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.
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