David A. Steinberg
Associate Professor of International Political Economy
Director of the PhD Program
About
David A. Steinberg is an Associate Professor of International Political Economy. His research focuses on the politics of international money and finance. His book, Demanding Devaluation: Exchange Rate Politics in the Developing World (Cornell University Press, 2015), was awarded the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize and received an Honorable Mention for the American Political Science Association’s William H. Riker Book Award. He is the author of articles in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Politics, World Politics, among other outlets. His research has been supported by a Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award, and by fellowships from the Wilson Center, University of Pennsylvania’s Browne Center for International Politics, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 2017, he was awarded the Max M. Fisher Prize for Teaching Excellence. He currently serves as the Director of SAIS's PhD program.
Andrew Rys and David A. Steinberg. 2025. “The Partisan Reversal: Partisanship and Exchange Rate Policy in Closed and Open Economies.” World Politics. Forthcoming.
Yeling Tan, David A. Steinberg, and Daniel McDowell. 2025. “Global Economic Influence and Domestic Regime Support: Evidence from China.” Review of International Political Economy. Forthcoming.
Selim Erdem Aytaç and David A. Steinberg. 2023. “Economic Insecurity and Voter Attitudes about Currency Crises.” Studies in Comparative International Development. Forthcoming.
David A. Steinberg and Daniel McDowell. 2024. “Race, Representation, and the Legitimacy of International Organizations.” International Organization 78 (3): 575-599.
Daniel McDowell and David A. Steinberg. 2024. “Black Representation and the Popular Legitimacy of the Federal Reserve.” European Journal of Political Economy 85: 102583.
Daniel McDowell, David A. Steinberg, Selim Erdem Aytaç, and Dimitar Gueorguiev. 2024. “Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform.” International Studies Quarterly 68 (3): sqae100.
David A. Steinberg and Yeling Tan. 2023. “Public Responses to Foreign Protectionism: Evidence from the US-China Trade War.” Review of International Organizations 18 (1): 145-167. Previously published as Peterson Institute for International Economics Working Paper 22-10.
David A. Steinberg. 2022. “How Voters Respond to Currency Crises: Evidence from Turkey.” Comparative Political Studies 55 (8): 1332-1365.
David A. Steinberg, Daniel McDowell, and Dimitar Gueorguiev. 2021. “Inside Looking Out: How International Policy Trends Shape the Politics of Capital Controls in China.” The Pacific Review 34 (6): 995-1021.
Luis Schiumerini and David A. Steinberg. 2020. “The Black Market Blues: The Political Costs of Illicit Currency Markets.” Journal of Politics 82 (4): 1217-1230.
Dimitar Gueorguiev, Daniel McDowell, and David A. Steinberg. 2020. “The Impact of Economic Coercion on Public Opinion: The Case of US-China Currency Relations.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 64 (9): 1555-1583.
David A. Steinberg and Stephen Nelson. 2019. “The Mass Political Economy of Capital Controls.” Comparative Political Studies 52 (11): 1575-1609.
David A. Steinberg, Stephen Nelson, and Christoph Nguyen. 2018. “Does Democracy Promote Capital Account Liberalization?” Review of International Political Economy 25 (6): 854-883. Replication materials and a supplementary appendix are available here.
Stephen Nelson and David A Steinberg. 2018. “Default Positions: What Shapes Public Attitudes about International Debt Disputes?” International Studies Quarterly 62 (3): 520-533.
David A. Steinberg. 2017. “Interest Group Pressures and Currency Crises: Argentina in Comparative Perspective.” Comparative Politics. 50 (1): 61-82.
Daniel McDowell and David A. Steinberg. 2017. “Systemic Strengths, Domestic Deficiencies: The Renminbi's Future as a Reserve Currency.” Journal of Contemporary China. 26 (108): 801-819.
David A. Steinberg. 2016. “Developmental States and Undervalued Exchange Rates in the Developing World.” Review of International Political Economy. 23 (3): 418-449.
David A. Steinberg. 2015. Demanding Devaluation: Exchange Rate Politics in the Developing World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
David A. Steinberg, Karrie Koesel, and Nicolas Thompson. 2015. “Political Regimes and Currency Crises.” Economics and Politics 27 (3): 337-361.
David A. Steinberg and Krishan Malhotra. 2014. “The Effect of Authoritarian Regime Type on Exchange Rate Policy.” World Politics 66 (3): 491-529. Replication materials and a supplementary appendix are available here.
Sebastian Karcher and David A. Steinberg. 2013. “Assessing the Causes of Capital Account Liberalization: How Measurement Matters.” International Studies Quarterly 57 (1): 128-137.
David A. Steinberg and Victor C. Shih. 2012. “Interest Group Influence in Authoritarian States: The Political Determinants of Chinese Exchange Rate Policy.” Comparative Political Studies 45 (11): 1404-1433.
Victor C. Shih and David A. Steinberg. 2012. “The Domestic Politics of the International Dollar Standard: A Statistical Analysis of Support for the Reserve Currency, 2000-2008.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 45 (4): 855-880. Replication materials and a supplementary appendix are available here.
David A. Steinberg and Stephen M. Saideman. 2008. “Laissez Fear: Assessing the Impact of Government Involvement in the Economy on Ethnic Violence.” International Studies Quarterly 52 (2): 235-259.
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