Steven M. Teles is an American political scientist. He is a professor at
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...
, as well as a senior fellow at the
Niskanen Center. Notable writings include ''The Captured Economy: How The Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth and Increase Inequality'' with
Brink Lindsey, ''Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration'' with David Dagan, and ''The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement'', as well as the original paper about
Cost disease socialism with Samuel Hammond and Daniel Takash. He is also known for coining the term "
kludgeocracy" to describe the phenomenon of overly-complicated governmental solutions to social problems.
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Living people
American political scientists
Johns Hopkins University faculty
21st-century American non-fiction writers
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