Bureaucracy in America

Joseph Postell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, where he teaches courses in Administrative Law, American political thought and American political institutions, particularly Congress and political parties.  He received his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Dallas.    Postell is the editor (with Bradley C.S. Watson) of Rediscovering Political Economy (Lexington, 2011) and (with Johnathan O’Neill) Toward an American Conservatism: Constitutional Conservatism during the Progressive Era.  He has published scholarly articles in The Review of Politics, American Political Thought, and Perspectives on Political Science, and has written for a variety of popular publications including the Claremont Review of Books, the Washington Times, and National Review.  He currently resides in Colorado Springs, CO.

Introduction
Chapter 1 – An Improved Science of Administration: Administration and the American Founding
Chapter 2 – Well-Regulated and Free: Administration and Constitutionalism in the Early Republic
Chapter 3 – Executive-Centered Administration: Administrative Law and Constitutionalism during the Jacksonian Era
Chapter 4 – The Beginning of Bureaucracy? Administrative Power after the Civil War
Chapter 5 – A New Science of Administration: Progressivism and the Administrative State
Chapter 6 – The Crisis of Legitimacy: The New Deal Challenge to American Constitutionalism
Chapter 7 – “A Surrogate Political Process”: The 1970s Administrative Law Revolution
Chapter 8 – The Conservative Counterrevolution? The Rise of a Jurisprudence of Deference
Conclusion – The Ongoing Crisis of Legitimacy