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PROFILE: Henry Brady, Big Scientist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2009

Larry M. Bartels
Affiliation:
Princeton University
Richard Johnston
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia
Cynthia S. Kaplan
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Marcia K. Meyers
Affiliation:
University of Washington

Extract

Henry Brady's career is a testament to the virtues of big social science—big questions, big datasets, big toolkits, big institutions. While much of political science still functions as a cottage industry, he has played a leading role in the second generation of our discipline's post-war industrial revolution. Building on the varied contributions of such earlier stalwarts as Warren Miller, David Truman, Gabriel Almond, and Paul Lazarsfeld, Brady has contributed significantly to the theoretical, empirical, methodological, and institutional development of the field. With intelligence, energy, and good will, he has instigated and nurtured a remarkable variety of projects, partnerships, and programs to advance our understanding of important political phenomena.

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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 2009

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