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The Collection includes nearly 1,400 books from his personal collection and an archival collection of approximately 20 linear feet of papers that RAND Knowledge Services has cataloged for the benefit of the research community. A finding aid is available as a free, downloadable PDF to help researchers explore the collection.

Finding Aid for the James Q. Wilson Collection: 1949–2012 (PDF)

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James Q. Wilson, PRGS, and RAND

Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003, James Q. Wilson was a long-time member of the Pardee RAND Graduate School's Board of Governors, received an honorary degree from the school in 2004, and served as a RAND Corporation trustee from 1994 to 2004.

"Jim was a towering intellectual figure at RAND," said Michael Rich, president and CEO of RAND. "He was a frequent collaborator — and at times a critic. He made RAND a better institution. He was a scholar in his own right, and not only helped govern the institution but often formally reviewed our research."

PRGS dean Susan Marquis still uses Wilson's classic 1989 textbook Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It when teaching doctoral students today.

"Jim's legacy of ideas and ideals will be carried on through his enduring scholarship, and through the newly-established James Q. Wilson Dissertation Award and the James Q. Wilson Public Policy collection at PRGS," Marquis said.

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