Doig, Jameson W. 1933-

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DOIG, Jameson W. 1933-

PERSONAL: Born June 12, 1933, in Oakland, CA; son of James Rufus and Mary (Jameson) Doig; married Joan Nishimoto, October 8, 1955; children: Rachel, Stephen, Sarah. Education: Dartmouth College, B.A., 1954; Princeton University, M.P.A., 1958,M.A., 1959, Ph.D., 1961.

ADDRESSES: Home—122 Moore St., Princeton, NJ08540. Office—Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 433 Robertson, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. E-mail—jimdoig@princeton. edu.

CAREER: Educator and author. New Jersey Republican Committee, research assistant, 1957; Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, research assistant and research associate, 1959-61; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, assistant professor, 1961-67, associate professor, 1967-70, professor of politics and public affairs in department of politics and at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, beginning 1970, associate dean, 1972-73, director of research program in criminal justice, 1973-93, director of graduate studies in politics department, 1988-90, chair of undergraduate studies, 1991-94, chair of politics department, 1997-2000. Visiting professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, 1967-68, 1970-72. Member of advisory committee, Office of Governor of New Jersey, 1965-70; committee chairman, New Jersey Governor's Council against Crime, 1967-70; member of Correctional Master Plan Policy Council, 1974-77, and advisory council on corrections, 1977-82 (both New Jersey); vice chairman of New Jersey Department of Corrections, 1980-82; member of advisory committee, American Bar Association, 1974-78; member of Supreme Court task forces on probation and on minority concerns, 1981-82, 1985-90; member of advisory committee, Vera Institute of Justice, 1986-92; member of advisory committee, National Research Council's Transportation Research Board, 1990-92; member of advisory board, Taubman Center, Harvard University. Consultant to Fels Fund, 1966-68, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, 1969-70, Guggenheim Foundation, beginning 1970, Center for Administrative Justice, 1972-77, governor of New Jersey on revision of parole statutes, 1975-77, Police Foundation, 1977-78, National Prison Overcrowding Project, 1983, Lavenburg Foundation, 1983-90, Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, 1990-96, and Taubman Center at Harvard University, 1996. Member of board of directors, New Jersey Association on Correction, 1971-74, 1980-82, New Jersey Bar Institute and Law Center, 1974-78, National Center for Administrative Justice, 1979-82, and S. Forty Corp., 1980-82. Military service: U.S. Navy, 1954-56; became lieutenant junior grade.

MEMBER: American Political Science Association, American Society for Public Administration (member of executive committee of criminal justice section, 1977-81), American Correctional Association, American Society of Criminology, Society for the History of Technology, Law and Society Association, Policy Studies Organization, Canadian Studies Association, Phi Beta Kappa.

AWARDS, HONORS: Herbert Kaufman Award, American Political Science Association, 1989; A. P. Usher Prize, Society for the History of Technology, 1995; A. Wildavsky award, 1997.

WRITINGS:

(Coauthor) Personnel for Foreign Affairs: A Commentary on the Report of the Herter Committee on Foreign Affairs Personnel, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ), 1963.

(With Dean E. Mann) The Assistant Secretaries, Brookings Institution (Washington, DC), 1965.

Metropolitan Transportation Politics and the New York Region, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 1966.

(With David T. Stanley and Mann) Men Who Govern, Brookings Institution (Washington, DC), 1967.

(With M. N. Danielson) New York: The Politics of Urban Regional Development, University of California Press (Los Angeles, CA), 1982.

(Editor and contributor) Criminal Corrections: Ideals and Realities, Lexington-Heath (Lexington, MA), 1983.

(Coeditor and contributor) Leadership and Innovation: A Biographical Perspective on Entrepreneurs, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1987, 2nd edition, 1990.

(Coeditor and contributor) Combating Corruption/Encouraging Ethics, American Society for Public Administration (Washington, DC), 1990.

Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 2000.

Contributor to numerous books, including Governing the States and Localities, edited by Duane Lockard, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1969; Agenda for a City, 1970; Metropolitan Politics, 1971; Urban Politics and Public Policy, edited by S. M. Davidson and P. E. Peterson, Praeger (New York, NY), 1973; Crime and Criminal Justice, 1975; Public Administration and Public Policy, edited by G. Frederickson and C. Wise, Lexington-Heath (Lexington, MA), 1977; Politics and Administration: Woodrow Wilson and American Public Administration, edited by J. Rabin and J. Bowman, Dekker (New York, NY), 1984; Politics and Urban Development, 1987; Robert Moses, edited by J. P. Krieg, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1989; Public Authorities and Public Policy, 1991; Landscape of Modernity, 1992; Studies in American Political Development, 1993; Technology and Culture, 1994; and Building the Public City, 1995. Also contributor of reviews and articles to periodicals, including American Political Science Review, Political Science Quarterly, Public Policy, Urban Studies, Education and Urban Sociology, Public Administration Review, and Criminal Justice Ethics.

SIDELIGHTS: Jameson W. Doig is a political scientist and expert on such areas as criminal justice and public and corporate administration. He has written extensively on these subjects in his books and articles for professional journals. In one such publication, Leadership and Innovation: A Biographical Perspective on Entrepreneurs, Doig and his coeditor compiled the biographies of thirteen public leaders who over the years successfully employed an entrepreneurial style in organizing and running an assortment of organizations. "To explore the proposition that leaders can 'make a difference,' Doig and Hargrove have assembled excellent short biographies of thirteen such individuals," wrote a reviewer for Choice. "In a brief introductory chapter, the editors identify some of the strategies and factors that contributed to or inhibited these leaders' success." John N. Ingham remarked in the Journal of American History that "the chapters on rhetorical leaders … were fascinating, and the chapter on Adm. Hyman Rickover by Eugene Lewis was absolutely superb. The essays all demonstrated what the editors had promised: that those administrators had indeed made a difference."

More recently, Doig completed his Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority, a book of particular interest in the wake of the destruction of the World Trade Center although it was published before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Here, the author chronicles the rise of the Port Authority from 1921 to the 1950s, with particular focus on three men: chief counsel Henry Cohen, engineer Othmar H. Ammann, and Robert Moses, chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority. Originally a massive bureaucracy with little political power, the Port Authority grew to have immense influence on New York and New Jersey as it constructed bridges, tunnels, and bus terminals. Doig addresses the more troubling aspects of such power being wielded by an agency removed from democratic accountability. By the 1950s the power of the Port Authority was again on the wane, but, as Doig notes in an epilogue, it would still wield influence over the future of the World Trade Center site. "This stirring, keenly-written history is filled with insiders' details and jousts with mayors, governors, and even a president," remarked Joel Schwartz in Political Science Quarterly, although Schwartz added that "the story is weakened by Doig's acceptance of the Authority's claims of business efficiency, which is ballyhooed by its public relations staff but not supported by any objective criteria." Nevertheless, Planning contributor Harold Henderson called Empire on the Hudson a "richly textured book [that] is institutional history at its best."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

Choice, July-August, review of Leadership and Innovation: A Biographical Perspective on Entrepreneurs, 1988.

Journal of American History, December, 1988.

New York Review of Books, March 14, 2002, Michael Tomasky, "The Story behind the Towers," p. 8.

Planning, August, 2001, Harold Henderson, review of Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority, p. 37.

Political Science Quarterly, winter, 2001, Joel Schwartz, review of Empire on the Hudson, p. 677.

Urban Studies, June, 2002, Peter Newman, review of Empire on the Hudson, p. 1269.