Author: James Q. Wilson / Topic: Government

Author:: James Q. Wilson
Publication Date:: 03-2006
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: When South Dakota passed a law banning all abortions save those that threaten the physical health of the mother, opponents of abortion were cheered and defenders of it outraged. I think both sides were mistaken.
Topic:: Civil Society, Government, Health, and Human Rights

Author:: James Q. Wilson
Publication Date:: 08-2006
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: When President George W. Bush said that America hopes to spread democracy to all the world, he was echoing a sentiment many people support. Though Americans do not put “extending democracy” near the top of their list of foreign policy objectives (preventing terrorism is their chief goal), few would deny that if popular rule is extended it would improve lives around the world. Democracy, of course, means rule by the people. But the devil is in the details. By one count, the number of democracies quintupled in the second half of the twentieth century, but there are freedom- loving and freedom-disdaining democracies. Fareed Zakaria calls the latter “illiberal democracies.” Among them are Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Ukraine, and Venezuela.
Topic:: International Relations, Democratization, and Government
Political Geography:: Pakistan, United States, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Venezuela

Author:: James Q. Wilson
Publication Date:: 12-2005
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: My fellow Americans, we are winning, and winning decisively, in Iraq and the Middle East. We defeated Saddam Hussein's army in just a few weeks. None of the disasters that many feared would follow our invasion occurred. Our troops did not have to fight door to door to take Baghdad. The Iraqi oil fields were not set on fire. There was no civil war between the Sunnis and the Shiites. There was no grave humanitarian crisis. Saddam Hussein was captured and is awaiting trial. His two murderous sons are dead. Most of the leading members of Saddam's regime have been captured or killed. After our easy military victory, we found ourselves inadequately prepared to defeat the terrorist insurgents, but now we are prevailing.
Topic:: Civil Society and Government
Political Geography:: United States, Middle East, and Baghdad

Author:: James Q. Wilson, James W. Ceaser, David Frum, Everett Carll Ladd, Alan Charles Kors, Christina Hoff Sommers, Virginia Postrel, and Joshua Muravchik
Publication Date:: 06-1998
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: The comedian Howie Mandel begins his speeches by clutching this little desk here and shouting: “Hey, if I'd known there was going to be a podium, I wouldn't have worn pants.” It's a well–worn joke, but I feel a certain proprietary claim to it. Howie Mandel is a fellow–Torontonian, and my father, in his first career as a dentist, fixed his teenage teeth.
Topic:: International Relations, Government, and Politics
Political Geography:: United States

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