Department of Political Science, Henry Brady

Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards
A book with this title was published in 2004 by Rowman and Littlefield and Berkeley Public Policy Press. This project investigates the strengths and weaknesses of qualitative and quantitative methodologies. In the book, David Collier and I argue that both approaches can learn from one another. The book received the 2005 Sartori Award of the Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science Association for the best book on qualitative methods. We are now working on a second volume that will take up issues of causality, measurement, concept formation, and interpretive research.

Buried Memories: Political Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
This book has been accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press. About ten papers have been presented at professional conferences, several have been published, and a book manuscript is currently being prepared. The published papers include "Subjects to Citizens: From Non-Voting, to Protesting, to Voting in Estonia During the Transition to Democracy," in the Journal of Baltic Studies, "Categorically Wrong? Nominal Versus Graded Measures of Ethnic Identity,"in Studies in Comparative International Development, and "The Communist Party on the Eve of Collapse,"in J. Zancak and Ilpyong J. Kim (editors), Legacy of the Soviet Bloc.

Capturing Campaign Effects
An edited collection of papers, including contributions from the editors, was published by the University of Michigan Press in April 2006. These papers are from a conference organized by Henry E. Brady and Richard Johnston and held in Vancouver, Canada

Explaining Residual Ballots and Improving Voting Systems: New Methods and New Data
A series of papers coming out of work with the "Butterfly Ballot" case in Palm Beach County Florida. Part of this work involves the development of a general methodology for detecting problems in voting returns. Another part involves intensive analysis of data from around the county. Published articles include "The Butterfly Did It: The Aberrant Vote for Buchanan in Palm Beach County, Florida." in the American Political Science Review, Counting All The Votes: The Performance of Voting Technology in the United States published by the Berkeley Survey Research Center and Institute for Governmental Studies, and "Equal Protection for Votes," (2002) in Arthur J. Jacobson and Michel Rosenfeld (editors), The Longest Night: Polemics and Perspectives on Election 2000, University of California Press.

The Impact of Welfare On Special Populations: Disabled Children, Agricultural Workers, and Immigrants
A monograph on "Expensive Children in Poor Families" was published by the Public Policy Institute of California. An article on "Seasonal Employment Dynamics and Welfare Use in Agricultural and Rural California Counties" was published in Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform, Upjohn Institute. An article on "The Impact of Child and Adult Disabilities on the Duration of Welfare Spells" is in "revise and resubmit" at the Journal of Human Resources. A policy brief has been published by the California Welfare Research Project on "Immigration and Welfare in California."

Inequality and Political Participation in America
Several papers on political participation and political generations have already been presented at professional meetings, and a conference, organized by Henry Brady, Kay Schlozman, and Sidney Verba, was held in October 2000 in Berkeley, California. A paper entitled "Who Bowls? The (Un) Changing Stratification of Participation," has been published in Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox (editors), Understanding Public Opinion, 2nd Edition, CQ Press. Two papers are being published in a new Russell Sage volume on Social Inequality.

The Costs of Voting
This project is investigating the costs of voting by using the "natural experiments" in which the locations and accessibility of polling places are changed dramatically from one election to another. The major paper from this work, "The Costs of Voting, Evidence from a Natural Experiment" has won two prizes, the Gosnell prize of the Political Methodology Society of the American Political Science Association for best quantitative paper at any conference in 2003-2004 and the Western Political Science Association's Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper at the 2005 meetings of the Association. We are now planning addition research based upon the same design.