James Savage

James D. Savage is a professor of politics at the University of Virginia. His project examines efforts to transform Iraq's budgetary institutions to meet international best practices, fulfill the American 17th Benchmark - the execution of the Iraqi capital budget - and assist with Iraq's economic reconstruction. It analyzes ministerial and provincial capacity building efforts with the Ministries of Finance and planning, and how the budget plays a critical role in Iraqi state-building and economic reconstruction.

Savage's expertize is in the fields of comparative budgeting, fiscal policy, and economic development. He is the chair-elect of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, the leading association for public finance scholars and practitioners. His fellowships include a post-doctoral fellowship with the department of government at Harvard University, a Fulbright-European Union Affairs Fellow affiliation with the European Commission, and a Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi International Affairs Fellow affiliation with the Japanese Ministry of Finance. He served as a consultant to the US Congressional Research Service, the U.S. General Accountability Office, and the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment. At the University of Virgina, he has served as executive assistant to the president for federal relations and assistant vice president for research and federal relations. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

• Making the EMU: The Politics of Budgetary Surveillance and the Enforcement of Maastricht (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
• Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
• Balanced Budgets and American Politics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988)