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Nancy E. Burns

Warren E. Miller Collegiate Professor
Director and Research Professor, Center for Political Studies
Ph.D., Harvard

4246 ISR
426 Thompson Street
(734) 936-0094
nburns@umich.edu

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Burns studies gender, race, political participation, public opinion, and intergovernmental relations in the American context. Her most recent book, The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation, won the Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book on gender and politics. Burns teaches courses on gender and race and politics, quantitative methods, research design, political participation, and urban politics. Burns is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Selected Publications

  • Nancy Burns, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Sidney Verba. 2001. The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Nancy Burns. 2001. "Gender: Public Option and Political Action." In Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, eds. The State of the Discipline. Washington, DC: APSA.
  • Scott Allard, Nancy Burns, and Gerald Gamm. 1998. "Representing Urban Interests: The Local Politics of State Legislatures," Studies in American Political Development. Fall.
  • Adam Berinsky, Nancy Burns, and Michael Traugott. 2001. "Who Votes By Mail? A Dynamic Model of the Individual-Level Consequences of Vote-By-Mail Systems," Public Opinion Quarterly, Summer.

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