Nationality American Role Academic | Name James Wilson Known for Broken windows theory | |
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Fields Political sciencePublic administrationSociology Institutions Boston CollegeHarvard University (1961–1987)UCLA Anderson School of Management at UCLA (1987–1997)Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy (1998–2009)the White House Task Force on Crime (1966)the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1985–90)President's Council on BioethicsAmerican Political Science Associationthe New England Electric System (now National Grid USA)RANDState Farm Mutual InsuranceAmerican Enterprise InstituteAmerican Academy of Arts and SciencesAmerican Philosophical SocietyHuman Rights Foundation Alma mater University of RedlandsUniversity of Chicago Notable awards Lifetime Achievement Award, American Political Science AssociationPresidential Medal of Freedom Books American Government, Thinking about crime, The moral sense, Bureaucracy, Crime and Human Nature: T Similar People John J DiIulio - Jr, Edward C Banfield, Richard Herrnstein, Peter H Schuck, Michael Tonry | ||
Residence United States of America | ||
1 of 4 james q wilson the genetic basis of political views
James Quinn Wilson (May 27, 1931 – March 2, 2012) was an American academic, political scientist, and an authority on public administration. Most of his career was spent as a professor at UCLA and Harvard University. He was the chairman of the Council of Academic Advisors of the American Enterprise Institute, member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1985–1990), and the President's Council on Bioethics. He was Director of Joint Center for Urban Studies at Harvard-MIT.
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- 1 of 4 james q wilson the genetic basis of political views
- Capitalism and Millennials The 2018 James Q Wilson Lecture
- Career
- Political views
- Personality
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He was the former president of the American Political Science Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society and Human Rights Foundation. He also was a co-author of a leading university textbook, American Government, and wrote many scholarly books and articles, and op-ed essays. He gained national attention for a 1982 article introducing the broken windows theory in The Atlantic. In 2003, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by US President George W. Bush.
