David Brady, Associate Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	337 Soc/Psych Building
Office Phone:	(919) 660-5760
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• SOCIOL 302.01, WORKSHOP ON SOCIOL RESEARCH

  Soc/Psych 329, Tu 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

• PhD, Sociology Indiana University 2001
• Executive Training Program London School of Economics 1998
• Certification: Higher Education and Pedagogy Indiana University 1997
• MA, Sociology Indiana University 1997
• BA, Sociology, Cum Laude University of Minnesota 1994
• Spanish Proficiency Forester Instituto Internacional, San Jose, Costa Rica 1992

Research Interests:

My research focuses on three themes: (1) the sources of poverty and inequality; (2) the consequences of globalization; and, (3) the political outcomes of stratification. Within each theme, I utilize empirical and theoretical approaches, macro- and individual-levels of analysis, and study the U.S. and comparative-historical cases. Among the research questions I am presently working on are: What is the relationship between the welfare state and poverty? What are the causes of wildcat strikes in U.S. manufacturing? How do political parties affect the amount of poverty and inequality in advanced capitalist democracies? How does globalization impact democratic welfare states? What are the effects of structural change on poverty? Beyond these topics, I am always interested in hearing about new ideas from students across a host of different sociological subjects. Finally, I also teach courses in "Poverty and Society," "Organizations and Management," "Methods of Social Research" and "Comparing States and Markets."

Areas of Interest:

Poverty and Inequality,
Political Sociology,
Comparative/ Historical,
Work and Labor,
Globalization,
Research Methods

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Brady, David, Rich Democracies, Poor People: How Politics Explain Poverty (2009), Oxford University Press [pdf] .
2. Brady, David, Andrew S. Fullerton, and Jennifer Moren-Cross, Putting Poverty in Political Context: A Multi-Level Analysis of Working-Aged Poverty Across 18 Affluent Western Democracies, Social Forces (Forthcoming) .
3. Brady, David, Benjamin Sosnaud, and Steven Frenk, The Shifting and Diverging White Working Class in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1972-2004, Social Science Research, vol. 38 (2009), pp. 118-133 [pdf] .
4. Brady, David, Yunus Kaya, and Jason Beckfield, Reassessing the Effect of Economic Growth on Well-Being in Less Developed Countries, 1980-2003, Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. 42 (2007), pp. 1-35 [pdf] .
5. Martin, Nathan and David Brady, Workers of the Less Developed World Unite? A Multi-Level Analysis of Unionization in Less Developed Countries, American Sociological Review, vol. 72 (2007), pp. 562-584 [pdf] .