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James Q. Wilson

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About James Q. Wilson

James Quinn Wilson was an American political scientist and an authority on public administration. Most of his career was spent as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (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 and the M…

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Topics: Government Peace
Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many differ…