James Quinn Wilson Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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. He coauthored a leading university textbook on American government, as well as many scholarly books and articles, and op-ed essays. He gained national attention for a 1982 article introducing the broken windows theory. Wilson served on many national committees and boards, and was elected president of the American Political Science Association.
[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every topic I've written about begins as a question. How do police departments behave? Why do bureaucracies function the way they do? What moral intuitions do people have? How do courts make their decisions? What do blacks want from the political system? I can honestly say I didn't know the answers to those questions when I began looking into them.
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He was born in Denver, Colorado but grew up in Long Beach, California. Son of Claude Wilson, a salesman, and his homemaker mother Marie Wilson.
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He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree from Redlands University in the San Bernardino Valley, east of Los Angeles, California. He served in the United States Navy during the Korean War but not in combat. He earned a Master's Degree and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.
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He is survived by his wife, Roberta Evans Wilson, of North Andover, Massachusetts; a son, Matthew Wilson; a daughter, Annie Wilson Gilbert; a sister, Diane Wilson Gray; and give grandchildren.
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He taught at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1961. He later taught at the University of California in Los Angeles and at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.