Richard J Butler

Biographic Data

ID3610152
NAMERichard J Butler
GIVEN NAMESRichard J
FAMILY NAMEButler
SIGNATUREBUTLER R J
AFFILIATIONSBrigham Young University
ORCID0000-0003-0555-4945
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS87
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6

  • Changing Practices of Tourism Stakeholders in Covid-19 Affected Destinations

    Erdinç Çakmak, Rami K Isaac et al.ARTICLETourism Culture & Communication2025

    This book employs epistemological, methodological and discursive approaches to explore the practices of tourism stakeholders in Covid-19 affected destinations and to understand and explain their everyday real-time doings and sayings. It discusses the changing practices of tourists and stakeholders at both micro and meso levels and provides a range of contexts and destination case studies offering insights into supply and demand. The issues examin…

  • Isaiah’s Structure from Random Forest Regression Analysis

    Open AccessRichard J ButlerARTICLEAsian Culture and History2023

    This is the first paper to analyze the tripartite linguistic structure of Isaiah using Random Forest Regression, a supervised machine learning statistical approach. By predicting the occurrences of ‘judgment’ and ‘hope’ verses, we examine the threefold structure of Isaiah (section 1--chapters 1-39; section 2--chapters 40-55; and section 3--chapters 56-66) for differences in expression within and between each section. We find more inter-sectional …

  • A re-positioning of post-industrial heritage in upper Silesia, Poland, into an integrated thematic tourist route

    Adam R Szromek, Richard J Butler et al.ARTICLEJournal of Heritage Tourism2023Cited by: 2References: 1

    Cultural heritage tourism illustrated by tourists visiting post-industrial facilities became one of the ways to counteract the negative consequences of declining heavy industry at the end of the twentieth century. The initiation of tourist activity in post-industrial areas has also become an important justification for expenditure on the revitalization of objects that may constitute part of the cultural heritage of such regions. This article disc…

  • Cities, infrastructure and the making of modern citizenship: The view from north-west Europe since c . 1870

    Open AccessSimon Gunn, Richard J Butler et al.ARTICLEUrban History2022Cited by: 2References: 15

    Taking its cue from the ‘material turn’ of recent years, this survey examines the connections between infrastructure, welfare and citizenship in north European cities in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that connections between these different constructs were fundamental not only to how cities functioned but how citizens themselves were imagined. As such, the survey critiques histories of welfare and citizenship that foregr…

  • The afterlives of Galway jail, 'difficult' heritage, and the Maamtrasna murders: Representations of an Irish urban space, 1882-2018

    Open AccessRonald J Butler, Richard J ButlerARTICLEIrish Historical Studies2020References: 1

    This article explores the spatial history and 'afterlives' of Galway jail, where an innocent man, Myles Joyce, was executed in 1882 following his conviction for the Maamtrasna murders; in 2018 he was formally pardoned by President Michael D. Higgins. The article traces how the political and cultural meanings of this incident were instrumentalised in the building of Ireland's last Catholic cathedral on the site of the former Galway jail. It analys…

  • Tourism and resilience

    Richard J Butler, Richard Butler et al.BOOKTourism and Resilience2017

    This book discusses the concept of resilience and its application to tourism. It compares the relevance of resilience to sustainability; the former focusing on the well-being and survival of the places affected and the latter focusing on the agent of impact, tourism itself

  • Rethinking the Origins of the British Prisons Act of 1835: Ireland and the Development of Central-Government Prison Inspection, 1820–1835

    Open AccessRichard J Butler, Richard ButlerARTICLEThe Historical Journal2016Cited by: 1References: 14

    While the introduction of central-government inspectors for prisons in a British act of 1835 has been seen as a key Whig achievement of the 1830s, the Irish precedent enacted by Charles Grant, a liberal Tory chief secretary, in the early 1820s, has gone unnoticed by scholars. The article sets out to trace the Irish prefiguring of this measure and, in the process, to consider prison reform in the United Kingdom in the early nineteenth century in a…

  • The evolution of tourism and tourism research

    Richard J Butler, Richard ButlerARTICLETourism Recreation Research2015Cited by: 15References: 27

    This paper reviews the development of tourism to emphasize the fact that tourism, even ‘mass tourism’, is not a new phenomenon but process which has characterized human behaviour for many centuries, and is essentially iterative in nature. To understand it fully it is necessary to review what has gone before, along with the influences of factors such as technological innovation, and social and economic changes in societies. Similarly, academic res…

  • I Don't like Mondays: Explaining Monday Work Injury Claims

    Open AccessRichard J Butler, Nathan Kleinman et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2014References: 24

    More workers' compensation claims for soft-tissue injuries are filed on Monday than on any other day of the week. Explanations for the Monday claims include "warm-up" or ergonomic effects, false classification of off-the-job weekend due to economic incentives, or psychological responses to Monday work. To sort out these possibilities, the authors examine more than 200,000 employment day patterns for a single, large U.S. employer with uniform huma…

  • Wage and Injury Response to Shifts in Workplace Liability

    Open AccessRichard J Butler, John D WorrallARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2008References: 21

    This paper examines the impact of a monumental change in tort liability law, the Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA) of 1908. This shift from common law, by changing the way injured workers were compensated and the compensating wage differentials for risk bearing, set the stage for workers' compensation and other no-fault systems. Focusing on the New Jersey railroad system, the authors examine three periods: the pre-FELA years of 1900–1908; 1…

  • The Equalizing Effect of the Internet on Access to Research Expertise in Political Science and Economics

    Open AccessDaniel M Butler, Ronald J Butler et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2008References: 6

    Recent research shows that the Internet, by sharply reducing the real costs of sharing information, has profoundly impacted collaboration between faculty in different departments. Using information on spatial-temporal Bitnet connections, Agrawal and Goldfarb (2006) find that Internet connectivity increased collaboration between those connected universities by 85%. Extensively analyzing faculty productivity at the top 25 universities during the la…

  • Tourism and Indigenous Peoples

    Richard J Butler, Richard Butler et al.BOOKTourism and Indigenous Peoples2007Cited by: 16

    Sami Perspectives on Indigenous Tourism in Northern Europe:; I R. Butler & T. Hinch (red.) Tourism and Indigenous Peoples. Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier, Oxford, 176-187. : Commerce or Cultural Development

  • The Tourism Area Life Cycle, Vol. 1: Applications and Modifications

    Richard J Butler, Richard ButlerBOOKThe tourism area life cycle2006

    This volume contains specially commissioned chapters by leading researchers who have used and modified the original TALC model over the past two decades, a reprint of the original article, a discussion of its origins, and a comprehensive review of most of the published material using the TALC.

  • The Tourism Area Life Cycle, Vol.2: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues

    Richard J Butler, C Michael Hall et al.BOOKTourism Area Life Cycle Vol. 22006

    This book comprises chapters by leading researchers who have reviewed the original model in the light of their own and other conceptual and theoretical positions and models.Sections are on the origins of the TALC, spatial relationships, alternative conceptual approaches, renewing or retiring with the TALC and predicting with the TALC.

  • Modern War, Modern Law, and Army Doctrine: Are We in Step for the 21st Century

    Open AccessRonald J Butler, Richard J ButlerARTICLEThe US Army War College Quarterly…2002

    Our first problem was with using suppressive fires against the air defense. According to standard Army procedure, we simply estimated where the enemy air defense might be, based on the terrain and the force's operating pattern. But the Defense Department's lawyers insisted that before we shoot at these locations, they had to be `observed,' that is, not 'templated.' . . . By the lawyers' definition, someone would have to view Serb air defenses thr…

  • Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Missile Defense

    Eliot A Cohen, Richard J Butler et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs2002Cited by: 1

  • Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Safety under Alternative Insurance Arrangements

    Terry Thomason, Richard J Butler et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2002Cited by: 3

    Thomason, Schmidle, and Burton make use of a unique data set to delve into how insurance arrangements affect several objectives of the workers' compensation (WC) program. They underscore the effects of deregulation and other changes in WC insurance pricing arrangements by performing empirical analyses that use state-specific cost, benefit, and injury data from 48 states for 1975-1995. This allows them to address the interactive relationships amon…

  • The Effects of Worker Heterogeneity on Duration Dependence: Low-Back Claims in Workers Compensation

    Ronald J Butler, Richard J Butler et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2001

    We estimate models of workers compensation claim duration for a sample of Canadian workers with serious low-back injuries. The models extend recent duration research by allowing worker characteristics to affect duration dependence through the nonlocation parameters of the duration distribution. We compare results for modified Weibull models and piecewise-constant hazard rate models of duration dependence. The results show that workers' responses …

  • Managing Work Disability: Why First Return to Works is Not a Measure of Success

    Richard J Butler, William G Johnson et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1995Cited by: 5

  • Managing Work Disability: Why First Return to Work is Not a Measure of Success

    Open AccessRichard J Butler, William G Johnson et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1995References: 11

    Studies of the effectiveness of medical and vocational rehabilitation and the disincentive effects of workers' compensation benefits frequently assume that a return to work signals the end of the limiting effects of injuries. This study is the first to test that assumption empirically. The authors use a rich data set on Ontario workers with permanent partial impairments resulting from injuries that occurred between 1974 and 1987 to show that the …

  • Gamma Duration Models with Heterogeneity

    Ronald J Butler, Richard J Butler et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1991

    In the authors' analysis of nonwork spells for Workers Compensation Insurance, they use the family of generalized gamma distributions for the structural model of failure time and both nonparametric and parametric controls for heterogeneity. These specifications allow for nested likelihood tests of not only the correct form for parametric heterogeneity, but for the structural distributions as well. The authors find in their data that while heterog…

  • Robust and Partially Adaptive Estimation of Regression Models

    Ronald J Butler, Richard J Butler et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1990

    Richard J. Butler, James B. McDonald, Ray D. Nelson, Steven B. White, Robust and Partially Adaptive Estimation of Regression Models, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 72, No. 2 (May, 1990), pp. 321-327

  • Decision and Organization – Processes of Strategic Decision Making and Their Explanation

    Open AccessDavid J Hickson, Ronald J Butler et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration1989Cited by: 2References: 2

    Strategic decisions shape the course taken by an organization, whether it be in the public sector or the private sector. An analysis is reported of 150 cases of the making of such decisions in both publicly and privately owned organizations. Three types of decision‐making process are identified, sporadic, fluid , and constricted. Differences due to the nature of the subject matter under decision, and to the nature of the organization, are examine…

  • Interdistributional Income Inequality

    Ronald J Butler, Richard J Butler et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business and Economic…1987

    Incomplete moments are used to characterize income inequality and provide the basis for interdistributional Lorenz curves. Four measures of interdistributional inequality are considered and seen to be related to an interdistributional welfare interpretation. Based upon these measures, there has been a significant secular decline in interdistributional inequality between blacks and whites over the past 30 years

  • Some Generalized Mixture Distributions with an Application to Unemployment Duration

    James B McDonald, Ronald J Butler et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1987

    James B. McDonald, Richard J. Butler, Some Generalized Mixture Distributions with an Application to Unemployment Duration, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 69, No. 2 (May, 1987), pp. 232-240