Rate Professor Kenneth Scheve

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Political Science, Harvard University, 2000; B.A. in Economics, University of Notre Dame, 1992.

Research Interests: Comparative political economy, international relations, political methodology, and the politics of economic policy, with a focus on how economic inequality shapes political outcomes.

Appointments: I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame (2025–present); Dean Acheson Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs, Yale University (prior); Dean of Social Science, Yale University (prior).

Awards: Multiple research grants from the National Science Foundation; Giovanni Sartori Book Award for best book on qualitative methods.

Publications: Co-author of Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2014); numerous articles in top journals like American Political Science Review and Journal of Politics.