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James Q. Wilson

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American political scientist and public policy expert

United StatesAcademicsLived 1931 to 2012 · aged 80
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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.

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2003Presidential Medal of Freedom
1997Francis Boyer Award
1994John Gaus Award
Guggenheim Fellowship

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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 (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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United States
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Academics
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Academic
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deceased
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Lived 1931 to 2012 · aged 80
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