Dr. Henry Brady

Biography

Henry E. Brady is the Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy and the Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD in Economics and Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. His research generally focuses on electoral politics, political participation, social welfare policy, political polling, and statistical methodology. He has worked with the federal Office of Management and Budget in Washington, D.C., and he has held significant roles within professional associations, serving as president of the American Political Science Association and the Political Methodology Society. Brady served as the director of the University of California's Survey Research Center from 1998 to 2009. He has coauthored and edited several influential books, including "Letting People Decide: Dynamics of Canadian Election," which won the Harold Innis Award, and "Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics," awarded the Philip Converse Award. Brady has authored numerous scholarly articles and is recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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