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James Q. Wilson Papers Finding Aid James Q. Wilson Collection: 1949–2012 CP-760 PARDEE RAND GRADUATE SCHOOL The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND’s publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors. PRGS is unique in American higher education. It was founded in 1970 as one of the original eight graduate programs in public policy analysis. PRGS was the only program specializing in the Ph.D. It is also the only one based at a public policy research institute—the Santa Monica, California-based RAND Corporation—which invented many of the analytical tools of public policy analysis. ® RAND is a registered trademark. © Copyright 2013 RAND Corporation RAND OFFICES SANTA MONICA, CA • WASHINGTON, DC • PITTSBURGH, PA NEW ORLEANS, LA • JACKSON, MS • BOSTON, MA DOHA, QA • CAMBRIDGE, UK • BRUSSELS, BE www.rand.org www.prgs.edu 2 James Q. Wilson Papers Administrative Information • Title: James Q. Wilson Papers, 1949-2012 • Accession Number and/or Call Numbers: PRGS_1000 • Creator: Wilson, James Q. • Extent: 43 boxes • Repository: Pardee RAND Graduate School • 1776 Main Street • Santa Monica, CA 90401 • Acquisition Information: The collection was a gift from Roberta Wilson on 9 October 2012 • Conditions Governing Access/Restrictions: The collection contains restricted materials as noted within the finding aid; with these exceptions, the collection is open for qualified researchers. • Literary Copyright/Publication Rights: Pardee RAND Graduate School retains the literary rights to the material. In order to quote from, publish, or reproduce any of the manuscripts or visual materials, researchers must obtain formal permission from the office of the Director of Knowledge Services. In most instances, permission is given by RAND as owner of the physical property rights only, and researchers must also obtain permission from the holder of the literary rights. In some instances, RAND owns the literary rights, as well as the physical property rights. Researchers may contact RAND for further information. • Language: English • Preferred Citation: [Identification of Item and Enclosing Folder], James Q. Wilson Papers, Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, California. • Name of Cataloger/Date Completed: Brook Engebretson/15 October 2013 Biographical Note James Quinn Wilson (1931–2012) was born in Denver, Colorado, on 27 May 1931. The only child of Claude Wilson, a salesman, and Marie Quinn Wilson, a homemaker, he was raised in Long Beach, California, and attended Jordan High School. Wilson received a bachelor’s degree in political science (summa cum laude) from the University of Redlands in 1952. He served in the United States Navy from 1952 to 1955 before pursuing graduate work in political science at the University of Chicago, where he received a master’s in 1957 and doctorate in 1959, both from the department of political science. His doctoral dissertation was an analysis of the political behavior of African Americans in Chicago during the 1950s and was the basis for his first book, Negro Politics: The Search for Leadership (1960). Wilson was a faculty member of the Harvard University Department of Government from 1961 to 1987. He was appointed Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government in 1972 and served as chairman of the department from 1969 to 1973. He was also director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard from 1963 to 1966. 9 James Q. Wilson Papers From 1987 to 1997, he was James A. Collins Professor of Management and Public Policy at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). From 1998 to 2009, he was Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. From 2009 until his death, he was a Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College. Wilson was a prolific author of essays and book reviews and authored or coauthored 16 books, including City Politics (1963, with Edward C. Banfield), The Amateur Democrat (1966), Varieties of Police Behavior (1968), Political Organizations (1973), Thinking about Crime (1975), The Politics of Regulation (1980), Bureaucracy (1989), The Moral Sense (1993), The Marriage Problem (2002), and Understanding America (2008, with Peter H. Schuck). Wilson’s American Government: Institutions and Policies (with John J. Dilulio, Jr.) has gone through 13 editions and is one of the most widely used textbooks on American government and politics. Wilson chaired the White House Task Force on Crime in 1966 and the 1972–73 National Advisory Commission on Drug Abuse Prevention. He was a member of the Attorney General’s Task Force on Violent Crime in 1981, the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1985 to 1990, and the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2005. He served on the boards of the New England Electric System, Protection One, State Farm Mutual Insurance, the RAND Corporation, and the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He chaired the Council of Academic Advisors of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He received numerous awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA), including the James Madison Award for distinguished scholarly contribution to political science in 1990 and the John Gaus Award for “exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration” in 1994. From 1991 to 1992, he served as APSA’s president, for which he earned a Distinguished Service Certificate. In 2003, Wilson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award. In 2007, he received the Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. He was awarded honorary degrees from seven universities, including Harvard. He married Roberta Evans in New Haven, Connecticut, on 13 September 1952; they had two children, Matthew Wilson (born in 1960) and Annie Wilson Gilbert (born in 1964). Wilson died at the age of 80 on 2 March 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts, from complications of leukemia. 10 James Q. Wilson Papers Cataloger’s Note An acronym list is included at the end of the finding aid. Wilson’s library of books, many annotated, and his personal computer are in the Wilson Collection and located in the archives. His personal computer, containing correspondence, drafts of publications, and photographs, is unprocessed. Christopher H. Foreman, Jr., a student of Wilson, donated five pieces of correspondence he maintained with Wilson, two published articles by Wilson, a program to the Gold Honor Medal Awards of The National Institute of Social Sciences with a related letter of correspondence attached, and a copy of his book, Signals From the Hill: Congressional Oversight and the Challenge of Social Regulation, published by Yale University Press in 1988. These items have been integrated into the collection and are noted in brackets. Scope and Content Note The James Q. Wilson Papers, 1940–2012 (43 boxes) document the career of Wilson as a political science professor at Harvard University, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), and Pepperdine University; his speeches, research, and writing; and his advisory roles, personal, and professional relationships. Effort was made to maintain the original order in which the collection arrived at Pardee RAND Graduate School and the arrangement reflects Wilson’s organization of materials largely by subject, project, correspondent, or institution. The collection is divided into seven series: Consulting Files, Personal Files, Publications and Writings, Research Files, Speeches and Lectures, Teaching/University Affiliation Files, and Oversize. The bulk of collection materials date from the 1960s to 2012 and consists of advertisements, agreements, annual reports, awards and degrees, by-laws, charts and graphs, clippings, course materials, correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, membership lists, memoranda, notes, organization charts, papers, presentation materials, programs, publications, reports, speeches and lectures, receipts, reprints, syllabi, and writings. As the collection is arranged by both subject and format of the materials, researchers should be aware that materials—especially correspondence, lectures, and research materials—are dispersed through the series. Correspondence is divided into incoming, outgoing, and outgoing and incoming, and arranged alphabetically by correspondent; individuals are represented in only one category within a series. The item count indicates pieces of correspondence, not including attachments. Newspaper clippings were replaced with photocopies; originals are stored separately. 11 James Q. Wilson Papers The collection consists of the following series, described in detail within this document: • Series 1: Consulting Files, 1965, 1971-1972, 1974, 1976-1977, 1979, 1982, ca. 1985, 1990-2012, n.d. • Series 1.1: Consulting Files, 1999-2005, 2008, n.d. RESTRICTED • Series 2: Personal Files, 1965-2012, n.d. • Series 2.2: Personal Files, 1980, 1992-1993, 1999, 2009-2011 RESTRICTED • Series 3: Publications and Writings, 1960-2012, n.d. • Series 4: Speeches and Lectures, 1964-1965, 1969, 1971-1974, 1976, 1979-1983, 1985, 1987-2002, 2011-2012, n.d. • Series 5: Research Files, 1949, 1951, 1956-1959, 1961-1966, 1968-1977, 1979-1983, 1985-2012, n.d. • Series 6: Teaching/University Affiliation Files, 1950, 1954, 1962, 1965, 1967, 1970- 1973, 1975-2011,
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