James L Regens
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James L Regens |
| GIVEN NAMES | James L |
| FAMILY NAME | Regens |
| SIGNATURE | REGENS J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2067-2547 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Predicting Known Terrorist Event Outcomes and the Illusion of Self‐Assessed Expertise
Objective This study focuses on the influence of self‐assessed expertise on forecasting accuracy for incomplete information. We investigate this ability in individuals using a series of indicators of terrorist behaviors. Method An instrument containing incomplete data on terrorist attacks was provided to participants. Participants were instructed to predict missing values. The accuracy of approximately 1,900 forecasts was determined. The influenc…
Managing emerging transnational public health security threats
BACKGROUND: Pandemics pose significant security/stability risks to nations with fragile infrastructures. We evaluated characteristics of the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak to elucidate lessons learned for managing transnational public health security threats. METHODS: We used publically available data to compare demographic and outbreak-specific data for Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, including key indicator data by the World Health Organiz…
Continuity and Change in the Operational Dynamics of the IslamicState
In this article we estimate the influence of leadership changes on the operational dynamics associated with terrorist attacks conducted by the Islamic State and its predecessors. Because the focus of our research is empirical, the study uses data for 2,131 successful attacks between October 2002 and December 2014 to examine differentials in operational tempo, attack severity, primary tactics employed, and principal targets. The data are aggregate…
Terrorism-Centric Behavior Recognition and Adversarial Threat Forecasting
Analyzing raw information collected by humans to characterize prospective adversarial threats is a core function of intelligence, colloquially referred to as the “world's second oldest profession,”
Effect of foreign military intervention and controlled territory on the operational tempo of al-Shabaab attacks
Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (commonly referred to as al-Shabaab) is the largest radical Islamist organization in Somalia and one of the oldest Islamist militant groups operating in Africa. This article analyzes the effects of foreign military intervention and the ability of the group to control territory on the operational tempo of al-Shabaab’s terrorist campaign. We examine the monthly distribution of attacks for 1050 successful attacks tha…
Terrorism‐Centric Behaviors and Adversarial Threat Awareness
This article estimates situational awareness in a diverse collection of police officers with respect to their individual ability to identify nine key behaviors that are indicative of terrorism activity. The selected group of police officers was drawn from state, county, and municipal law enforcement organizations. The terrorist‐centric behaviors were presented to the test group in multicomponent text‐based scenarios that emulate real‐world police…
Operational Dynamics of Boko Haram's Terrorist Campaign Following Leadership Succession
Objective This article analyzes the operational dynamics of Boko Haram, the largest radical Islamist organization engaged in acts of terrorism in Nigeria. Method We analyze Boko Haram's terrorist campaign using information gathered from 1,086 successful attacks that occurred between July 2009 and December 2014. We examine the operational tempo of attacks on a monthly basis, identify the primary tactics employed in and targets of those attacks, an…
The normalisation of terror
Man‐made disasters such as acts of terrorism may affect a society's resiliency and sensitivity to prolonged physical and psychological stress. The Israeli Tel Aviv stock market TA‐100 Index was used as an indicator of reactivity to suicide terror bombings. After accounting for factors such as world market changes and attack severity and intensity, the analysis reveals that although Israel's financial base remained sensitive to each act of terror …
Islamic Radicalism and Global Jihad
Preface Introduction: The Call to Jihad 1: Philosophical Foundations 2: Strategic Vision 3: Organizational Dynamics 4: Recruitment and Training 5: Operations and Tactics 6: Future Directions 7: The Challenge of Credible Intelligence Conclusion: Forging a Winning Strategy to Counter the Global Jihad Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
Probability models for predicting local water quality regulations in the southern United States
The Electoral Consequences of Voting to Declare War
The conventional wisdom of national elections suggests that there are electoral costs associated with opposing declarations of war. However, an alternative literature contends that the negative electoral consequences of waging war may be borne by legislators who supported war, especially those members of the majority party. The authors test this assumption by examining the electoral consequences of supporting or opposing the declarations of war f…
Member Attributes and Corporate Contributions to United States Senators
This study examines corporate contributions through political action committees (PACs) to US Senate incumbents from 1978 to 1988 by those industries which have sustained substantial environmental compliance costs and consequently have an incentive to develop relatively precise targeting strategies. The findings suggest that party, ideology, regulatory costs, and challenger attributes play especially important roles in corporate allocation strateg…
Making Choices about Choice
Political and Economic Influences On Private-Sector Pollution Control Costs
oriented toward reliance on markets and private property rights, the political response by Congress as well as numerous presidential administrations to the unforeseen or undesirable consequences of industrial production processes and products have been considerable. Since the late 1960s, an array of new regulatory agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the Consumer Produc…
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implications such trends might have for states, especially questions related to intergenerational equity. Although taxes and intergovernmental grants traditionally have been focal points for scholarly research, the sale of debt, which is also an important way of meeting budget requirements, has received considerably less scholarly attention (see Aronson and Hilley, 1986; Heins, 1963; Ratchford, 1941).1 Nonetheless, since the end of World War II, …
Political and Economic Influences On Private-Sector Pollution Control Costs
Measuring Environmental Benefits with Contingent Markets
question facing environmental management professionals, and in this research note James L. Regens offers a possible answer: the contingent-valuation (CV) method. Applying survey research techniques to measure the public's willingness to pay for a program, the CV approach has been used in a variety of contexts. Regens illustrates the utility of the approach in a case involving proposals to deal with pollution of Norway's Kritiansand Fjord. His ana…
China, Acid Rain, and Hazardous Waste
Acid Rain Policymaking and Environmental Federalism
Acid rain controls are one of the more salient policy issues for contemporary environmental federalism. Agenda prominence, however, does not guarantee agreement on the components of a regulatory program. Depending on how many tons of emissions reduction one wants, when one wants them, and how one permits emitters to achieve compliance, a control program's costs can vary by billions of dollars annually. This article provides a summary of significa…
Funding for environmental protection
Examining the budget of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides a unique opportunity to test the relative importance of executive and legislative influences on funding. In general since establishment of EPA in 1970, Congress has advocated more programs and the president has tried to restrain spending. In particular during the Reagan administration, the executive and legislative branches differed sharply in their priorities
The Acid Rain Controversy
Outlook for Intergovernmental Science and Technology
The decade of the 1980s has tested the American federal system. Budget deficits, international economic competition, and other pressures have forced local, state, and federal officials to restructure their relationships. Nowhere has this been more apparent than in the area of science and technology (S&T) policy. Traditionally dominated by the federal government, S&T decisions increasingly have become intergovernmental in character. But true partn…
Multi‐objective Analysis as a Management Tool for Recreation Policy
Measuring Equity in Regulatory Policy Implementation
Today's conventional wisdom asserts that, on balance, the social and economic regulatory policies adopted by the United States from the 1930s through the 1970s have not succeeded. Although evidence can be found to lend support to this argument, analysis of the policy process and its consequences must take into account a serious caveat: major problems remain in our efforts to develop and apply valid and reliable measures of success or failure. I A…
The Political Economy of Acid Rain
Over the past decade, acid rain has been transformed from a relatively unnoticed area of scientific inquiry into a major environmental issue of regional, national, and international concern. What is acid rain, why has it acquired such relatively sudden political prominence, and what are the prospects for the adoption of policies addressing this issue? These questions illustrate how the regional cleavages inherent in transboundary air pollution pr…
The Electoral Consequences of Voting to Declare War
The conventional wisdom of national elections suggests that there are electoral costs associated with opposing declarations of war. However, an alternative literature contends that the negative electoral consequences of waging war may be borne by legislators who supported war, especially those members of the majority party. The authors test this assumption by examining the electoral consequences of supporting or opposing the declarations of war f…
Risk Assessment in the Policy-Making Process
This article examines the extent to which differences exist in the relative degree of discretion permitted by the statutory mandates under which health risk assessments are conducted as a basis for regulatory action. Attention is focused on the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration, because they are the lead federal regulatory agencies on most environmental health matters. The statutes are found to define risk, cons…
The normalisation of terror
Man‐made disasters such as acts of terrorism may affect a society's resiliency and sensitivity to prolonged physical and psychological stress. The Israeli Tel Aviv stock market TA‐100 Index was used as an indicator of reactivity to suicide terror bombings. After accounting for factors such as world market changes and attack severity and intensity, the analysis reveals that although Israel's financial base remained sensitive to each act of terror …
Operational Dynamics of Boko Haram's Terrorist Campaign Following Leadership Succession
Objective This article analyzes the operational dynamics of Boko Haram, the largest radical Islamist organization engaged in acts of terrorism in Nigeria. Method We analyze Boko Haram's terrorist campaign using information gathered from 1,086 successful attacks that occurred between July 2009 and December 2014. We examine the operational tempo of attacks on a monthly basis, identify the primary tactics employed in and targets of those attacks, an…
Making Choices about Choice
Funding for environmental protection
Examining the budget of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides a unique opportunity to test the relative importance of executive and legislative influences on funding. In general since establishment of EPA in 1970, Congress has advocated more programs and the president has tried to restrain spending. In particular during the Reagan administration, the executive and legislative branches differed sharply in their priorities
Administrative Discretion in Energy Policy-Making
Continuity and Change in the Operational Dynamics of the IslamicState
In this article we estimate the influence of leadership changes on the operational dynamics associated with terrorist attacks conducted by the Islamic State and its predecessors. Because the focus of our research is empirical, the study uses data for 2,131 successful attacks between October 2002 and December 2014 to examine differentials in operational tempo, attack severity, primary tactics employed, and principal targets. The data are aggregate…
Effect of foreign military intervention and controlled territory on the operational tempo of al-Shabaab attacks
Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (commonly referred to as al-Shabaab) is the largest radical Islamist organization in Somalia and one of the oldest Islamist militant groups operating in Africa. This article analyzes the effects of foreign military intervention and the ability of the group to control territory on the operational tempo of al-Shabaab’s terrorist campaign. We examine the monthly distribution of attacks for 1050 successful attacks tha…
Member Attributes and Corporate Contributions to United States Senators
This study examines corporate contributions through political action committees (PACs) to US Senate incumbents from 1978 to 1988 by those industries which have sustained substantial environmental compliance costs and consequently have an incentive to develop relatively precise targeting strategies. The findings suggest that party, ideology, regulatory costs, and challenger attributes play especially important roles in corporate allocation strateg…
Political and Economic Influences On Private-Sector Pollution Control Costs
Outlook for Intergovernmental Science and Technology
The decade of the 1980s has tested the American federal system. Budget deficits, international economic competition, and other pressures have forced local, state, and federal officials to restructure their relationships. Nowhere has this been more apparent than in the area of science and technology (S&T) policy. Traditionally dominated by the federal government, S&T decisions increasingly have become intergovernmental in character. But true partn…
Physicians' Assistants as a Health Care Delivery Mechanism
Energy Development, Environmental Protection, and Public Policy
Energy Conservation and the States
Energy Conservation and the States: Approaches to Implementing National Policy Get access James L. Regens James L. Regens University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 10, Issue 1, Winter 1980, Pages 47–56, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037299 Published: 01 January 1980
Physicians' Assistants as a Health Care Delivery Mechanism
Administrative Discretion in Energy Policy-Making
The Courts as a Source of Regulatory Revitalization
The authors examine the relationship between the courts and HEW's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), to illustrate the effects of legal efforts to generate more vigorous agency enforcement. Opponents of racial and sex discrimination in public schools won a series of suits against OCR after it had ceased to effectively implement anti‐discrimination legislation. As a result of court decisions, OCR has had its discretion over how it will carry out its l…
Analyzing Air‐pollution Policies
Risk Assessment in the Policy-Making Process
This article examines the extent to which differences exist in the relative degree of discretion permitted by the statutory mandates under which health risk assessments are conducted as a basis for regulatory action. Attention is focused on the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration, because they are the lead federal regulatory agencies on most environmental health matters. The statutes are found to define risk, cons…
The Political Economy of Acid Rain
Over the past decade, acid rain has been transformed from a relatively unnoticed area of scientific inquiry into a major environmental issue of regional, national, and international concern. What is acid rain, why has it acquired such relatively sudden political prominence, and what are the prospects for the adoption of policies addressing this issue? These questions illustrate how the regional cleavages inherent in transboundary air pollution pr…
Measuring Equity in Regulatory Policy Implementation
Today's conventional wisdom asserts that, on balance, the social and economic regulatory policies adopted by the United States from the 1930s through the 1970s have not succeeded. Although evidence can be found to lend support to this argument, analysis of the policy process and its consequences must take into account a serious caveat: major problems remain in our efforts to develop and apply valid and reliable measures of success or failure. I A…
Multi‐objective Analysis as a Management Tool for Recreation Policy
Outlook for Intergovernmental Science and Technology
The decade of the 1980s has tested the American federal system. Budget deficits, international economic competition, and other pressures have forced local, state, and federal officials to restructure their relationships. Nowhere has this been more apparent than in the area of science and technology (S&T) policy. Traditionally dominated by the federal government, S&T decisions increasingly have become intergovernmental in character. But true partn…
Acid Rain Policymaking and Environmental Federalism
Acid rain controls are one of the more salient policy issues for contemporary environmental federalism. Agenda prominence, however, does not guarantee agreement on the components of a regulatory program. Depending on how many tons of emissions reduction one wants, when one wants them, and how one permits emitters to achieve compliance, a control program's costs can vary by billions of dollars annually. This article provides a summary of significa…
Funding for environmental protection
Examining the budget of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides a unique opportunity to test the relative importance of executive and legislative influences on funding. In general since establishment of EPA in 1970, Congress has advocated more programs and the president has tried to restrain spending. In particular during the Reagan administration, the executive and legislative branches differed sharply in their priorities
The Acid Rain Controversy
China, Acid Rain, and Hazardous Waste
Measuring Environmental Benefits with Contingent Markets
question facing environmental management professionals, and in this research note James L. Regens offers a possible answer: the contingent-valuation (CV) method. Applying survey research techniques to measure the public's willingness to pay for a program, the CV approach has been used in a variety of contexts. Regens illustrates the utility of the approach in a case involving proposals to deal with pollution of Norway's Kritiansand Fjord. His ana…
Political and Economic Influences On Private-Sector Pollution Control Costs
oriented toward reliance on markets and private property rights, the political response by Congress as well as numerous presidential administrations to the unforeseen or undesirable consequences of industrial production processes and products have been considerable. Since the late 1960s, an array of new regulatory agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the Consumer Produc…
Buy Now, Pay Later
implications such trends might have for states, especially questions related to intergenerational equity. Although taxes and intergovernmental grants traditionally have been focal points for scholarly research, the sale of debt, which is also an important way of meeting budget requirements, has received considerably less scholarly attention (see Aronson and Hilley, 1986; Heins, 1963; Ratchford, 1941).1 Nonetheless, since the end of World War II, …
Political and Economic Influences On Private-Sector Pollution Control Costs
Member Attributes and Corporate Contributions to United States Senators
This study examines corporate contributions through political action committees (PACs) to US Senate incumbents from 1978 to 1988 by those industries which have sustained substantial environmental compliance costs and consequently have an incentive to develop relatively precise targeting strategies. The findings suggest that party, ideology, regulatory costs, and challenger attributes play especially important roles in corporate allocation strateg…
Making Choices about Choice
The Electoral Consequences of Voting to Declare War
The conventional wisdom of national elections suggests that there are electoral costs associated with opposing declarations of war. However, an alternative literature contends that the negative electoral consequences of waging war may be borne by legislators who supported war, especially those members of the majority party. The authors test this assumption by examining the electoral consequences of supporting or opposing the declarations of war f…
Probability models for predicting local water quality regulations in the southern United States
Islamic Radicalism and Global Jihad
Preface Introduction: The Call to Jihad 1: Philosophical Foundations 2: Strategic Vision 3: Organizational Dynamics 4: Recruitment and Training 5: Operations and Tactics 6: Future Directions 7: The Challenge of Credible Intelligence Conclusion: Forging a Winning Strategy to Counter the Global Jihad Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
The normalisation of terror
Man‐made disasters such as acts of terrorism may affect a society's resiliency and sensitivity to prolonged physical and psychological stress. The Israeli Tel Aviv stock market TA‐100 Index was used as an indicator of reactivity to suicide terror bombings. After accounting for factors such as world market changes and attack severity and intensity, the analysis reveals that although Israel's financial base remained sensitive to each act of terror …
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