Kenneth Frederick Scheve Jr. is an American political economist.
Scheve earned a degree in economics at the University of Notre Dame in 1990, then worked in the finance sector. [1] He completed a doctorate in political science at Harvard University in 2000, [2] [1] where his doctoral thesis, Casting Votes in the Global Economy: Public Opinion and Voting Behavior in Open Economies, was advised by James E. Alt, Torben Iversen, and Gary King. [3] Scheve accepted an assistant professorship in political science at Yale University from 2001 to 2004, when he was named associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan. [1] Scheve returned to Yale as full professor of political science in 2006, [1] then left to teach at Stanford University in 2012. [2] [1] He later rejoined the Yale faculty as Dean Acheson Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs. [4] In 2020, Scheve was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [5]