Expert: Henry Brady

Henry Brady
Professor, Political Science and Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley

Professor Brady received his Ph.D. in Economics and Political Science from MIT in 1980. His areas of interest include Quantitative Methodology, American and Canadian Politics, and Political Behavior. He teaches undergraduate courses on political participation and party systems and graduate courses on advanced quantitative methodology. He is former president of the Political Methodology Group of the American Political Science Association.

His current research interests include political participation in America, Estonia, and Russia, the dynamics of public opinion and political campaigns, the evaluation of social welfare programs, and the impact of computers on social policy making. Brady has co-authored two books. Letting the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election (1992) won the Harold Adams Innis Award for the best book in the social sciences published in English in Canada in 1992-1993. Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics (1995) was featured in an American Political Science Review symposium in 1997.

Brady has also authored numerous articles on political participation, political methodology, the dynamics of public opinion, and other topics.