James D. Savage is a professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia (1990-present) and is known for comparative budgeting and macro budgetary rules. He has bachelor’s degrees in political science (1973) and psychology (1975) and an MA in political science (1975) from the University of California Riverside, and the MPP (1977), an M.A. in economics (1980), and a Ph.D. (1986) in political science from University of California Berkeley for which his dissertation received APSA’s Lasswell Award (1987). He served the University of California System as a federal relations analyst (1980-1990) and the University of Virginia as Assistant Vice President for Research and Federal Relations and then as Executive Assistant to the President for Federal Government Relations (1997-2005). His books include Balancing Budgets and American Politics (1988), Funding Science in America (1999), Making the EMU: The Politics of Budgetary Surveillance and the Enforcement of Maastricht (2005), and Reconstructing Iraq’s Budgetary Institutions (2013), and Comparative Public Budgeting (2021). He is a NAPA fellow (2014), a former ABFM chair (2012), and has served as a visiting professor at several overseas research centers.