James Q. Wilson

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James Q. Wilson (born May 27, 1931) in Denver, Colorado is the Ronald Reagan professor of public policy at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy in California, and a professor emeritus at UCLA. From 1961 to 1987 he was a professor of government at Harvard University. He has a Ph.D. (1959) and masters degree (1957) from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the University of Redlands (1952) where he was the national collegiate debate champion in 1951 and 1952.

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[edit] Political and Business Positions

He is a former Chairman of the White House Task Force on Crime (1966), of the National Advisor Commission on Drug Abuse Prevention (1972-73) and a member of the Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crime (1981), the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1985-90), and the President's Council on Bioethics. He is a former president of the American Political Science Association. He has served on the board of directors for the New England Electric System, Protection One, RAND, and State Farm Mutual Insurance.

He is the chairman of the Council of Academic Advisors of the American Enterprise Institute. Wilson is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the International Council of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation.

[edit] Awards

He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in 2003.

[edit] Views

Wilson describes himself as "more conservative than most academics but more liberal than the country as a whole." [1]

[edit] Writings by James Q. Wilson

  • American Government
  • The Marriage Problem (2002)
  • Moral Judgment (1997)
  • Political Organizations (1995)
  • The Moral Sense (1993)
  • On Character (1991)
  • Bureaucracy (1989)
  • Crime and Human Nature (1985, with Richard Herrnstein)
  • Watching Fishes: Life and Behavior on Coral Reefs (1985, with Roberta Wilson)
  • Thinking About Crime (1983)
  • The Investigators (1978)
  • Varieties of Police Behavior (1968)
  • The Amateur Democrat (1966)
  • City Politics (1963, with Edward Banfield)
  • Negro Politics (1960)

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Newton, Jim. "James Q. Wilson: The power of his written word", Los Angeles Times, 2007-06-03. Retrieved on 2008-04-27.