David Stasavage

David Stasavage is an American political scientist known for his work on democracy and political economy. 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. 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.

In Taxing the Rich (Princeton University Press, 2016) 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.

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

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