Paul D. Moreno is William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History at Hillsdale College.

In The Bureaucrat kings: the Origins and Underpinnings of America's Bureaucratic State, Paul Moreno indicts the American administrative state and our new ruling class, its chief beneficiary. A professor of history at Hillsdale College, he writes as a historian but also a citizen in rejecting the inherent beneficence or historical inevitability of social "reform" and "progress." Alert to the profound effect the idea of progress has had on popular government, he nonetheless judges historical and political changes in light of an unchanging standard of the public good, or justice, an idea inherent in the founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

• Preface: The New Ruling Class1 The Roots of the Founders' Constitution2 A Limited State: The American Government's First Century3 The First Steps toward a Bureaucratic State, 1865–18994 The First Wave of the Administrative State: The Progressive Era, 1900–19305 The Second Wave: The New Deal Era, 1930–19456 The Third Wave: The Great Society and the New Social Regulation, 1945–19757 The Fourth Wave: From Partial Deregulation to Reregulation, 1975–2010Conclusion: The Way OutNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

Paul D. Moreno is William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History at Hillsdale College.

In The Bureaucrat kings: the Origins and Underpinnings of America's Bureaucratic State, Paul Moreno indicts the American administrative state and our new ruling class, its chief beneficiary. A professor of history at Hillsdale College, he writes as a historian but also a citizen in rejecting the inherent beneficence or historical inevitability of social "reform" and "progress." Alert to the profound effect the idea of progress has had on popular government, he nonetheless judges historical and political changes in light of an unchanging standard of the public good, or justice, an idea inherent in the founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

• Preface: The New Ruling Class1 The Roots of the Founders' Constitution2 A Limited State: The American Government's First Century3 The First Steps toward a Bureaucratic State, 1865–18994 The First Wave of the Administrative State: The Progressive Era, 1900–19305 The Second Wave: The New Deal Era, 1930–19456 The Third Wave: The Great Society and the New Social Regulation, 1945–19757 The Fourth Wave: From Partial Deregulation to Reregulation, 1975–2010Conclusion: The Way OutNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

Paul D. Moreno is William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History at Hillsdale College.

In The Bureaucrat kings: the Origins and Underpinnings of America's Bureaucratic State, Paul Moreno indicts the American administrative state and our new ruling class, its chief beneficiary. A professor of history at Hillsdale College, he writes as a historian but also a citizen in rejecting the inherent beneficence or historical inevitability of social "reform" and "progress." Alert to the profound effect the idea of progress has had on popular government, he nonetheless judges historical and political changes in light of an unchanging standard of the public good, or justice, an idea inherent in the founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

• Preface: The New Ruling Class1 The Roots of the Founders' Constitution2 A Limited State: The American Government's First Century3 The First Steps toward a Bureaucratic State, 1865–18994 The First Wave of the Administrative State: The Progressive Era, 1900–19305 The Second Wave: The New Deal Era, 1930–19456 The Third Wave: The Great Society and the New Social Regulation, 1945–19757 The Fourth Wave: From Partial Deregulation to Reregulation, 1975–2010Conclusion: The Way OutNotesSelect BibliographyIndex