No free photograph
James Q. Wilson
American political scientist and public policy expert · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1931 to 2012 · aged 80
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.
James Q. Wilson is read about 78 times a day, in 11 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 4 July 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Also in Deutsch
Awards
About this person
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.
