulation, and Theory Building: Lessons from the Traffic Safety Policy Arena
Despite the interest of political scientists in social regulatory policy implementation, only recently has the policy design movement begun classifying and assessing the comparative advantage of various policy "tools" or implements. This study seeks to advance understanding of social regulatory policy tools by assessing their potential as a vehicle for developing midrange theories of policy design. Analysis of Michigan traffic safety data indicat…
Economics
Need, Institutional Arrangements, and Economic Development Policy
Journal Article Need, Institutional Arrangements, and Economic Development Policy Get access Richard Feiock, Richard Feiock Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gregory Cable, Gregory Cable Seton Hall University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jerome S. Legge, Jr. Jerome S. Legge, Jr. Seton Hall University Search for other works by this author on…
Policy Alternatives and Traffic Safety: Mandatory Seat Belts and Drunk Driving Reform in California
Government has taken a variety of approaches to achieve its policy objectives. One strategy which has been utilized across a variety of issue areas is deterrence. Specifically, government attempts to induce desirable behavior by raising the certainty, swiftness and/or severity of penalties on citizens. As a policy tool the concept of deterrence has been utilized with uneven success in juvenile and adult corrections (Erickson, Stafford, and Gallih…
U.S. Local Government Managers and the Complexity of Responsibility and Accountability in Democratic Governance
This study examines accountability and responsibility as they apply to local government managers in the United States. The Friedrich-Finer debate defined contrasting views of accountability and responsibility, with Finer advancing elected officials and Friedrich advancing the profession and public sentiment for establishing responsibility and accountability for nonelected officials. More recent scholars also include the courts, media, and more pr…
Public Opinion, Risk Perceptions, and Genetically Modified Food Regulatory Policy: Reassessing the Calculus of Dissent among European Citizens
The underlying assumption of multinational corporations and US government campaigns to inform citizens worldwide of the advantages of genetically modified (GM) foods has been straightforward: if citizens better understand GM science and benefits, they will become less wary of GM foods. To test the assumptions of proponents regarding science-based information campaigns, we use heteroskedastic probit analysis to analyze responses to the 1999 Euroba…
Economics, Racism, and Attitudes toward Immigration in the New Germany
A number of different theories have been advanced to explain support for policies which may benefit minority groups. This paper utilizes eco nomic-self interest, traditional racism, and conservative values to explore attitudes of German citizens toward granting political asylum and resi dency to immigrants. The linear structural relations (LISREL) analysis on a 1991 sample of German citizens suggests that the structure of attitudes is different d…
Wicked Problems,” Public Policy, and Administrative Theory: Lessons From the GM Food Regulatory Arena
As societies worldwide struggle to address what policy analysts call “wicked problems” such as world hunger, malnutrition, and ecological sustainability, analysts from a variety of perspectives have questioned the administrative state’s abilities to deal with them. Ascendant since the early 1990s as a prescription for remedying these shortcomings is a market, technocratic, and non-deliberative theory of administration that some have called “neo-m…
People, Profits, and Service Delivery: Lessons form the Privatization of British Telecom
Theory: Gradual denationalization of state-owned-enterprises (SOEs) is premised on the theory that increasing levels of market exposure, regulation, and public reporting will improve both the market and social values that democracies cherish. Similar theories inform market-based approaches to public service delivery more generally. Hypotheses: As market exposure increases, rates of productivity, capitalization, and profitability will increase sig…
The Determinants of Attitudes toward Abortion in the American Electorate
IN RECENT YEARS, the amount of discussion regarding abortion as a public policy issue has increased. The Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade judgment of 1973 ruled that the decision to have an abortion was solely a matter between a woman and her physician with some state regulation permissible after the first trimester of pregnancy (Hansen 1980). Despite the Court ruling, public opinion has remained divided. Many within what could be termed the womens' or…
Public Opinion, Risk Assessment, and Biotechnology: Lessons from Attitudes toward Genetically Modified Foods in the European Union
Proponents of biotechnology argue that citizens' opposition to innovations such as genetically modified (GM) foods is rooted in emotionalism, media and nongovernmental organizations' distortions of good science, and scientific ignorance. Critics charge that this “risk management discursive” is too reductionist, exaggerates scientific capacity, inappropriately privileges scientific values over social and political values, and inaccurately captures…
Antiforeign Sentiment in Germany: Power Theory versus Symbolic Explanations of Prejudice
Two theories are most frequently advanced to explain relationships between majority and minority groups: power theory and the symbolic theory of prejudice. A measure of "economic satisfaction" is used to tap the power threat of foreigners in Germany. It is tested against a measure of "German identity" which is a more symbolic measure of prejudice. Overall, a linear structural relations analysis demonstrates that although the power variable does p…
Measuring Productivity in U. S. Public Administration and Public Affairs Programs 1981-1985
This article replicates the 1981 study of Morgan and colleagues and focuses on the productivity of public affairs and administration programs in the United States from 1981 to 1985. While many of the highest-ranked programs retain their 1970-1980 positions, the article notes a dramatic improvement on the part of other institutions. In addition to examining overall productivity, the number of published articles is considered as a ratio to the numb…
Economic Conditions and Individual Vote in the Federal Republic of Germany
Analyses of the effects of economic perceptions on voting behavior have been mostly confined to the United States. This study utilizes data gathered from the 1972, 1976, and 1980 German national elections in order to investigate the effects of the economy on the vote. The authors find support for the hypothesis that economic voting in the Federal Republic is more accurately described in terms of a "sociotropic" or "national assessments" explanati…
Who's Who in Australia
Policy Design, Social Regulation, and Theory Building: Lessons from the Traffic Safety Policy Arena
Despite the interest of political scientists in social regulatory policy implementation, only recently has the policy design movement begun classifying and assessing the comparative advantage of various policy "tools" or implements. This study seeks to advance understanding of social regulatory policy tools by assessing their potential as a vehicle for developing midrange theories of policy design. Analysis of Michigan traffic safety data indicat…
An Economic Theory of Antisemitism? Exploring Attitudes in the New German State
One of the most classical stereotypes of Jews is that they have a dispropor tionate influence in economic matters. As a consequence, they are often affixed with undeserved blame by those experiencing economic difficul ties. Utilizing recent data gathered in Germany, this paper tests an eco nomic explanation of antisemitism. A Linear Structural Relations (LISREL) analysis finds little support for an economic explanation of antisemitism. The especi…
Need, Institutional Arrangements, and Economic Development Policy
Journal Article Need, Institutional Arrangements, and Economic Development Policy Get access Richard Feiock, Richard Feiock Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gregory Cable, Gregory Cable Seton Hall University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jerome S. Legge, Jr. Jerome S. Legge, Jr. Seton Hall University Search for other works by this author on…
Reforming Public Safety: An Evaluation of the 1983 British Seat Belt Law
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of the 1983 British seat belt law in England and Wales. The methodology employed is interrupted time series analysis.In terms of a lasting impact, the seat belt legislation for automobiles compares favorably with other interventions designed to decrease deaths and injuries on the road, such as legislation to control drinking and driving. Typically, such legislation is effective only in the short …
Abortion as a Policy Issue: Attitudes of the Mass Public
Most literature dealing with the attitudes of the mass public toward abortion addresses the question in terms of the individual woman seeking termination. This study attempts to explain attitudes when abortion is framed as a public policy question. Three dependent variables are investigated. These are the issues of public funding, when human life begins, and the Human Life Amendment. This study suggests that while religion and religiosity are sti…
Abortion as a policy issue: Attitudes of the mass public
Can Government Regulate Fertility? An Assessment of Pronatalist Policy in Eastern Europe
The authoritarian governments in Eastern Europe have played an active role in the fertility regulation of their citizenry. This article examines government attempts to encourage population growth in Eastern Europe with particular attention given to Romania Hungary and the German Democratic Republic. Governments attempting to influence reproductive behavior can utilize 3 types of policies--the moral-propagandistic the economic and the legal-admini…
Predictors of Abortion Attitudes in the Federal Republic of Germany
This article utilizes demographic, political and religious variables to predict attitudes toward abortion in the German Federal Republic. Discriminant analysis reveals that religious variables are the strongest predictors of attitudes toward abortion. Interestingly, it is not denomination but rather religiosity--measured by church attendance and the degree to which individuals feel the churches should be involved in politics--that best predicts a…
The Karl Linnas Deportation Case, the Office of Special Investigations, and American Ethnic Politics
The deportation case against Karl Linnas, an Estonian war criminal who entered the United States in 1951 through the Displaced Persons Act, highlighted tensions between American politics and the American legal system. Linnas became a citizen in 1960, but in 1962 the USSR tried him in absentia and sentenced him to death for crimes he committed at the Tartu concentration camp. In 1981 the US Department of Justice's new Office of Special Investigati…
Understanding American judaism: "Revisiting the concept of "social justice
Policy Alternatives and Traffic Safety: Mandatory Seat Belts and Drunk Driving Reform in California
Government has taken a variety of approaches to achieve its policy objectives. One strategy which has been utilized across a variety of issue areas is deterrence. Specifically, government attempts to induce desirable behavior by raising the certainty, swiftness and/or severity of penalties on citizens. As a policy tool the concept of deterrence has been utilized with uneven success in juvenile and adult corrections (Erickson, Stafford, and Gallih…
The Unintended Consequences of Policy Change: The Effect of a Restrictive Abortion Policy
This article utilizes a multiple time series design to investigate the impact that restrictive abortion laws have had on maternal deaths in Romania. That society had an initially "liberal" law but it was reversed by a 1966 decree that greatly limited the circumstances under which a woman may have an abortion. The research design combined with data collected from the World Health Organization suggest that it is unlikely that a post-1966 increase i…
The Potted Biography Industry: Who Has the Unionists
Who's Who in Australia
Targeting Funds for Economic Development in Rural Georgia: The Experience of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs
of government, neither assuming government can do everything nor, at the other extreme, that it is capable of doing nothing. As the public begins to adopt more balanced and realistic expectations about the pace at which we can accomplish the properly ambitious goals we have set for our society, we must use every tool at our command-including evaluation -to meet those expectations and to show that we are doing so. Only when the demonstrable effect…
Publicity” as a Problem in the Internal Validity of Time Series Quasi‐experiments
Scholars who work with time series quasi‐experiments have identified “publicity” as a problem in the interpretation of such research designs. The present study utilizes three examples of the role of publicity in three social interventions: the Romanian abortion restriction of 1966; the British breathalyzer crackdown; and, the 1978 Georgia Status Offender Act. The authors conclude that publicity is most likely to be a problem in internal validity …
The Unintended Consequences of Policy Change: The Effect of a Restrictive Abortion Policy
This article utilizes a multiple time series design to investigate the impact that restrictive abortion laws have had on maternal deaths in Romania. That society had an initially "liberal" law but it was reversed by a 1966 decree that greatly limited the circumstances under which a woman may have an abortion. The research design combined with data collected from the World Health Organization suggest that it is unlikely that a post-1966 increase i…
Predictors of Abortion Attitudes in the Federal Republic of Germany
This article utilizes demographic, political and religious variables to predict attitudes toward abortion in the German Federal Republic. Discriminant analysis reveals that religious variables are the strongest predictors of attitudes toward abortion. Interestingly, it is not denomination but rather religiosity--measured by church attendance and the degree to which individuals feel the churches should be involved in politics--that best predicts a…
The Determinants of Attitudes toward Abortion in the American Electorate
IN RECENT YEARS, the amount of discussion regarding abortion as a public policy issue has increased. The Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade judgment of 1973 ruled that the decision to have an abortion was solely a matter between a woman and her physician with some state regulation permissible after the first trimester of pregnancy (Hansen 1980). Despite the Court ruling, public opinion has remained divided. Many within what could be termed the womens' or…
Economic Conditions and Individual Vote in the Federal Republic of Germany
Analyses of the effects of economic perceptions on voting behavior have been mostly confined to the United States. This study utilizes data gathered from the 1972, 1976, and 1980 German national elections in order to investigate the effects of the economy on the vote. The authors find support for the hypothesis that economic voting in the Federal Republic is more accurately described in terms of a "sociotropic" or "national assessments" explanati…
Can Government Regulate Fertility? An Assessment of Pronatalist Policy in Eastern Europe
The authoritarian governments in Eastern Europe have played an active role in the fertility regulation of their citizenry. This article examines government attempts to encourage population growth in Eastern Europe with particular attention given to Romania Hungary and the German Democratic Republic. Governments attempting to influence reproductive behavior can utilize 3 types of policies--the moral-propagandistic the economic and the legal-admini…
Can Government Regulate Fertility? An Assessment of Pronatalist Policy in Eastern Europe
Jerome S. Legge, Jr., John R. Alford, Can Government Regulate Fertility? An Assessment of Pronatalist Policy in Eastern Europe, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Dec., 1986), pp. 709-728
Abortion as a Policy Issue: Attitudes of the Mass Public
Most literature dealing with the attitudes of the mass public toward abortion addresses the question in terms of the individual woman seeking termination. This study attempts to explain attitudes when abortion is framed as a public policy question. Three dependent variables are investigated. These are the issues of public funding, when human life begins, and the Human Life Amendment. This study suggests that while religion and religiosity are sti…
Measuring Productivity in U. S. Public Administration and Public Affairs Programs 1981-1985
This article replicates the 1981 study of Morgan and colleagues and focuses on the productivity of public affairs and administration programs in the United States from 1981 to 1985. While many of the highest-ranked programs retain their 1970-1980 positions, the article notes a dramatic improvement on the part of other institutions. In addition to examining overall productivity, the number of published articles is considered as a ratio to the numb…
Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine
Abortion as a policy issue: Attitudes of the mass public
Reforming Public Safety: An Evaluation of the 1983 British Seat Belt Law
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of the 1983 British seat belt law in England and Wales. The methodology employed is interrupted time series analysis.In terms of a lasting impact, the seat belt legislation for automobiles compares favorably with other interventions designed to decrease deaths and injuries on the road, such as legislation to control drinking and driving. Typically, such legislation is effective only in the short …
Policy Alternatives and Traffic Safety: Mandatory Seat Belts and Drunk Driving Reform in California
Government has taken a variety of approaches to achieve its policy objectives. One strategy which has been utilized across a variety of issue areas is deterrence. Specifically, government attempts to induce desirable behavior by raising the certainty, swiftness and/or severity of penalties on citizens. As a policy tool the concept of deterrence has been utilized with uneven success in juvenile and adult corrections (Erickson, Stafford, and Gallih…
Economics
Need, Institutional Arrangements, and Economic Development Policy
Journal Article Need, Institutional Arrangements, and Economic Development Policy Get access Richard Feiock, Richard Feiock Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gregory Cable, Gregory Cable Seton Hall University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jerome S. Legge, Jr. Jerome S. Legge, Jr. Seton Hall University Search for other works by this author on…
The persistence of ethnic voting: African americans and jews in the 1989 New York mayoral campaign
Policy Design, Social Regulation, and Theory Building: Lessons from the Traffic Safety Policy Arena
Despite the interest of political scientists in social regulatory policy implementation, only recently has the policy design movement begun classifying and assessing the comparative advantage of various policy "tools" or implements. This study seeks to advance understanding of social regulatory policy tools by assessing their potential as a vehicle for developing midrange theories of policy design. Analysis of Michigan traffic safety data indicat…
Understanding American judaism: "Revisiting the concept of "social justice
Antiforeign Sentiment in Germany: Power Theory versus Symbolic Explanations of Prejudice
Two theories are most frequently advanced to explain relationships between majority and minority groups: power theory and the symbolic theory of prejudice. A measure of "economic satisfaction" is used to tap the power threat of foreigners in Germany. It is tested against a measure of "German identity" which is a more symbolic measure of prejudice. Overall, a linear structural relations analysis demonstrates that although the power variable does p…
An Economic Theory of Antisemitism? Exploring Attitudes in the New German State
One of the most classical stereotypes of Jews is that they have a dispropor tionate influence in economic matters. As a consequence, they are often affixed with undeserved blame by those experiencing economic difficul ties. Utilizing recent data gathered in Germany, this paper tests an eco nomic explanation of antisemitism. A Linear Structural Relations (LISREL) analysis finds little support for an economic explanation of antisemitism. The especi…
Jews, the Israel lobby, and multiculturalism
Economics, Racism, and Attitudes toward Immigration in the New Germany
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