James D. Riggle
Research Associate Professor

Curriculum Vita

Education
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, Doctor of Philosophy in Public Policy (Ph.D.). May 2002. Dissertation: The Future of American Federalism: Modeling State Politics and Policy.

Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois, Masters Degree in Public Administration (MPA), May 1980, with honors. Concentration in Urban Management and Development.

Northern Illinois University, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), May 1978, with honors. Major in Political Science, minor in English.

Areas of Specialization and Current Research Interests

• Regional economic development and technology-led economic development.
• Agriculture and conservation policies.
• Strategic planning, strategic plan evaluation, and organizational performance measurement.
• Planning and zoning, and land use management.
• Non-profit/non-governmental organization operation and management.
• Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland peace processes.
• American federalism, state and local government, and intergovernmental relations.
• Public policy processes and policy modeling.
• Municipal-level economic development in China

Employment
1993-present
George Mason University, School of Public Policy, Fairfax, VA
Research Fellow, Research Instructor, Research Assistant Professor, and Research Associate Professor.

1983-1993
American Farmland Trust, Washington, DC
Director of Field Operations, and Director of State and Local Policy.

1980-1983
Illinois Department of Agriculture, Springfield, IL
Management Operations Analyst, and Soil and Water Conservation Advisor.

1979-1980
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Research Instructor.

1978
Will County Regional Planning Commission, Joliet, IL
Transportation Planner.

1974-1977
Chicago and Northwestern Transportation Company, Chicago, IL. Trackman, Brakeman, and Conductor, Chicago & Northwestern Railway.

Summary of Sponsored Research and Training Activities
1994
US Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, study and report of sources of transportation data.

1994
Prince William County Board of Supervisors, study and report on County Board and County Staff working relations.

1994
US Navy, Naval Regional Contracting Center (NRCC), study and report on NRCC Branch chiefs, NRCC internal customers, and NRCC external customers’ abilities and use of information technology.

1994
CALIBRE Systems, Inc., study of state and local government performance measurement systems.

1994-1995
Dimensions International, Inc, (subcontract from US Department of Defense, Advanced Research Projects Agency), study and implementation of Continuous Acquisition and Life Cycle Support Systems, and electronic commerce resources.

1995
City of Warrenton and Fauquier County, assessment and report on economic development options for former US Government Vint Hill Communications Station.

1995
City of Alexandria (with support from the US Department of Commerce), support the City’s Task Force on Information Technology and Telecommunications, research and report City Council, City staff, and citizens’ groups preferences and uses of information technology.

1995
Fairfax County Park Authority (FCPA), case study of FCPA as an example of a local public authority and calculation of the present value of FCPA’s land holdings.

1995-1996
National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, study of state regulation of nuclear medicine (peer reviewed paper).

1995-2001
Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology (CIT), annual studies of enterprise development and economic impacts of programs for technology-intensive industries in Virginia.

1996-1997
Philpott Manufacturing Center, survey and report of manufacturing companies in Virginia.

1997-1998
MITRE Corporation (subcontract from US Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency), study of state and local government outsourcing initiatives as models for the Department of Defense.

1999-2000
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, feasibility study to add two regional parks to the state park system.

2000-2007
Nederlandse School voor Openbaar Bestuur (Netherlands School for Public Administration), annual US point of contact for graduate research fellows.

2001-2002
Logicon/Northrop Grumman (subcontract from the US State Department), develop and implement evaluation program for the Walsh Visa Program (Ireland-Northern Ireland Peace Project).

2001-2004
CapWIN, the Capital Area Wireless Integrated Network (pilot project funded by the US Department of Transportation), program and organizational development.

2001-2007
City of Alexandria, Department of Information Technology Services, annual study of client satisfaction and agency performance.

2002
County Executives of America, study of the costs of undocumented immigrants to US counties.

2003
Battelle Memorial Institute, market analysis of information assurance services.

2003
CSC Corporation, study of enterprise business systems.

2003-2007
City of Alexandria, Department of Personnel Services, annual study of client satisfaction and agency performance.

2003-2007
Virginia Department of Human Resource Management: annual through 2008 for the Virginia Certified Public Manager Program.

2004-2005
NASA, Office of the Chief Engineer, assessment and presentation of NASA’s compliance with recommendations of the Columbia Accident Review Board.

2005
China Center for Leadership Assessment, People’s Republic of China, training program with US Office of Personnel Management and Miami-Dade County, Florida.

2006
Cities of Jinan, Jiangdu, and Qingdao, People’s Republic of China, economic research and business incubation.

2007
Management Development Institute, Guargnon, India, training program for mid-career Indian public servants.

2007
Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India, training program for mid-career Indian public servants.

Publications & Research
Riggle, J., and R.R. Stough, “Evaluating Critical Institutional Infrastructure: An assessment of a state-level cooperative technology program in the US, ” J Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Special Issue, P. Conceição, M. Heitor and F. Veloso, editors, 2003.

Stough, Roger R., Rajendra Kulkarni, Jim Riggle, and Kingsley E. Haynes, “Technology and Industrial Cluster Analysis,” in The Region in the New Economy: An International Perspective on Regional Dynamics in the 21st Century, Yoshiro Higano, et al., eds., (Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.), 2002, pp. 155-178.

Conlan, Timothy J., and James D. Riggle, “New Opportunities/Nagging Questions: The Politics of State Policymaking in the 1990s,” in Max B. Sawicky, ed., The End of Welfare? Consequences of Federal Devolution for the Nation, (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe and Economic Policy Institute), 1999, pp. 25-54.

Riggle, James D., and Jonathan Tolman, “Land Development Not a Threat to America’s Farmland,” Land Development, vol. 11, no.3, Winter 1999, pp. 20-24.

Haynes, KE, RR Stough, G Maas, and JD Riggle, “Regional governance and economic development: lessons from federal states,” in European Research in Regional Science, Volume 7: Regional Governance and Economic Development, (London: Pion Limited), 1997.

Riggle, James D., “Regulatory Schema in Intergovernmental Affairs,” in Radiation in Medicine: A Need for Regulatory Reform, National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, (Washington, DC), 1996.

Conlan, Timothy J., James D. Riggle, and Donna E. Schwartz, “Deregulating Federalism? The Politics of Mandate Reform in the 104th Congress,” Publius, vol. 25, no. 3, Summer 1995.

Conlan, Tim, and Jim Riggle, “Drink, But Don’t Flush, City’s Water,” Op/Ed, Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 11, 1994, p. A13.

Riggle, James D., “Seeking Resolution: The Challenge of Conservation Compliance,” Farmland Preservation Report, Special Report, (Bowers Publishing Inc., Street, MD), December 1992.

Hiemstra, Hal, Frederick Steiner, Helene Lepkowski, John DeGrove, Robert Coughlin, and James Riggle, A Policy Forum: Information Needs in the Urbanization of Rural Lands in Land Use Transition and Urbanizing Areas, Ralph E. Heimlich, Editor. The Farm Foundation in cooperation with the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC, 1989.

Riggle, James D., “Using Private Land Trusts and Conservation Easements to Provide Recreational Opportunities on Private Lands,” in Recreation on Private Lands: Issues and Opportunities, proceedings of a conference convened by the President’s Commission on Americans Outdoors, Task Force on Recreation on Private Lands, Washington, DC, March 1986.

Esseks, J. Dixon, Daniel J. Scanlon, and James D. Riggle, “Conditional Use Agricultural Zoning in Marion County, Oregon,” in National Agricultural Lands Study: Case Studies on State and Local Programs to Protect Farmland, (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office), 1981, pp. 5-1 to 5-20.

Selected Papers and Reports
Riggle, James D., Ph.D., “Statement to the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration Introducing the Global MPA Program,” presentation to the United Nations’ Committee of Experts on Public Administration, UN Social and Economic Council, April 2, 2004.

Riggle, James D., “Final Report: A Study of City of Alexandria Employees’ Experience and Satisfaction with Information Technology Services,” prepared for the City of Alexandria Department of Information Technology Services, 2002-2007.

Riggle, James D., Sara Daleski, and Roger R. Stough, “Final Report: A Study of City of Alexandria Employees’ Experience and Satisfaction with Information Technology Services,” prepared for the City of Alexandria Department of Information Technology Services, May 2001.

Riggle, James D., Roger R. Stough, Sara Daleski, and Joshua Van Schagen, “Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology Study of Fiscal Year 2000 Economic and Program Impacts, and Customer Satisfaction,” George Mason University, School of Public Policy, 1995-2000.

Riggle, James D., John Crockett, A. George Cook, and Roger R.Stough, “Public Authorities in a Changing Policy Environment: Issues and Options for the Fairfax County Park Authority,” Center for Regional Analysis, The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, January 1996.

Riggle, James D., and Kingsley E. Haynes, “The Conflict Between Economic Opportunity and Environmental Priorities in U.S. Farm Policy,” Working Paper: 95-2, The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, January 1995.

Riggle, James D., “The Evolutionary Process of American Federalism: Is a New Stage Emerging?”, May 1993; presented at the American Society for Public Administration annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, July 1993.

Riggle, James D., “The Influence of Externality Groups on U.S. Farm Policy: Is Our Land Base Adequate?”, May 1993; delivered as an address to the American Farm Bureau Federation Council of Presidents in Washington, DC, July 1993.

Riggle, James D., “No More Free Lunch: Policy Change in the 1985 Food Security Act,” unpublished  monograph, American Farmland Trust, December 1992.

Riggle, James D., Statement on providing surplus commodities to needy Americans, to the Select Committee on Hunger, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC, August 5, 1987.

Riggle, James D., “Recreational Opportunities Available through the Programs and Policies of the Food Security Act of 1985,” concept paper prepared for the President's Commission on Americans Outdoors, Washington, DC, June, 1986.

Riggle, James D., “Agriculture in Transition: the Land Use Implications for Public Policy and Program Issues,” concept paper prepared for the President's Commission on Americans Outdoors, Washington, DC, June, 1986.