James D. Savage

James D. Savage is a political science professor at the University of Virginia. He is an expert in government budget policies and budget theory. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Riverside, his graduate degrees at the University of California, Berkeley, and his post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University. At Berkeley, Savage studied under Nelson Polsby and Aaron Wildavsky.

Savage is best known for three books on American and comparative budgeting and fiscal policy: "Balanced Budgets and American Politics"¹; "Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities and the Politics of the Academic Porkbarrel" ²; and "Making the EMU: The Politics of Budgetary Surveillance and the Enforcement of Maastricht" ³. The first book explores the origins of the idea of balancing budgets and its affect on American politics, fiscal policies, and institutional development from 1690 through the Reagan presidency. The second book analyzes the politics of congressional earmarking in the federal budget for universities and colleges. The third book examines how the enforcement of the Maastricht Treaty's budgetary rules played a critical role in the creation of the European Union's Economic and Monetary Union and the later enforcement of the Stability and Growth Pact.

References

¹Cornell University Press, 1988.²Cambridge University Press, 1999.³Oxford University Press, 2005.