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Overview

David Stasavage is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily spans social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, demography, and gender studies.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • "Democracy, Autocracy, and Emergency Threats: Lessons for COVID-19 From the Last Thousand Years" (2020), International Organization
  • "Origins of Early Democracy" (2020), American Political Science Review
  • "Equal Treatment and the Inelasticity of Tax Policy to Rising Inequality" (2022), Comparative Political Studies
  • "Foundations of a New Democracy: Schooling, Inequality, and Voting in the Early Republic" (2022), American Political Science Review
  • "Democracy, Inequality, and Antitrust" (2023), SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors include Kenneth F. Scheve, Ali Ahmed, Helen V. Milner, Nita Rudra, and Jessica Weeks. The collaboration record shows strong ties particularly with Kenneth F. Scheve and Ali Ahmed.

Stasavage frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • International Organization
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Politics
  • American Political Science Review

Their work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Historical Economic and Social Studies
  • Islamic Studies and History
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences

In addition to articles, the scientist has published books with Princeton University Press. Among them is "The Decline and Rise of Democracy" (2020), which appears in multiple editions with varying citation counts.

In recognition of their academic contributions, David Stasavage was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015.

Best Publications

  • The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy

    Philip Keefer;David Stasavage

  • Democracy and education spending in Africa

    David Stasavage

  • Religion and Preferences for Social Insurance

    Kenneth Scheve;David Stasavage

  • Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain 1688-1789

    David Stasavage

  • Open-Door or Closed-Door? Transparency in Domestic and International Bargaining

    David Stasavage

  • States of Credit

    David Stasavage

  • States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities

    David Stasavage

  • What Democracy Does (and Doesn’t Do) for Basic Services: School Fees, School Inputs, and African Elections

    Robin Harding;David Stasavage

  • The Conscription of Wealth: Mass Warfare and the Demand for Progressive Taxation

    Kenneth Scheve;David Stasavage

  • Does It Pay to Be Transparent? International Evidence from Central Bank Forecasts

    Georgios Chortareas;David Stasavage;Gabriel Sterne

  • Democracy, War, and Wealth: Lessons from Two Centuries of Inheritance Taxation

    Kenneth Scheve;David Stasavage

  • Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe

    Kenneth F. Scheve;David Stasavage

  • Checks and balances, private information, and the credibility of monetary commitments

    Philip Keefer;David Stasavage

  • Checks and Balances, Private Information, and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments

    Philip Keefer;David Stasavage

  • Private Investment and Political Institutions

    David Stasavage

  • Credible Commitment in Early Modern Europe: North and Weingast Revisited

    David Stasavage

  • Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State

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  • Polarization and Publicity: Rethinking the Benefits of Deliberative Democracy

    David Stasavage

  • Institutions, Partisanship, and Inequality in the Long Run

    Kenneth Scheve;David Stasavage

  • Taxing the Rich

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  • Publicity of Debate and the Incentive to Dissent: Evidence from the US Federal Reserve

    Ellen E. Meade;David Stasavage

  • When distance mattered: Geographic scale and the development of european representative assemblies

    David Stasavage

  • A framework for the analysis of corruption

    A.W. Goudie;David Stasavage

  • Transparency, Democratic Accountability, and the Economic Consequences of Monetary Institutions

    David Stasavage

  • The role of democracy in Uganda's move to universal primary education

    David Stasavage

  • Partisan politics and public debt: The importance of the 'Whig Supremacy' for Britain's financial revolution

    David Stasavage

  • Wealth Inequality and Democracy

    Kenneth F. Scheve;David Stasavage

  • Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: A Model of Credible Commitment under Representative Government

    David Stasavage

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth Scheve
Kenneth Scheve University of Notre Dame
Philip Keefer
Philip Keefer Inter-American Development Bank
Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty Paris School of Economics

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