American Government

Author Biographies

James Q. Wilson is Professor Emeritus of Management and Public Administration at UCLA and was previously Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard University. He has written more than a dozen books on the subjects of public policy, bureaucracy, and political philosophy. He is a past President of the American Political Science Association and he is the only political scientist to win three of the four lifetime achievement awards presented by the APSA.

John J. DiIulio, Jr. is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, former professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton and the former Director of the Brookings Institution's Center for Public Management. He is a leading scholar on crime policy and health care reform, and he was an advisor for Vice President Gore's "reinventing government" plan. He served the George W. Bush administration as director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.


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