Joseph Postell
| Joseph Postell | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Hillsdale College |
| Education: | •Ashland University •University of Dallas |
Joseph Postell is an American political theorist, professor, and author. He is an associate professor of politics at Hillsdale College, as of May 2024. From August 2017 through August 2020, he was an associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Government and the Individual. He was a 2017-2018 visiting fellow in American political thought at The Heritage Foundation. He is the author of Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State's Challenge to Constitutional Government. According to his faculty profile page on the University of Colorado website, Postell's areas of interest include political theory, American political thought, the presidency, the U.S. Congress, administrative law, and public administration.[1][2][3]
Career
Below is a summary of Postell's education and career:[1]
Academic degrees:
- B.A. (2001), Ashland University
- M.A. (2004), University of Dallas
- Ph.D. (2010), University of Dallas
Professional positions and honors
- Associate professor, Hillsdale College
- Associate professor, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, 2017-2020
- Visiting fellow in American political thought, The Heritage Foundation, 2017-2018
Academic scholarship
The following table contains a selection of works by Postell about the administrative state and related issues. Any links in the table below feature Ballotpedia summaries of that scholarly work.
| Works related to the administrative state | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Source | ||
| "The Myth of the State Nondelegation Doctrines" | Administrative Law Review (2022) | ||
| "The Controlling Power of Organization: Constitutional Conservatism and the Defense of Strong Parties" | American Citizenship and Constitutionalism in Principle and Practice (2022) | ||
| AEI Press (2022) | |||
| "The Ambiguity of Expertise in the Administrative State" | Social Philosophy and Policy (2021) | ||
| "The Decision of 1946: The Legislative Reorganization and Administrative Procedure Acts" | George Mason Law Review (2021) | ||
| "The Misunderstood Thomas Cooley: Regulation from the Founding to the ICC" | Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy (2020) | ||
| "The Nondelegation Doctrine After Gundy" | NYU Journal of Law and Liberty (2019) | ||
| "Not Dead Yet—Or Never Born? The Reality of the Nondelegation Doctrine" | Constitutional Studies (2018) | ||
| "Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State’s Challenge to Constitutional Government" | University of Missouri (2017) | ||
| ""'The People Surrender Nothing': Social Compact Theory, Republicanism, and the Modern Administrative State" by Joseph Postell (2016)" | Missouri Law Review (2016) | ||
| "Regulation during the American Founding: Achieving Liberalism and Republicanism" | American Political Thought (2016) | ||
| ""From Administrative State to Constitutional Government" by Joseph Postell (2012)" | The Heritage Foundation (2012) | ||
| "The Anti-New Deal Progressive: Roscoe Pound's Alternative Administrative State" | The Review of Politics (2012) | ||
See also
- Ballotpedia's administrative state coverage
- Administrative State Bibliography
- Scholarly work related to the administrative state
External links
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