Henry Brady, Treasurer 2003-05 University of California, Berkeley

Bio as of September 2005

Henry Brady is the Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley with appointments in the department of political science and the Goldman school of Public Policy. His scholarly interests include electoral politics and political participation, social welfare policy, political polling and policy-oriented surveys, statistical methodology, and the use of computers in management of social programs.

Brady has worked for the federal Office of Management and Budget and other organizations in Washington, D.C. Brady is the principal investigator for the California Work Pays Demonstration Project, which is developing and archiving public databases on California's welfare program. He is past president of the Political Methodology Group of the American Political Science Association, 2003 Annual Meeting Co-Chair, associate editor of Perspectives on Politics, and director of the University of California Data Archive and Technical Assistance Program, which provides academic researchers, state agencies, and others with technical assistance on computerized data including the census and sample surveys. He is co-author, with Sidney Verba and Kay Schlozman, of Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics (Harvard University Press, 1995), editor of Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools Shared Standards (Roman and Littlefield, September 2004), and has written on political participation and elections in America, Canada, Estonia, and Russia.