Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powers—exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers.

(1957) and a Ph. Wilson was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and a member of the International Council of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation. (2010 with John J.

A Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University and a senior fellow at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College he was a co-author of the 1982 article introducing the broken windows theory. James Quinn Wilson (May 27 1931 – March 2 2012) was an American academic political scientist and an authority on public administration.