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David Stasavage
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OccupationPolitical scientist, university teacher Edit this on Wikidata
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Awards
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015) Edit this on Wikidata
Websitehttps://stasavage.com/ Edit this on Wikidata

David Stasavage is an American political scientist known for his work on democracy and political economy.[1] He is the Dean for the Social Sciences and the Julius Silver Professor at New York University's Department of Politics and an affiliated professor in NYU's School of Law.[2] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015.[1]

Education and early career

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Stasavage earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1989, then obtained his doctorate from Harvard University in 1995.[3][2] He subsequently went to Europe, working successively for the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Centre for the Study of African Economies, and the Bank of England.[4]

Academic career

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Stasavage began teaching as a faculty associate within the London School of Economics in 1999. By 2005, his final year at the LSE, Stasavage had acquired the rank of reader. Stasavage returned to the United States in 2006, as an associate professor at New York University. In 2009, Stasavage was appointed to a full professorship. Since 2015, he has served as Julius Silver Professor of Politics.[4][2] Stasavage was later appointed dean for the social sciences.[2]

Stasavage carries out data driven research on the historical development of state institutions including Western Europe and Africa. He has written on topics including democracy, political economy, development economics, public credit, central banks, education policy, welfare, and income inequality.[1]

In Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688-1789 (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Stasavage modeled connections between public debt and representative assemblies and their relationships with the fiscal credibility of governments in the eighteenth century.[5] In States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities (Princeton University Press, 2011)[6] he further examined the development of representative assemblies and of public borrowing in Europe, during the medieval and early modern eras.[7] In 2012, States of Credit won the Award for the Best Book in European Politics and Society from Section 21 (European Politics and Society) of the American Political Science Association.[8]

In Taxing the Rich (Princeton University Press, 2016)[9] Stasavage and Kenneth F. Scheve examined democracy and taxation, with particular attention to conceptions of fairness and possible mechanisms underlying progressive taxation.[10] In The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today (Princeton University Press, 2020) he takes an institutional approach to the interaction of state and societal actors, to identify and examine the development of both early and modern democracies.[11][12]

Honors

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In 2015, Stasavage was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1] As of July 2023, Stasavage became co-editor of the Annual Review of Political Science.[13]

Selected publications

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Books

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  • Stasavage, David (2004). Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511510557. ISBN 9780511510557.[5]
  • Stasavage, David (2011). States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691140575.[6]
  • Scheve, Kenneth; Stasavage, David (2016). Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691165455.[9]
  • Stasavage, David (2020). The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691177465.[11]

Papers

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Professor David Stasavage". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 2022-02-11. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d "David Stasavage - Overview". NYU School of Law. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  3. ^ "David Stasavage". New York University College of Arts and Science. Archived from the original on 2022-02-11. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  4. ^ a b "David Stasavage (CV)". May 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  5. ^ a b Reviews include:
    • Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent (September 2004). "Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688–1789. By David Stasavage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii+210. $60.00". American Journal of Sociology. 110 (2): 490–491. doi:10.1086/425384.
    • Neal, Larry (2005). "Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688-1789 (review)". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 26 (2): 254–256. doi:10.1162/0022195054741343. S2CID 141789754. Alternate URL
    • Dickinson, H. T. (September 2004). "Reviewed Work: Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688-1789 by David Stasavage". The International History Review. 26 (3): 622–624. JSTOR 40110539.
  6. ^ a b Reviews include:
  7. ^ Stasavage, David (5 July 2011). States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities. Volume 35 in the series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Princeton University Press. doi:10.1515/9781400838875. ISBN 978-1-4008-3887-5 – via De Gruyter.
  8. ^ "APSA's 2012 Organized Sections Awards Presented". PS: Political Science & Politics. 45 (4): 837–846. October 2012. doi:10.1017/S1049096512001187. ISSN 1049-0965.
  9. ^ a b Reviews include:
  10. ^ Kiser, Edgar; Karceski, Steven M. (11 May 2017). "Political Economy of Taxation". Annual Review of Political Science. 20 (1): 75–92. doi:10.1146/annurev-polisci-052615-025442. ISSN 1094-2939.
  11. ^ a b Reviews include:
    • El-Mumin, Mustafa (2021). "The decline and rise of democracy: a global history from antiquity to today by David Stasavage, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2020, 424 pp., index, references, £30 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-691-17746-5". Democratization. 28 (6): 1216–1218. doi:10.1080/13510347.2020.1851680. S2CID 234436626.
    • Møller, Jørgen (March 2021). "The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today. By David Stasavage. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 424p. $35.00 cloth". Perspectives on Politics. 19 (1): 299–300. doi:10.1017/S1537592720004387. S2CID 233799841.
    • Bublic, John M. "The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today by David Stasavage, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2020, xii + 424 pp., $35.00 (cloth)". The European Legacy. doi:10.1080/10848770.2022.2035500. S2CID 246468779.
  12. ^ Shah, Mohammad Qadam (2021). "Why Transition to Modern Democracy Is Challenging in Developing Nations? Exploring The Role of Foreign Powers in Afghanistan" (PDF). Comparative Politics. XXXI (2): 5–12. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  13. ^ "Annual Review of Political Science, Current Editorial Committee". Annual Reviews Directory. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
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