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Vol. 30:4 ISSN 0160-8460 December 2002
David W. Brady Joins Commission
David W. Brady
President George W. Bush has named David W. Brady, a senior fellow and associate director for research at the Hoover Institution, to serve as one of the two Presidential representatives on the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Brady succeeds Marvin F. "Bud" Moss in that capacity. Nicholas C. Burckel serves as the other Presidential representative on the Commission.
Dr. Brady is also the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political Science and Ethics in the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a professor of political science in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He is an expert on the U.S. Congress and congressional decision making. His current research focuses on the political history of the U.S. Congress, the history of U.S. election results, and public policy processes in general.
Dr. Brady received the B.S. degree from Western Illinois University, as well as an M.A. in 1967, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1970. While teaching at Rice University, Dr. Brady was honored with the George Brown Award for Superior Teaching. In 1992 he received the Dinkelspiel Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from Stanford University, and in 1993 he received the Phi Beta Kappa Award for best teacher at Stanford. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His recent publications include, with John Cogan, "Out of Step, Out of Office," American Political Science Review, March 2001; with John Cogan and Morris Fiorina, Change and Continuity in House Elections (Stanford University Press, 2000); Revolving Gridlock: Politics and Policy from Carter to Clinton (Westview Press, 1999); with John Cogan and Doug Rivers, How the Republicans Captured the House: An Assessment of the 1994 Midterm Elections (Hoover Essays in Public Policy, 1995); and The 1996 House Elections: Reaffirming the Conservative Trend (Hoover Essays in Public Policy, 1997). Brady is also author of Congressional Voting in a Partisan Era (University of Kansas Press, 1973) and Critical Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives (Stanford University Press, 1988).
