Kenneth Scheve

Kenneth Scheve is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. He also serves as the Co-Director of the Leitner Program in International & Comparative Political Economy and teaches courses in political economy and quantitative methods. His research interests are in political economy and comparative political behavior. His research has been published in numerous academic journals including the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Economics & Politics, International Organization, the Journal of International Economics, the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and World Politics. He is also the author, with Matthew Slaughter, of Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers (Institute for International Economics, 2001) examining American public opinion about the liberalization of trade, immigration, and foreign direct investment policies. His current research projects include studying the mass politics of globalization, the behavioral foundations of economic policy opinions, and the long-run determinants of redistributive policymaking. He is currently writing a book with David Stasavage examining the interaction between mass warfare, fairness, and the development of progressive taxation in the 19th and 20th centuries. Professor Scheve received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000.

Campus address: 115 Prospect St., Rosenkranz Hall, Room 435
Phone: 432-6109
Email: kenneth.scheve@yale.edu
Personal Web Page: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ks298/
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