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Henry Brady

Henry Brady is dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy and Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

He has written on electoral politics and political participation, social welfare policy, political polling, and statistical methodology, and he has worked for the federal Office of Management and Budget. Brady is past president of the American Political Science Association, past president of the Political Methodology Society of the American Political Science Association, and director of the University of California’s Survey Research Center from 1998 to 2009.

He is coauthor of Letting the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election (with Richard Johnston, André Blais, and Jean Crête; Stanford University Press, 1992), which won the Harold Innis Award for the best book in the social sciences published in English in Canada, and Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics (with Kay L. Schlozman and Sidney Verba; Harvard University Press, 1995), which won the Philip Converse Award for a book making a lasting contribution to public opinion research and the AAPOR book award for influential books that have stimulated theoretical and scientific research in public opinion. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2003 and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2006.

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