Kenneth Frederick Scheve Jr. is an American political economist. Scheve earned a degree in economics at the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. The main campu ...

in 1990, then worked in the finance sector. He completed a doctorate in political science at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 2000, 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 Torben Iversen is a Danish political economist, currently Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. In 2016, he was named BP Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics The London School of Econom ...

, and Gary King. 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 , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. Scheve returned to Yale as full professor of political science in 2006, then left to teach at Stanford University in 2012. He later rejoined the Yale faculty as Dean Acheson Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs. In 2020, Scheve was elected a member of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and ...

Selected publications

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scheve, Kenneth Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American political scientists 21st-century American economists Political economists Harvard University faculty Harvard University alumni Yale University faculty University of Michigan faculty University of Notre Dame alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences