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CURRICULUM VITAE Sidney Verba Born: May 26, 1932 PRESENT POSITION Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor (Emeritus) and Research Professor of Government, Harvard University Director of the Harvard University Library emeritus PREVIOUS POSITIONS Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 1981-84 Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University, 1983-84 Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, 1968-72 Senior Study Director, National Opinion Research Center, 1968-72 Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, 1964-68 Assistant and Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University, 1960-64 EDUCATION M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University, 1957, 1959 B.A., Harvard College, 1953 HONORS Helen Dinerman Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Public Opinion research, World Association of Public Opinion research, 2004. Johann Skytte Prize, University of Uppsala for distinguished contribution to political science. 2002 Warren Miller Prize, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2001, for Distinguished Contribution to the Social Sciences. Warren Miller Award, American Political Science Association, 2000, For Career Contribution to the Study of Public Opinion and Elections Tanner Lecturer, Oxford University, 1999. Johan Skytte Prize, University of Uppsala, for Lifetime Contribution to Political Science James Madison Award, American Political Science Association, 1993. Award Given Triennially for a Career Contribution to Political Science Member, American Philosophical Society Member, National Academy of Sciences Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Guggenheim Fellow, 1980-81 Woodrow Wilson Award of the American Political Science Association for the Best Book in Political Science, 1976 Gladys Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association for the Best Book on American National Policy, 1972 Victoria Schuck Award for Best Book on Women and Politics, American Political Science Association, 2001 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1963-64 OFFICIAL POSITIONS Chair, Social and Political Science Section, National Academy of Sciences, 2003-2007 Chair, Committee on Human Rights, National Academy of Sciences, 2008- President, American Political Science Association, 1994-5 Chairman, Department of Government, Harvard University, 1977-80 Member, Board of Syndics, Harvard University Press, 1975-84 Member, Board of Directors, Harvard University Press 1984-1991. Chair, Board of Directors, Harvard University Press, 1991-2007. Chair, Social and Political Sciences Section, National Academy of Sciences, 2003-2006. Chair, Committee on Problems and Policy, and member of the Executive Committee, Social Science Research Council, 1977-85. Commission on the Behavioral and Social Sciences, National Research Council 1984-9 Chair, Committee on International Conflict and Cooperation, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences 1991-3 Member, Committee on Democratization, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences Vice-President, American Political Science Association, 1979-81 Vice-President, International Studies Association, 1972-73 Program Chairman, Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association, 1971 Executive Council, American Political Science Association, 1973-76 PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS The Private Roots of Public Life: Gender and the Paradox of Political Inequality (with Nancy E. Burns and Kay L. Schlozman), (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001). Representative Democracy and Democratic Citizens: Philosophical and Empirical Understandings The Tanner Lectures in Human Values, University of Oxford, May, 1999 (Utah University Press, 2000). Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Democracy with Kay L. Schlozman and Henry E. Brady, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research, with Gary King and Robert O. Keohane, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Elites and the Idea of Equality: A Comparison of Japan, Sweden, and the United States, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. Equality in America: The View from the Top, with Gary R. Orren. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1985. Introduction to American Government, with Kenneth Prewitt and Robert Salisbury. New York: Harper and Row, Sixth edition, 1991. The Civic Culture Revisited, editor with Gabriel Almond. Boston: Little Brown, 1980. Injury to Insult: Unemployment, Class, and Political Response, with Kay L. Schlozman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979. Participation and Political Equality: A Seven Nation Comparison, with Norman Nie and Jae-on Kim. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. (Reprinted by University of Chicago Press, 1987) The Citizen and the State, editor with Lucian Pye. Stamford: Greylock Publications, 1977. The Changing American Voter, with Norman Nie and John Petrocik. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. (Enlarged edition, (1979) Participation in America: Political Democracy and Social Equality, with Norman Nie. New York: Harper and Row, 1972. (Reprinted by University of Chicago Press, 1987) Caste, Race, and Politics: A Comparison of India and the United States, with Bashiruddin Ahmed and Anil Bhatt. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1971. Crises of Political Development, with Leonard Binder, James S. Coleman, Joseph LaPalombara, Lucian Pye, and Myron Weiner, Studies on Political Development, vol. VII. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. The Modes of Democratic Participation, with Norman Nie and Jae-on Kim. Beverly Hills, Sage Publications, 1971. Vietnam and the Silent Majority: The Dove's Guide to Public Opinion,with Milton J. Rosenberg and Philip E. Converse. New York: Harper and Row, 1970. Comparative Survey Analysis, with Stein Rokkan, Elina Almasy, and Jean Viet. Paris: Mouton, 1969. Political Culture and Political Development, editor with Lucian Pye. Studies in Political Development, vol. V. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965. The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations, with Gabriel A. Almond. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963. Small Groups and Political Behaviour: A Study of Leadership. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961. The International System: Theoretical Essays, editor with Klaus Knorr, Princeton University Press, 1961. JOURNAL ARTICLES; (SELECTED) “Fairness, Equality, and Democracy: Three Big Words”, Social Research, forthcoming. “What If the Dream of Participation Turned Out to be a Nightmare”, Perspectives on Politics, December, 2003. “Unequal at the Starting Line: Creating Participatory Inequalities across Generations and Among Groups,” American Sociologist 34 (2003), 45-69 (with Kay Schlozman and Nancy Burns). “Who Bowls?: The (Un)Changing Stratification of Participation,” in Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox, eds., Understanding Public Opinion (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2002). “Rational Action and Political Participation”, Journal of Theoretical Politics, July, 2000. (with others). “Prospecting for Participants: Rational Expectations and the Recruitment of Political Activists,” American Political Science Review 93 (1999): 153-168 (with others). “What Happened at Work Today: A Multi-stage Model of Gender, Employment, and Political Participation” Journal of Politics, March 1999 (with others) “Knowing and Caring About Politics: Gender and Political Engagement” Journal of Politics, November, 1997 (with others). “The Big Tilt: Participatory Inequality in America”, The American Prospect, May-June 1997, (with others). “Democracy and the Market: Dilemmas of Equality”, Iowa International Papers, 1997. “The Public Consequences of Private Inequality: Gender, the Family and Political Participation”, (with others) American Political Science Review, June, 1997. “The Citizen as Respondent: Survey Research and American Democracy” American Political Science Review, March, 1995. "Beyond SES: A Resource Model of Political Participation" American Political Science Review 89 (1995): 271- 294 (with others). "Participation’s Not a Paradox: The View from American Activists" The British Journal of Political Science 24 (1994): 1-36 (with others). "Gender and the Pathways to Participation: The Role of Resources" The Journal of Politics 56 (1994): 963-990 (with others). "Is There Another Voice: Women and Participation" American Journal of Political Science, May 1995. (With others) "The Voice of the People", Political Science and Politics, December, 1993. "Citizen Activity: Who Participates? What Do They Say?", with others, American Political Science Review, June, 1993. "Race, Ethnicity and Political Resources", with others. British Journal of Political Science, November, 1993. "Unemployment, Class Consciousness and Radical Politics: What Didn't Happen in the Thirties," with Kay L. Schlozman, Journal of Politics, May, 1977. "Workers' Councils and Participation: The Yugoslav Experience," with Goldie Shabad, American Political Science Review, 1977. "The Amount and Concentration of Political Activity," with Jae-On Kim and Norman Nie. Political Methodology, January, 1975. "Participation and the Life Cycle," with Jae-On Kim and Norman Nie. Comparative Politics, April, 1974. "Hawk and Dove: The Search for an Explanation of Policy Preferences on Vietnam," with Richard Brody, Acta Politica, July, 1972. "Participation, Preferences and the War in Vietnam," with Richard Brody, Public Opinion Quarterly, Fall, 1970. "Some Dilemmas in Comparative Research,"
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