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David Brady, Associate Professor
David Brady
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Associate Professor
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264 Soc/Psych Building |
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(919) 660-5760 |
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919-660-5623 |
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Poverty and Inequality,
Political Sociology,
Globalization,
Comparative/ Historical,
Work and Labor,
Research Methods
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| My research focuses on two broad themes: (1) the nature and sources of poverty and inequality; and (2) the relationships between institutions and economic globalization. These themes illustrate my interest in the three-way intersections between inequality, markets, and politics; and the fields of political and economic sociology, stratification, comparative/historical sociology, and research methods. My research utilizes both macro- and individual-levels of analyses, and examines both the U.S. and comparative-historical cases. Much of my research compares the affluent democracies of Western Europe and North America. Recently, I have also studied developing countries, including especially Latin America. I have conducted research on a variety of topics including globalization, welfare states, labor unions, deindustrialization, voting, development, poverty and inequality. Presently, my work is animated by the following broad questions: How do societies politically accomplish equality? What does this era of heightened globalization mean for the politics of and prospects for broadly shared well-being? How do global economic transformations shape political institutions and how do those institutions mediate the impact of such transformations? Finally, how does the state construct and influence economic action? I teach courses on research methods, poverty and stratification, and economic and political sociology. In addition, I am the Director of the Center for European Studies at Duke.
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Selected Publications/Recent
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| Recent Publications
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2009 Rich Democracies, Poor People: How Politics Explain Poverty Brady, David. Oxford University Press http://www.soc.duke.edu/~brady/web/flyer.pdf
2009 Putting Poverty in Political Context: A Multi-Level Analysis of Working-Aged Poverty Across 18 Affluent Western Democracies Brady, David, Andrew S. Fullerton, and Jennifer Moren-Cross. Social Forces ,Forthcoming.
2009 The Shifting and Diverging White Working Class in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1972-2004 Brady, David, Benjamin Sosnaud, and Steven Frenk. Social Science Research , Vol. 38 , 118-133 http://www.soc.duke.edu/~brady/web/BradySSR.pdf
2007 Reassessing the Effect of Economic Growth on Well-Being in Less Developed Countries, 1980-2003 Brady, David, Yunus Kaya, and Jason Beckfield. Studies in Comparative International Development , Vol. 42,2007. , 1-35 http://www.soc.duke.edu/~brady/web/SCIDFinal.pdf
2007 Workers of the Less Developed World Unite? A Multi-Level Analysis of Unionization in Less Developed Countries Martin, Nathan and David Brady. American Sociological Review , Vol. 72,2007. , 562-584 http://www.soc.duke.edu/~brady/web/martinbrady.pdf
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Sociology
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