Joseph Postell

About Joseph Postell

Joseph Postell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. His research focuses primarily on regulation, administrative law, and the administrative state. He is the editor, with Bradley C.S. Watson, of Rediscovering Political Economy (Lexington Books, 2012).

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Reforming the Administrative State with Roscoe Pound

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The excesses of the modern administrative state are becoming a central issue in contemporary American political debates.  From the National Labor Relations Board’s intervention in Boeing’s decision to move some of its operations to South Carolina, to the Affordable Care …

The Relentless Dilemmas of Progressivism

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The 1912 election fundamentally transformed American politics.  This transformation and the events which led to it are the subject of Sidney Milkis’s excellent book Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy.  Milkis’s book is both …


Is the Hayekian Response to “Libertarian Paternalism” Sufficient?