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  2. James Q. Wilson - Wikipedia

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    From 1961 to 1987, he was the Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard University. His 1975 book Thinking About Crime put forward a novel theory of incapacitation as the most effective explanation for the reduction in crime rates observed where longer prison sentences were the norm. Criminals might not be deterred by the threat of longer ...

  3. The Crisis of Democracy - Wikipedia

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    The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies is a key report written in 1975 by Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, and Joji Watanuki for the Trilateral Commission. In the same year, it was republished as a book by the New York University Press.

  4. Labour government, 1974–1979 - Wikipedia

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    To raise the living standards of those dependent on national insurance benefits, the government index-linked short-term benefits to the rate of inflation, while pensions and long-term benefits were tied to increases in prices or earnings, whichever was higher. [4] In 1975, a State Earnings Related Pension Scheme (SERPS) was introduced. A new ...

  5. Church Committee - Wikipedia

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    Church Committee report (Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence; PDF) Church Committee report (Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans; PDF) The Church Committee (formally the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities) was a US Senate select committee in 1975 that investigated abuses by the Central ...

  6. Alleged CIA involvement in the Whitlam dismissal - Wikipedia

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    Whitlam instantly dismissed ASIS Director-General Bill Robertson in 1975 after discovering ASIS, along with the CIA, [40] had assisted the Timorese Democratic Union in an attempted coup against the Portuguese administration in Timor-Leste, without informing Whitlam's government. [36] In the second half of 1975, Whitlam learned of rumours that ...

  7. Philip Agee - Wikipedia

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    Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (/ ˈ eɪ dʒ i /; January 19, 1935 – January 7, 2008) [1] was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer and writer of the 1975 book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, [2] detailing his experiences in the CIA.

  8. James M. Buchanan - Wikipedia

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    In his 1975 book, The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan, which has been described as his magnum opus, Buchanan examined the concept of a social contract. [36] In The Limits of Liberty Buchanan did support some redistribution; his proposed social contract of a "productive" state includes tax-financed goods and some social ...

  9. James R. Schlesinger - Wikipedia

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    James Rodney Schlesinger (February 15, 1929 – March 27, 2014) was an American economist and public servant who was best known for serving as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.