Kenneth Scheve is the I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts & Letters and Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is a political economist who studies the domestic and international governance of modern capitalism. His research studies inequality and redistribution; the politics of globalization, the social and political consequences of long run economic change; and climate politics. He currently serves as the Chair of the International Political Economy Society.
Contact
College of Arts & Letters
University of Notre Dame
1OO O’Shaugnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Current Research
Forthcoming. “Democracy, Inequality, and Antitrust” (with Michael O. Allen and David Stasavage). Journal of Politics.
2025. “Compensation, Beliefs in State Intervention, and Support for the Energy Transition” (with Isabela Mares and Christina Toenshoff). Comparative Political Studies.
2024. “Trains, Trade, and Transformation: A Spatial Rogowski Theory of America’s 19th Century Protectionism” (with Theo Serlin). American Journal of Political Science.
2023. “The German Trade Shock and the Rise of the Neo-Welfare State in Early Twentieth-Century Britain” (with Theo Serlin). American Political Science Review.
2023. “Foundations of a New Democracy: Schooling, Inequality, and Voting in the Early Republic” (with Tine Paulsen and David Stasavage). American Political Science Review.
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