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James Quinn Wilson (May 27, 1931 – March 2, 2012) was an American political scientist and an authority on public administration. Most of his career was spent as a professor at UCLA and Harvard University .
Portrait of Woodrow Wilson 1919. Woodrow Wilson is credited with the politics-administration dichotomy via his theories on public administration in his 1887 essay, "The Study of Administration". Wilson came up with a theory that politics and administration are inherently different and should be approached as such. [3]
Bureaucracy (/ b j ʊəˈr ɒ k r ə s i /; bure-OK-rə-see) is a system of organization where decisions are made by a body of non-elected officials. [1] Historically, a bureaucracy was a government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials. [2]
Bureaucracy, one of the five seasons of the Discordian calendar; Bureaucracy, a 1945 political treatise by Ludwig von Mises; Bureaucracy, a 1987 Infocom game by Douglas Adams; Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It, a 1989 book by James Q. Wilson; Celestial bureaucracy, the pantheon of Chinese mythology
That piece of work has contributed countless insight into the Public Administration Theory. Max Weber considered bureaucracy to be the most rational form of administration yet devised by man. In his writings he asserts that domination is exerted through administration and that for legal domination to take place bureaucracy is required.
American Government is a 2012 textbook, now in its seventeenth edition, by the noted public administration scholar James Q. Wilson and political scientist John J. DiIulio, Jr. DiIulio is a Democrat who served as the director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under president George W. Bush in 2001.
Quincy Wilson (center) made history as the youngest U.S. male track Olympian of all time when he competed in the 4x400-meter relay preliminary round at just 16 years old.
This list of public administration scholars includes notable theorists, academics, and researchers from public administration, public policy, and related fields such as economics, political science, management, administrative law.