Steven Teles | |
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 Steven Teles in 2019 | |
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Steven M. Teles is an American political scientist. He is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, as well as a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center. [1] [2] Notable writings include The Captured Economy: How The Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth and Increase Inequality with Brink Lindsey, [3] [4] Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration with David Dagan, [5] [6] and The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement, [7] as well as the original paper about Cost disease socialism with Samuel Hammond and Daniel Takash. [8] He is also known for coining the term "kludgeocracy" to describe the phenomenon of overly-complicated governmental solutions to social problems. [9] [10]
