James Q. Wilson
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American political scientist and adviser and sociologist
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Political Science Sociology
James Q. Wilson's Degrees
- Bachelors Political Science University of Redlands
- PhD Political Science University of Chicago
Why Is James Q. Wilson Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Quinn Wilson was an American 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 , and the President's Council on Bioethics. He was Director of Joint Center for Urban Studies at Harvard-MIT.
James Q. Wilson's Published Works
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Published Works
- Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It (1990) (2765)
- Crime and Human Nature (1985) (1170)
- INCENTIVE SYSTEMS: A THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONS (1961) (849)
- Thinking About Crime (1976) (830)
- Varieties of Police Behavior (1968) (752)
- The Moral Sense (1994) (497)
- Drugs and Crime (1990) (335)
- Crime and public policy (1984) (301)
- The police and neighborhood safety Broken Windows (2017) (295)
- The effect of the police on crime (1979) (219)
- Coping with Crime (1976) (207)
- Public-Regardingness as a Value Premise in Voting Behavior (1964) (188)
- Heresies Revived: Three Vexing Books@@@The Prediction of Criminal Behaviour: Statistical Approaches@@@The Reasoning Criminal: Rational Choice Perspectives on Offending@@@Understanding and Controlling Crime: Toward a New Research Strategy (1988) (161)
- Understanding and controlling crime (1986) (149)
- Who really cares : the surprising truth about compassionate conservatism : America's charity divide--who gives, who doesn't, and why it matters (2006) (122)
- Urban Renewal: The Record and the Controversy (1966) (112)
- The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families (2002) (107)
- Crime : public policies for crime control (2004) (103)
- The Amateur Democrat (1962) (102)
- Does crime pay (1992) (91)
- Planning and Politics: Citizen Participation in Urban Renewal (1963) (85)
- The Economy of Patronage (1961) (80)
- The Ethics of Human Cloning (1998) (76)
- The amateur Democrat : club politics in three cities. (1962) (74)
- The strategy of protest: problems of negro civic action (1961) (70)
- A Longitudinal Study of the Effect of Race on Sentencing (1983) (69)
- Political Ethos Revisited (1971) (65)
- Negro Politics: The Search for Leadership (1960) (57)
- Reinventing Public Administration (1994) (56)
- Dilemmas of Police Administration (1968) (50)
- Adam Smith on Business Ethics (1989) (45)
- Understanding America : the anatomy of an exceptional nation (2008) (43)
- Age, Crime, and Punishment (1978) (33)
- The Investigators: Managing FBI and Narcotics Agents. (1978) (30)
- Scarcity, Market Power, and Price Caps in Wholesale Electric Power Markets (2000) (29)
- Against the Legalization of Drugs (2012) (29)
- The Rise of the Bureaucratic State (2014) (28)
- City politics and public policy (1969) (27)
- "Policy Intellectuals" and Public Policy. (1981) (23)
- The Metropolitan enigma : inquiries into the nature and dimensions of America's urban crisis (1969) (21)
- Moral Judgment: Does The Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System? (1997) (19)
- The Amateur Democrat: Club Politics in Three Cities. (1963) (19)
- Cities in trouble (1970) (18)
- Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance (2010) (18)
- Generational and Ethnic Differences Among Career Police Officers (1964) (16)
- THE EFFECTS OF THE POLICE ON CRIME: A RESPONSE TO JACOB AND RICH (1981) (13)
- Two Negro Politicians: An Interpretation (1960) (12)
- The Problem of Heroin. (1972) (12)
- Does the Separation of Powers Still Work (1987) (11)
- Freedom of Information and Research Data (2011) (11)
- On Pettigrew and Armor: An Afterword. (1973) (10)
- After the Natural Gas Bubble: An Economic Evaluation of the Recent U.S. National Petroleum Council Study (2005) (10)
- CARS AND THEIR ENEMIES (1997) (10)
- Crime in Society and Schools1 (1976) (9)
- Patronage in New York State, 1955–1959 (1964) (9)
- Throwing Down the Gauntlet: A Challenge to the Relevance of Sociology for the Etiology of Criminal Behavior@@@Crime and Human Nature. (1987) (9)
- American Government: Brief Version (2000) (9)
- On Character: Essays (1991) (8)
- Minorities and the Police: Confrontation in America. (1971) (7)
- The need for evaluation research (2006) (7)
- Juridical Democracy versus American Democracy (1990) (7)
- Interests and Deliberation in the American Republic, or, Why James Madison Would Never Have Received the James Madison Award (1990) (7)
- The Effects of Labeling (1986) (7)
- What Can the Police Do About Violence? (1980) (6)
- Ethics and the Acquisition of Organs (2012) (6)
- Budgeting for Immigration Enforcement: A Path to Better Performance (2013) (6)
- Pat Moynihan Thinks about Families (2009) (6)
- Forward capacity market CONEfusion (2010) (6)
- The Police and the Community (1970) (6)
- High Natural Gas Prices in California, 2000–2001: Causes and Lessons (2002) (5)
- Crime, race, and values (1992) (5)
- Budgeting for Immigration Enforcement (2011) (4)
- Police performance and case attrition (1987) (4)
- The Metropolitan Enigma: Inquiries into the Nature and Dimensions of America's "Urban Crisis." (1969) (4)
- Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1992 (1993) (4)
- Harvard's Core Curriculum: A View From the Inside (1978) (4)
- American Government: The Essentials (1998) (3)
- Emerging Patterns in American Police Administration (1973) (3)
- The Problem with Macrocriminology (2012) (3)
- Fuel Contracting under Uncertainty (1986) (3)
- Comment on Durlauf and Nagin (2011) (3)
- A long way from the back of the bus (1997) (3)
- Wealth and happiness (1994) (3)
- THE AMATEUR DEMOCRAT IN AMERICAN POLITICS (1962) (3)
- No More Home Alone (1996) (2)
- Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible (2018) (2)
- A Hard Look at Incentive Mechanisms for Natural Gas Procurement (2006) (2)
- Necessity versus the Devil (1965) (2)
- What Have We Learned From Major Longitudinal Surveys (1986) (2)
- The Police and the Delinquent in Two Cities (2017) (2)
- The Case for a New Crime Research Strategy: An Overview (1986) (1)
- Comment on random assignment in policy research (2009) (1)
- Emotions, reason, and character (1994) (1)
- Harvard's Core Curriculum: An Inside View. (1978) (1)
- A Comment On Eisinger (1974) (1)
- Book Review:Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics. Seymour Martin Lipset (1962) (1)
- American Politics, Then & Now: And Other Essays (2010) (1)
- Poets and Poetry in Purgatory (1972) (1)
- American government : the essentials : institutions & policies (2015) (1)
- More about the Police@@@Varieties of Police Behavior@@@The People and the Police@@@Minorities and the Police (1969) (1)
- Fuel Contracting Under Uncertainty (1986) (1)
- REAPPROPRIATION, RESISTANCE, AND BRITISH AUTOCRACY IN SRI LANKA, 1820–1850* (2016) (1)
- Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, Parts 1 And 2 by Jack Thorne (review) (2017) (1)
- Thinking aboutThinking about crime (1977) (1)
- Thinking about Cohorts (1991) (1)
- The Concept of Culture. (1993) (0)
- Letters from readers (1977) (0)
- Metropolitan America: A Mixed Bag of Problems@@@Citizen Participation in Urban Development: Volume I-Concepts and Issues@@@The Emergence of Metropolitan America 1915-1966@@@The Metropolitan Enigma: Inquiries into the Nature and Dimension of America's "Urban Crisis"@@@Metropolitan Decision Processes: (1970) (0)
- New Hope learning center (1973) (0)
- Response: Moral Intuitions and Moral Philosophy (1994) (0)
- Book Review:The Congressional Party: A Case Study. David B. Truman (1960) (0)
- Phase I Cultural Resource Survey of Dayton Power & Light's Proposed Transmission Line and Tower Replacement Project Between Its Foster and Bath Substations in Greene and Warren Counties, Ohio (1999) (0)
- Book Review:1400 Governments: The Political Economy of the New York Metropolitan Region. Robert C. Wood (1962) (0)
- Book Review:Governing New York City. Wallace S. Sayre, Herbert Kaufman (1960) (0)
- Conducting the Investigative Interview (2017) (0)
- An Internship… Can, Should or Must it Be Part of My Future? (2011) (0)
- Phase I Cultural Resource Survey of Dpl Energy's Proposed Darby Electric Generating Station in Darby and Monroe Townships, Pickaway County, Ohio (2000) (0)
- Imputing a biological impetus to society (1998) (0)
- Shall the APSA Have Organized Subfields? (1977) (0)
- The Universal Aspiration. (1993) (0)
- Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited (review) (2003) (0)
- Thinking about Parent and Child [Book Review]. (1999) (0)
- What Kinds of Longitudinal-Experimental Studies Are Needed? (1986) (0)
- Phase I Cultural Resource Survey of Dpl Energy's Proposed Harrod Electric Generating Facility, Auglaize Township, Allen County, Ohio (2000) (0)
- The somewhat different diva: Impersonation, ambivalence and the musical comedy performances of Julian Eltinge (2018) (0)
- In Defense of Huntington (2004) (0)
- Deviance and Human Nature (2019) (0)
- Prevention: Families and Schools (1986) (0)
- Restructuring the Electric Power Industry: Past Problems, Future Directions (2016) (0)
- Use of Foreign Drugs (1991) (0)
- Sacred Places, Civic Purposes: Some Thoughts on What the Congregations Do (1999) (0)
- The New York ISO's Market Power Screens, Thresholds, and Mitigation: Why It Is Not a Model (2000) (0)
- Revising the guidelines for inclusion (1997) (0)
- Book Review:Boss Cermak of Chicago: A Study of Political Leadership. Alex Gottfried (1962) (0)
- Little Rock, U.S.A.: Materials for Analysis. Edited By Record Wilson and Record Jane Cassels. (San Francisco: Chandler Publishing Company. 1960. Pp. 338, $2.25.) (1961) (0)
- Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of Dpl Energy, LLC'S Preferred Site for an Electric Generating Facility in Clark and Madison Counties, Ohio (2001) (0)
- Book Review:Negro Leadership in a Southern City. M. Elaine Burgess (1962) (0)
- Phase I Cultural Resource Survey of Marathon Ashland Petroleum, LLC'S Lima to Canton, 12" Mainline Replacement Project in Wyandot and Marion Counties, Ohio (2000) (0)
- Morality, Dignity and Pragmatism: an Essay on the Future of Morality (2002) (0)
- Colorado River studies (2015) (0)
- Restructuring the Juvenile Court (1986) (0)
- Liberation Theology: Is There a Future For it? (1993) (0)
- Bureaucracy and Participation: Political Cultures in Four Wisconsin Cities. By Alford Robert R.. (Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1969. Pp. 224. $6.50.) (1970) (0)
- Book Review:The Politics of Nonpartisanship: A Study of California City Elections. Eugene C. Lee (1961) (0)
- What Have We Learned From Major Experimental Studies (1986) (0)
- Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of Williams Gas Pipeline-Transco's Proposed Line Changes, Temporary Workspaces and Pipeyards Along the Clinton Loop and the Stirling Loop (2002) (0)
- The humanities, in memoriam (1995) (0)
- Book Review:The Study of Politics: The Present State of American Political Science. Charles S. Hyneman (1960) (0)
- The Effects of Imprisonment (1986) (0)
- Crime and Justice in England and America (1997) (0)
- The drama of the college wars (1993) (0)
- Media Regulation and Control (1980) (0)
- Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of an Approximately 2. 2 Acre (0. 9 H) Area, for the Village of Moscow's Proposed Village Park in Washington Township, Clermont County, Ohio (2002) (0)
- Robert L. Morlan (1985) (0)
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