David Stasavage

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David Stasavage is affiliated with the following schools: London School of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, New York University

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David Stasavage's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Political Science University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, David Stasavage is an American political scientist. Stasavage attended a bachelor's degree at Cornell University in 1989, then obtained his doctorate from Harvard University in 1995. 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. Stasavage was later appointed dean for the social sciences. In 2015, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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David Stasavage's Published Works

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The Limits of Delegation: Veto Players, Central Bank Independence, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy (2003) (586)
Democracy and education spending in Africa (2005) (555)
Religion and Preferences for Social Insurance (2006) (476)
Open-Door or Closed-Door? Transparency in Domestic and International Bargaining (2004) (276)
Does it Pay to Be Transparent? International Evidence from Central Bank Forecasts (2001) (238)
The Conscription of Wealth: Mass Warfare and the Demand for Progressive Taxation (2010) (210)
Credible Commitment in Early Modern Europe: North and Weingast Revisited (2002) (207)
Checks and Balances, Private Information, and the Credibility of Monetary Commitments (1999) (202)
Publicity of Debate and the Incentive to Dissent: Evidence from the US Federal Reserve (2008) (195)
Democracy, War, and Wealth: Lessons from Two Centuries of Inheritance Taxation (2012) (192)
Private Investment and Political Institutions (2002) (181)
What Democracy Does (and Doesn’t Do) for Basic Services: School Fees, School Inputs, and African Elections (2013) (175)
Institutions, Partisanship, and Inequality in the Long Run (2007) (170)
When Distance Mattered: Geographic Scale and the Development of European Representative Assemblies (2010) (137)
The role of democracy in Uganda's move to universal primary education (2005) (134)
Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain 1688-1789 (2008) (129)
Polarization and Publicity: Rethinking the Benefits of Deliberative Democracy (2007) (129)
Transparency, Democratic Accountability, and the Economic Consequences of Monetary Institutions (2003) (107)
A framework for the analysis of corruption (1998) (102)
Was Weber Right? The Role of Urban Autonomy in Europe's Rise (2014) (84)
Representation and Consent: Why They Arose in Europe and Not Elsewhere (2016) (78)
Improving Policy Credibility: Is there a Case for African Monetary Unions? (2000) (77)
Wealth Inequality and Democracy (2017) (73)
Bureaucratic Delegation and Political Institutions: When are Independent Central Banks Irrelevant? (1999) (71)
The CFA Franc Zone and Fiscal Discipline (1997) (70)
Introduction [States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities] (2011) (70)
Corruption: The Issues (1997) (66)
Cities, Constitutions, and Sovereign Borrowing in Europe, 1274–1785 (2007) (60)
Public debt and the birth of the democratic state (2003) (57)
Technology and the Era of the Mass Army (2014) (56)
Monetary policy transparency, inflation and the sacrifice ratio (2002) (54)
Partisan politics and public debt: The importance of the 'Whig Supremacy' for Britain's financial revolution (2007) (52)
Determinants of Customs Fraud and Corruption: Evidence from Two African Countries (1998) (51)
States of Credit (2011) (46)
Does transparency make a difference? The example of the European council of ministers (2005) (43)
Democracy, Autocracy, and Emergency Threats: Lessons for COVID-19 From the Last Thousand Years (2020) (41)
The Political Economy of Religion and Social Insurance in the United States, 1910–1939 (2006) (41)
Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe (2016) (41)
Does monetary policy transparency reduce disinflation costs (2003) (39)
Causes and consequences of corruption: Mozambique in transition (1999) (39)
Are Cash Budgets a Cure for Excess Fiscal Deficits (and at What Cost) (1999) (36)
How Large Are the Political Costs of Fiscal Austerity? (2019) (35)
Private Investment and Political Uncertainty (2000) (32)
What Determines Monetary Policy in the Franc Zone? Estimating a Reaction Function for the BCEAO (2004) (31)
What we can learn from the early history of sovereign debt (2016) (29)
The Decline and Rise of Democracy (2020) (29)
The CFA Franc Zone After EMU: Status Quo, Reform, or Dissolution? (2000) (25)
The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law (2007) (25)
When does delegation improve credibility? Central Bank independence and the separation of powers (1998) (24)
The Political Economy of a Common Currency: The Cfa Franc Zone Since 1945 (2003) (23)
Democracy and Primary School Attendance Aggregate and Individual Level Evidence from Africa (2005) (22)
Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640-1845 (2005) (21)
Two Effects of Transparency on the Quality of Deliberation (2005) (20)
When are monetary commitments credible? Parallel agreements and the sustainability of currency unions (2002) (18)
Origins of Early Democracy (2020) (17)
Was Weber Right? City Autonomy, Political Oligarchy, and the Rise of Europe (2012) (15)
Why did public debt originate in Europe (2015) (15)
Democracy and Education Spending: Has Africa's Move to Multiparty Elections Made a Difference to Policy? (2003) (12)
Making and breaking monetary policy rules: the experience of African countries (1999) (10)
The Conscription of Wealth (2009) (8)
The Political Economy of War Finance (2011) (7)
Communication, Coordination and Common Knowledge in Monetary Policy (2003) (7)
Population and Politics: The Impact of Scale. By John Gerring and Wouter Veenendaal. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 508p. $99.99 cloth, $34.99 paper. (2021) (7)
Religion and social insurance: Evidence from the United States, 1970-2002 (2010) (6)
Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: Appendix (2003) (6)
HOW SOCIAL NETWORKS HELP VOTERS COORDINATE AROUND INFORMATION PROVISION TO IMPROVE ELECTORAL ACCOUNTABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM MEXICO∗ (2017) (6)
When do states abandon monetary discretion? Explaining the persistence and evolution of the CFA franc zone (2003) (5)
The Franc Zone as a Restraint (2000) (5)
Monetary Policy in the Franc Zone: Estimating Interest Rate Rulesfor the BCEAO (2004) (4)
Biogeography, writing, and the origins of the state (2021) (3)
Monetary Policy in the Franc Zone (2004) (3)
Equal Treatment and the Inelasticity of Tax Policy to Rising Inequality (2022) (3)
Incomplete Fiscal Rules with Imperfect Enforcement (2005) (3)
Monetary Policy in the CFA Zone (2004) (2)
Foundations of a New Democracy: Schooling, Inequality, and Voting in the Early Republic (2022) (2)
Oligarchy and Growth Lessons From Europe ’ s Autonomous Cities (2012) (2)
Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: Trends in French and British Sovereign Borrowing, 1689–1789 (2003) (2)
Origins of Wealth Equality (2015) (1)
Institutional evolution in the CFA Franc Zone (1996) (1)
Democracy, War, and Wealth Evidence from Two Centuries of Estate Taxation1 (2010) (1)
Electoral Competition and Fluctuations in Partisan and Ethnic Discrimination (2011) (1)
Should We Care About Inequality? Let's Ask *Another* Philosopher (2014) (1)
Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: Stability of Representative Institutions in France and Great Britain (2003) (1)
Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: England, Japan, and China. By Wenkai He (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2013) 328 pp. $55.00 (2014) (1)
Has Africa's Move to Multiparty Elections Made a Difference for Policy? (2012) (1)
Monetary Policy in the CFA Zone: Country-level Credit Policy (2004) (1)
The politics of a common currency: the CFA Franc zone since 1945 (2003) (1)
4. When Do States Abandon Monetary Discretion? Lessons from the Evolution of the CFA Franc Zone (2019) (1)
The Spread of Modern Democracy (2020) (0)
Partisan Politics and Public Debt in Great Britain, 1689–1742 (2003) (0)
Origins of Democratic Rule (2020) (0)
Death, War, and Taxes (2012) (0)
Oscar Gelderblom, Cities of Commerce: The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250-1650 (2015) (0)
INO volume 66 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (2012) (0)
What Monty Python Can Teach Us About Magna Carta on its 800th Birthday (2015) (0)
China as the Bureaucratic Alternative (2020) (0)
ELECTORAL ACCOUNTABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM MEXICAN SOCIAL NETWORKS∗ (2018) (0)
William J. Ashworth. Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640–1845. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 396. $85.00 (2005) (0)
CHAPTER SEVEN. Three Territorial State Experiences (2011) (0)
2. Treating Citizens as Equals (2016) (0)
Online Appendix of Additional Results Religiosity and Social Welfare Spending: 1990s Cross-Country Evidence A. OLS and IV results for extended sample including all countries included in both the World Values (2006) (0)
Why Conservatives Should Call This Big Tax Cut Unfair (2016) (0)
4. Taxing Inheritance (2016) (0)
Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: Historical Background: Sovereign Borrowing in Europe before 1688 (2003) (0)
Small states, big credit?An interview with David Stasavage (2012) (0)
The Ongoing Democratic Experiment (2020) (0)
Is the Estate Tax Doomed (2013) (0)
7. The Role of War Technology (2016) (0)
CHAPTER EIGHT. Implications for State Formation and Development (2011) (0)
CHAPTER SIX. Three City-State Experiences (2011) (0)
9. What Future for Taxing the Rich (2016) (0)
Burkina Faso: Leading a Wave or Joining the Club? (2014) (0)
1. Why Might Governments Tax the Rich (2016) (0)
Early Democracy Was Widespread (2020) (0)
List of contributors (2021) (0)
The Franc Zone as an Agency of Restraint (2000) (0)
5. Taxes on the Rich in Context (2016) (0)
CHAPTER FOUR. Assessing the City-State Advantage (2011) (0)
Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: England, Japan, and China by Wenkai He (review) (2014) (0)
Economic Fairness and America’s Presidential Election (2016) (0)
8. Why Taxes on the Rich Declined (2016) (0)
How Democracy Disappeared in the Islamic World (2020) (0)
Democracy—and Slavery—in America (2020) (0)
8. Democracy and Economic Development over the Long Run (2020) (0)
Origins of Early Democracy Appendix (2019) (0)
3. The Income Tax over Two Centuries (2016) (0)
Reviews of Books:Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640-1845 William J. Ashworth (2005) (0)
Estimating an Interest Rate Reaction Function for the BCEAO (2007) (0)
Democracy, Inequality, and Antitrust (2023) (0)
Why Hasn’t Democracy Saved Us From Inequality? (2014) (0)
WHY MIGHT GOVERNMENTS TAX THE RICH ? * (2015) (0)
Review of Paths Toward the Modern State: England, Japan, and China by Wenkai He (2014) (0)
Why England Was Different (2020) (0)
CHAPTER THREE. Representative Assemblies in Europe, 1250–1750 (2011) (0)
Incomplete Fiscal Rules with Imperfect Enforcement 1 (2004) (0)
Online Appendix for Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and (2016) (0)
Review of The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law by John Fabian Witt (2007) (0)
The Return of History in Political Science (2014) (0)
Monetary policy in the CFA Franc Zone: Estimating Reaction Functions for the BCEAO (2004) (0)
Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: A Model of Credible Commitment under Representative Government (2003) (0)
Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. Dark Matter Credit: The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in France. (2021) (0)
The Development of Representation in Europe (2020) (0)
Weak States Inherited Democracy (2020) (0)
Conclusion: Final Remarks (2008) (0)
Review of Cities of Commerce: The Institutional Foundations of Trade in the Low Countries, 1250-1650 by Oscar Gelderblom (2015) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE. Origins of City-States (2011) (0)
What We Can Learn From the Early History of Sovereign Debt 1 (2015) (0)
When Technology Undermined Democracy (2020) (0)
The Rise of Western Democracy: Why it Happened in Europe and Not China or the Middle East (2019) (0)
CHAPTER TWO. The Evolution and Importance of Public Credit (2011) (0)
INO volume 76 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
A Electronic Appendix for Kenneth Scheve and (2010) (0)
Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: Partisan Politics and Public Debt in France, 1689–1789 (2003) (0)

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