David Stasavage

Stasavage earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1989, then obtained his doctorate from Harvard University in 1995.{{cite news |title=David Stasavage |url=https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/david-stasavage.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220211/https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/david-stasavage.html |archive-date=2022-02-11 |url-status=live|access-date=11 February 2022 |publisher=New York University College of Arts and Science}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web |title=David Stasavage - Overview |url=https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&personid=47236 |website=NYU School of Law |access-date=11 December 2023}} 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.

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.{{cite news |title=David Stasavage (CV) |url=https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.full_cv&personid=47236 |access-date=11 February 2022 |date=May 2017}} Stasavage was later appointed dean for the social sciences.

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.

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.

In States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities (Princeton University Press, 2011) he further examined the development of representative assemblies and of public borrowing in Europe, during the medieval and early modern eras.{{cite book |title=States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400838875/html |via=De Gruyter |publisher=Princeton University Press |series=Volume 35 in the series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World |language=en |doi=10.1515/9781400838875 |date=5 July 2011 |last1=Stasavage |first1=David |isbn=978-1-4008-3887-5 }} 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.{{cite journal |title=APSA's 2012 Organized Sections Awards Presented |journal=PS: Political Science & Politics |date=October 2012 |volume=45 |issue=4 |pages=837–846 |doi=10.1017/S1049096512001187 |language=en |issn=1049-0965|doi-access=free }}

In Taxing the Rich (Princeton University Press, 2016) Stasavage and Kenneth F. Scheve examined democracy and taxation, with particular attention to conceptions of fairness and possible mechanisms underlying progressive taxation.{{cite journal |last1=Kiser |first1=Edgar |last2=Karceski |first2=Steven M. |title=Political Economy of Taxation |journal=Annual Review of Political Science |date=11 May 2017 |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=75–92 |doi=10.1146/annurev-polisci-052615-025442 |language=en |issn=1094-2939|doi-access=free }}

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.{{cite journal |last1=Shah |first1=Mohammad Qadam |title=Why Transition to Modern Democracy Is Challenging in Developing Nations? Exploring The Role of Foreign Powers in Afghanistan |journal=Comparative Politics |date=2021 |volume=XXXI |issue=2 |pages=5–12 |url=https://www.comparativepoliticsnewsletter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021_fall.pdf |access-date=11 December 2023}}

In 2015, Stasavage was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{cite news |title=Professor David Stasavage |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/david-stasavage |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220211/https://www.amacad.org/person/david-stasavage |archive-date=2022-02-11 |url-status=live|access-date=11 February 2022 |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences}}{{cbignore}} In July 2023, Stasavage became co-editor of the Annual Review of Political Science.{{cite web |title=Annual Review of Political Science, Current Editorial Committee |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/db/directory?0000,polisci |website=Annual Reviews Directory |access-date=4 December 2023}}

• {{cite book |last1=Stasavage |first1=David |title=Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State |date=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780511510557 |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511510557}}Reviews include:
• {{cite journal |last1=Rosenthal |first1=Jean-Laurent |title=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. |journal=American Journal of Sociology |date=September 2004 |volume=110 |issue=2 |pages=490–491 |doi=10.1086/425384}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Neal |first1=Larry |title=Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688-1789 (review) |journal=Journal of Interdisciplinary History |date=2005 |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=254–256 |doi=10.1162/0022195054741343|s2cid=141789754 }} [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/186331 Alternate URL]
• {{cite journal |last1=Dickinson |first1=H. T. |title=Reviewed Work: Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688-1789 by David Stasavage |journal=The International History Review |date=September 2004 |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=622–624 |jstor=40110539}}
• {{cite book |last1=Stasavage |first1=David |title=States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities |date=2011 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=9780691140575}}Reviews include:
• {{cite journal |last1=Damen |first1=Mario |title=Reviews: States of Credit. Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities |journal=Parliaments, Estates and Representation |date=2013 |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=209–211 |doi=10.1080/02606755.2013.845360|s2cid=144205606 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Martoccio |first1=Michael |title=States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities. By David Stasavage (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2011) 192 pp. $39.95 |journal=Journal of Interdisciplinary History |date=2013 |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=471–473 |doi=10.1162/JINH_r_00433 |jstor=41678717|s2cid=195826010 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Carrington |first1=Laurel |title=States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities |journal=The Historian |date=2013 |volume=75 |issue=2 |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA334277211&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00182370&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E2be31e1e}}
• {{cite book|author1-link=Kenneth Scheve |last1=Scheve |first1=Kenneth |last2=Stasavage |first2=David |title=Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe |date=2016 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=9780691165455}}Reviews include:
• {{cite news |last1=Greenhalgh |first1=Hugo |title=Review: 'Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe', by Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage |url=https://www.ft.com/content/3cc1f000-06dc-11e6-9b51-0fb5e65703ce |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220211/https://www.ft.com/content/3cc1f000-06dc-11e6-9b51-0fb5e65703ce |archive-date=2022-02-11 |url-status=live|access-date=11 February 2022 |work=Financial Times |date=24 April 2016}}{{cbignore}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Martin |first1=Isaac William |title=Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe |journal=Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews |date=2017 |volume=46 |issue=3 |pages=355–357 |doi=10.1177/0094306117705871nn|s2cid=220163689 |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/763458h9 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Halliday |first1=Daniel |title=Review of Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage's Taxing the Rich: a History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, 288pp. |journal=Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics |date=Fall 2017 |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=96–102 |doi=10.23941/ejpe.v10i2.310|doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1002/polq.12715 |last1=Faricy |first1=Christopher |title=Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage |journal=Political Science Quarterly |date=Winter 2017–2018 |volume=132 |issue=4 |pages=762–763 |url=https://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19734}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Chorvat |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Chorvat |first2=Terrence |title=The Dynamic Stability of Progressive Taxation |journal=National Tax Journal |date=March 2018 |volume=71 |issue=1 |pages=183–190 |doi=10.17310/ntj.2018.1.06|s2cid=158661866 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Brownlee |first1=W. Elliot |title=Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe |journal=American Nineteenth Century History |date=2017 |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=198–200 |doi=10.1080/14664658.2017.1340399|s2cid=149245797 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Hacker |first1=Jacob S. |title=Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe. By Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. xvi + 265 pp. Notes, references, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $29.95. {{text|ISBN:}} 978-0-691-16545-5. |journal=Business History Review |date=Winter 2016 |volume=90 |issue=4 |pages=803–805 |doi=10.1017/S0007680517000204|s2cid=157897980 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Jonker |first1=Joost |title=Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage, Taxing the Rich, a History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe |journal=TSEG - the Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History |date=16 June 2017 |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=127–130 |doi=10.18352/tseg.927|doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Leipold |first1=Alexander |title=Book Review: Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage, Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe |journal=Political Studies Review |date=14 November 2017 |volume=16 |issue=1 |page=NP59 |doi=10.1177/1478929917724361|s2cid=220124458 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Tsokhas |first1=Kosmas |title=Scheve, Kenneth and Stasavage, David, Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 266 + XV pp. {{text|ISBN:}} 978 0 691 16545 5. Hardback US$29.95 |journal=Australian Economic History Review |date=July 2019 |volume=59 |issue=2 |doi=10.1111/aehr.12149 |pages=230–234}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Zakariyya |first1=Nabeeh |title=Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe, by Scheve, Kenneth and Stasavage, Daniel (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2016), pp. 259. |journal=Economic Record |date=December 2018 |volume=94 |issue=307 |pages=500–501 |doi=10.1111/1475-4932.12447|s2cid=158068992 }}
• {{cite book |last1=Stasavage |first1=David |title=The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today |date=2020 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=9780691177465}}Reviews include:
• {{cite journal |last1=El-Mumin |first1=Mustafa |title=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), {{text|ISBN:}} 978-0-691-17746-5 |journal=Democratization |date=2021 |volume=28 |issue=6 |pages=1216–1218 |doi=10.1080/13510347.2020.1851680|s2cid=234436626 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Møller |first1=Jørgen |title=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. |journal=Perspectives on Politics |date=March 2021 |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=299–300 |doi=10.1017/S1537592720004387|s2cid=233799841 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Bublic |first1=John M. |title=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) |journal=The European Legacy |doi=10.1080/10848770.2022.2035500|s2cid=246468779 }}

• {{cite journal |last1=Keefer |first1=Philip |last2=Stasavage |first2=David |title=The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy |journal=American Political Science Review |date=August 2003 |volume=97 |issue=3 |pages=407–423 |doi=10.1017/S0003055403000777 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |s2cid=14733499 |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055403000777 |language=en |issn=1537-5943}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Stasavage |first1=David |title=Open-Door or Closed-Door? Transparency in Domestic and International Bargaining |journal=International Organization |date=October 2004 |volume=58 |issue=4 |doi=10.1017/S0020818304040214 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |s2cid=16709125 |language=en |issn=0020-8183|url=http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/225/1/open-door8.pdf }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Stasavage |first1=David |title=Democracy and Education Spending in Africa |journal=American Journal of Political Science |date=April 2005 |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=343–358 |doi=10.1111/j.0092-5853.2005.00127.x |url=http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/224/1/education-AJPSfinal.pdf }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Scheve |first1=Kenneth |first2= David |last2= Stasavage |title=Religion and Preferences for Social Insurance |journal=Quarterly Journal of Political Science |date=26 July 2006 |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=255–286 |doi=10.1561/100.00005052 |url=}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Stasavage |first1=David |title=Representation and Consent: Why They Arose in Europe and Not Elsewhere |journal=Annual Review of Political Science |date=11 May 2016 |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=145–162 |doi=10.1146/annurev-polisci-043014-105648 |url=https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-043014-105648 |language=en |issn=1094-2939}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Scheve |first1=Kenneth |last2=Stasavage |first2=David |title=Wealth Inequality and Democracy |journal=Annual Review of Political Science |date=11 May 2017 |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=451–468 |doi=10.1146/annurev-polisci-061014-101840 |url=https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-061014-101840 |language=en |issn=1094-2939}}

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