David Brady is deputy director and Davies Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political Science and Leadership Values in the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a professor of political science in the School of Humanities and Sciences at the university, as well as the acting director of the library and archives at Hoover. Brady is an expert on the US Congress and congressional decision making. His current research focuses on the political history of the US Congress, the history of US election results, and public policy processes in general. Brady received a BS degree from Western Illinois University and an MA in 1967 and a PhD in 1970 from the University of Iowa. He was a CIC scholar at the University of Michigan from 1964 to 1965.