• James Quinn Wilson (May 27, 1931 – March 2, 2012) was an American political scientist and an authority on public administration. Most of his career was...
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  • James Wilson may refer to: James Wilson (Upper Canada politician) (1770–1847), English-born farmer and political figure in Upper Canada James Crocket...
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  • its seventeenth edition, by the noted public administration scholar James Q. Wilson and political scientist John J. DiIulio, Jr. DiIulio is a Democrat...
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    The theory was introduced in a 1982 article by social scientists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling. It was popularized in the 1990s by New York...
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  • Crime and Human Nature (category Books by James Q. Wilson)
    causes of crime by the political scientist James Q. Wilson and the psychologist Richard Herrnstein. Wilson and Herrnstein present and critique almost...
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  • James Evan Wilson, M.D., is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama House. He is played by Robert Sean Leonard. The character first appears in...
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  • Dwight Waldo Gary Wamsley Kenneth F. Warren Max Weber Leonard D. White Aaron Wildavsky William F. Willoughby James Q. Wilson Woodrow Wilson Deil S. Wright...
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  • Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It, a 1989 book by James Q. Wilson Celestial bureaucracy, the pantheon of Chinese mythology Red tape,...
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  • of broken windows theory, which was first advocated by his mentee James Q. Wilson in an Atlantic Monthly article entitled "Broken Windows". One of the...
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    policing was another, related approach introduced in the 1980s by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, who suggested that police should pay greater...
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    progress and economic growth"—things he argues have led to this decay. James Q. Wilson, in a 1998 New York Times op-ed, wrote: "If it is the work of a madman...
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  • been referred to as "quality-of-life crimes." American sociologist James Q. Wilson encapsulated this argument as the broken windows theory, which asserts...
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  • of numerous articles, he developed the broken windows theory with James Q. Wilson and Kelling's wife, Catherine M. Coles that led to the mass incarceration...
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    Ohio. Wilson's paternal grandfather James Wilson published a pro-tariff and anti-slavery newspaper, The Western Herald and Gazette. Wilson's maternal...
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    movement.") Also, the council members Robert George, Francis Fukuyama and James Q. Wilson debated with stark disagreement their opposing points of view on the...
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  • Crime and Human Nature: The Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime, James Q. Wilson, Richard J. Herrnstein, The Free Press 1985 ISBN 0-684-85266-7 Herrnstein...
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  • Center, called the book "excellent and important." Political scientist James Q. Wilson, in The Wall Street Journal, called the book "a masterly effort to...
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    Members have included Buckely, Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Robert H. Bork, James Q. Wilson, and Clare Booth Luce. Recipients of the group's annual "Victor Navasky...
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  • Fund—donated $20,000 to Goetz's defense. Harvard Professor of Government James Q. Wilson explained the broad sentiment by saying, "It may simply indicate that...
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  • and anti-social behavior "Broken Windows", 1982 magazine article by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling that originated the broken windows theory Fixing...
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  • Askey–Wilson polynomials (or q-Wilson polynomials) are a family of orthogonal polynomials introduced by Askey and Wilson (1985) as q-analogs of the Wilson polynomials...
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    Ronald Coase, Martin Feldstein, Milton Friedman, Roscoe Pound, and James Q. Wilson.[citation needed] AEA's early work in Washington, D.C. involved commissioning...
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  • US cultural magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, published an article by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling about the broken windows theory of crime. Their...
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    Chicago schools and was not revived until the 1970s with the writings of James Q. Wilson, Gary Becker's 1965 article Crime and Punishment and George Stigler's...
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  • theory, named after a 1982 Atlantic Monthly article "Broken Windows" by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling. Senior fellow Heather Mac Donald argues that...
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  • such as Hobbes would not be socially acceptable. Political scientist James Q. Wilson, in a paean to Calvin and Hobbes upon Watterson's decision to end the...
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    Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile OBE KCSG (/ˈsævɪl/; 31 October 1926 – 29 October 2011) was an English media personality and DJ. He hosted the BBC shows...
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  • twentieth film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It was directed by Lee Tamahori, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli...
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    the so-called period of affluence, prompting the Right Realism of James Q. Wilson and his associates in the United States who argued that the criminal...
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  • Foote.1935. Negro Politicians: The Rise of Negro Politics in Chicago. Wilson, James Q. 1960. Negro Politics: The Search for Leadership. Grimshaw, William...
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