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  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

David W. Brady is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on social sciences, with 48 publications in this field. Within social sciences, Brady has concentrated on subfields including sociology and political science, general health professions, health, global and planetary change, and political science and international relations.

Their main research topics cover a range of social and health-related areas: employment and welfare studies, health disparities and outcomes, income, poverty, and inequality, intergenerational and educational inequality studies, global health care issues, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, as well as flood risk assessment and management.

Among the frequent venues where Brady has published are Harvard Dataverse with 12 publications, Demography with 4, Population Research and Policy Review with 2, Nature Sustainability, and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Brady include:

  • Large and inequitable flood risks in Los Angeles, California (2022), published in Nature Sustainability
  • The Levels and Trends in Deep and Extreme Poverty in the United States, 1993-2016 (2020), published in Demography
  • The Enduring Significance of Ethno-Racial Inequalities in Poverty in the U.S., 1993-2017 (2021), published in Population Research and Policy Review
  • Cross-National Variation in the Relationship between Welfare Generosity and Single Mother Employment (2022), published in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • The Inheritance of Race Revisited: Childhood Wealth and Income and Black-White Disadvantages in Adult Life Chances (2020), published in Sociological Science

Brady has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including John Ferejohn, Aldo Paparo, Ulrich Köhler, Brett F. Sanders, and Jochen E. Schubert.

Their book publication record includes one title published by Lehigh University Press eBooks: Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality (2020).

In recognition of their career, Brady was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1989.

Best Publications

  • Out of Step, Out of Office: Electoral Accountability and House Members' Voting

    Brandice Canes-Wrone;David W. Brady;John F. Cogan

  • Comparative Welfare States Data Set

    Evelyne Huber;Charles Ragin;John D. Stephens;David Brady

  • Rich Democracies, Poor People: How Politics Explain Poverty

    David Brady

  • Revolving Gridlock: Politics And Policy From Carter To Clinton

    David W. Brady;Craig Volden

  • Primary Elections and Candidate Ideology: Out of Step with the Primary Electorate?

    David W. Brady;Hahrie Han;Jeremy C. Pope

  • Rethinking the Sociological Measurement of Poverty

    David Brady

  • Economic Globalization and the Welfare State in Affluent Democracies, 1975-1998

    David Brady;Jason Beckfield;Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

  • Targeting, universalism, and single-mother poverty: a multilevel analysis across 18 affluent democracies.

    David Brady;Rebekah Burroway

  • Institutional Context and Leadership Style: The House from Cannon to Rayburn

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  • Rich Democracies, Poor People

    David Brady

  • The Welfare State and Relative Poverty in Rich Western Democracies, 1967–1997

    David Brady

  • Heterogeneity and Representation: The Senate and Free Trade

    Michael Bailey;David W. Brady

  • Paradoxes of Social Policy Welfare Transfers, Relative Poverty, and Redistribution Preferences

    David Brady;Amie Bostic

  • When Unionization Disappears: State-Level Unionization and Working Poverty in the United States

    David Brady;Regina S. Baker;Ryan Finnigan

  • Critical elections and congressional policy making

    David W. Brady

  • The Politics of Poverty: Left Political Institutions, the Welfare State, and Poverty

    David Brady

  • Reassessing the Effect of Economic Growth on Well‐Being in Less Developed Countries, 1980-2003

    David Brady;Yunus Kaya;Jason Beckfield

  • The Decline of Party in the U. S. House of Representatives, 1887-1968

    David W. Brady;Joseph Cooper;Patricia A. Hurley

  • The Consequences of Economic Globalization for Affluent Democracies

    David Brady;Jason Beckfield;Wei Zhao

  • Does Immigration Undermine Public Support for Social Policy

    David Brady;Ryan Finnigan

  • Theories of the Causes of Poverty

    David Brady

  • Public policy and politics in America

    James E. Anderson;David W. Brady;Charles S. Bullock

  • Party, Constituency, and Roll-Call Voting in the U. S. Senate

    Charles S. Bullock;David W. Brady

  • Ladies In Pink: Religion and Political Ideology in the Anti-ERA Movement.

    David W. Brady;Kent L. Tedin

  • Electoral Systems and Institutional Choice A Case Study of the 1988 Korean Elections

    David Brady;Jongryn Mo

  • The Vanishing Marginals and Electoral Responsiveness

    Stephen Ansolabehere;David Brady;Morris Fiorina

  • Critical Elections, Congressional Parties and Clusters of Policy Changes

    David W. Brady

  • Is There a Conservative Coalition in the House

    David W. Brady;Charles S. Bullock

  • Revolving Gridlock: Politics and Policy from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush

    David W. Brady;Craig Volden

  • A Delayed Return to Historical Norms: Congressional Party Polarization after the Second World War

    Hahrie Han;David W. Brady

  • The Roots of Careerism in the U. S. House of Representatives

    David Brady;Kara Buckley;Douglas Rivers

  • Continuity and change in House elections

    David W. Brady;John F. Cogan;Morris P. Fiorina

  • Congressional Voting in a Partisan Era: A Study of the McKinley Houses and a Comparison to the Modern House of Representatives

    David W. Brady

  • Party Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1890-1910: Elements of a Responsible Party System

    David W. Brady;Phillip Althoff

  • Sex Differences in Political Attitudes and Behavior: The Case for Situational Factors

    Kent L. Tedin;David W. Brady;Arnold Vedlitz

  • Characteristics and causes of America's polarized politics

    Pietro S. Nivola;David W. Brady;Alan I. Abramowitz

  • Consequences and correction of America's polarized politics

    Pietro S. Nivola;David W. Brady

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig Volden
Craig Volden University of Virginia
Daniel P. Kessler
Daniel P. Kessler Stanford University
Charles S. Bullock
Charles S. Bullock University of Georgia
Morris P. Fiorina
Morris P. Fiorina Stanford University
Michael Spence
Michael Spence Stanford University
John Ferejohn
John Ferejohn New York University
Mathew D. McCubbins
Mathew D. McCubbins Duke University
Kent L. Tedin
Kent L. Tedin University of Houston
Richard A. Brody
Richard A. Brody Stanford University
James E. Anderson
James E. Anderson Boston College

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