Kenneth Scheve

Kenneth Frederick Scheve Jr. is an American political economist.

Scheve earned a degree in economics at the University of Notre Dame in 1990, then worked in the finance sector.^[1] He completed a doctorate in political science at Harvard University in 2000,^[2][1] where his doctoral thesis, Casting Votes in the Global Economy: Public Opinion and Voting Behavior in Open Economies, was advised by James E. Alt, Torben Iversen, and Gary King.^[3] Scheve accepted an assistant professorship in political science at Yale University from 2001 to 2004, when he was named associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan.^[1] Scheve returned to Yale as full professor of political science in 2006,^[1] then left to teach at Stanford University in 2012.^[2][1] He later rejoined the Yale faculty as Dean Acheson Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs.^[4] In 2020, Scheve was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[5] On May 14, 2025, he returned to his undergraduate alma mater as Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame.^[6]

Selected publications

• Scheve, Kenneth; Stasavage, David (2016). Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691165455.^[7]