John Marini is an American political scientist. He is a Professor of Political Science at the

University of Nevada, Reno The University of Nevada, Reno (Nevada, the University of Nevada, or UNR) is a public land-grant research university in Reno, Nevada. It is the state's flagship public university and primary land grant institution. It was founded on October 12 ...

, and a senior fellow at the

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. He is the author of two books about the administrative state and the co-editor of two more books.

Early life

John Marini earned a PhD from the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The inst ...

Career

Marini taught Political Science at the

University of Dallas The University of Dallas is a private Catholic university in Irving, Texas. Established in 1956, it is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The university comprises four academic units: the Braniff Graduate School ...

and

Ohio University Ohio University is a public research university in Athens, Ohio. The first university chartered by an Act of Congress and the first to be chartered in Ohio, the university was chartered in 1787 by the Congress of the Confederation and subseq ...

. He is now a full professor at the

. He is also a senior fellow at the

, a

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. Marini is the editor of two books about the

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, and the author of two more books about the American administrative state. In ''The Politics Of Budget Control: Congress, The Presidency And Growth Of The Administrative State'', he argues that the growth of governmental bureaucracy is unlimited due to the absence of budgetary restraints, and that it is unconstitutional because it arrogates all powers. He adds that Congress is the main locus of the administrative state. In a review for the ''Journal of Political Analysis and Management'', William A. Niskanen of the

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suggested it was "an elegant, profound, and disturbing book", but he regretted the lack of quantitative data or

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theory in Marini's analysis. In ''Unmasking the Administrative State: The Crisis of American Politics in the Twenty-First Century'', Marini writes about the growth of the administrative state at the expense of the

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over the course of the twentieth century, with the challenges it raises and the theoretical tools that could curtail it. For Marini, the administrative state is antithetical to America's populist tradition of self-government. In an essay for the ''

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'' published in July 2016 and entitled ''Donald Trump and the American Crisis'', Marini suggested then-presidential candidate

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should be commended for his recognition that neither the

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nor the Republican Party represented the American people any more.

Works

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References

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