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Kenneth Scheve, Ph.D., Harvard University, 2000, is Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Yale University where he teaches courses in political economy and quantitative methods. His research interests are in international and comparative political economy and comparative political behavior. His current research projects include studying the mass politics of globalization; the determinants of income inequality and welfare state development; and the electoral behavior of voters and elites in ethnically heterogeneous societies and the consequences of this behavior for economic policymaking and democratic performance. His research has been published in numerous academic journals including the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Economics & Politics, the European Union Politics, International Organization, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and The Review of Economics and Statistics. He is the author, with Matthew Slaughter, of the book entitled, Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers (Institute for International Economics, 2001) examining American public opinion about the liberalization of trade, immigration, and foreign direct investment policies. He has recently been a fellow-in-residence at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (2005-2006) and has previously been a visiting scholar at the Bank of England and London School of Economics. Campus address: 8 Prospect Place, Room 146 Phone: 203-432-6109 Email: kenneth.scheve@yale.edu. close window