American political scientist and public policy expert
Intensive community policing will be expensive. Attracting a sufficient number of well-qualified police officers will require higher pay scales, and providing those officers with the necessary training, direction, and support…
Recent criticism notwithstanding, George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson’s 1982 article, “Broken Windows,” makes two important points about criminal justice reform that are still relevant today. The economic and…
Once politics was about only a few things; today, it is about nearly everything. — James Q. Wilson There was never any respite from politics. There was no “safe zone.”…
More than just a top-notch scholar, James Q. Wilson played a critical role in advising presidents, as Tevi Troy reminds us in a piece for The American: Wilson actually served…
After American Enterprise Institute president Arthur C. Brooks enlightened a luncheon audience at the Civitas Institute’s Conservative Leadership Conference, Carolina Journal asked him for thoughts about his “mentor,” political scientist…
One of the nation’s most respected political scientists, James Q. Wilson, has died at age 80. The Locker Room focused on his last essay collection in December 2010. As science…
This Letters from an Ohio Farmer blog post hits the nail on the head, “Constitutional Lines.” …James Q. Wilson, one of the preeminent American political scientists of the last half…
Robert J. Samuelson’s column that Joe Coletti posted contains the following: “Once politics was about only a few things; today, it is about nearly everything,” writes the eminent political scientist…
James Q. Wilson has spent decades dissecting public policy ? filtering fact from fiction and seeking the course of action that will lead to the best results, not the course…
A report from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that nearly 4 out of 10 babies are now born out of wedlock. This has huge policy implications, as this…
UNC Economics professor Patrick Conway is right on target with his comment about what should come next for the UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity — John Edwards’ old…
You can tell from this Daily Tar Heel story that author, columnist, and Manhattan Institute scholar John McWhorter shook up the UNC audience Monday night by challenging their acceptance of…