PaulBrace is the Clarence L. Carter Chair of Legal Studiesin the Department of Political Science at Rice University.  He haspublishedresearch in theAmerican Political Science Review,AmericanJournal of Political Science, Journal of Politics,PoliticalResearch Quarterly,Polity, Social Science Quarterly,AmericanPolitics Quarterly,Legislative Studies Quarterly and numerousother journals.  He is co-author of Follow the Leader: OpinionPolls and the Modern Presidents (Basic Books, 1992),authorof State Government and Economic Performance (Johns Hopkins UniversityPress, 1993) andco-editor of The Presidency in American Politics(NYU Press, 1989) and American State and Local Politics (ChathamHouse, 1999). 

He has served on numerous editorial boards including the AmericanPolitical Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly,Social Science Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, American Reviewof Politics, Albany Law Review, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, Stateand Local Government Review, and has served on the Law and Social ScienceAdvisory Panel for the National Science Foundation.  He hasreceived awards for teaching (1989), advising (1996),mentoring(1999), best book (1993) and best conference paper (1996,2000).  Presently he is involved in a five-year project funded bythe National Science Foundation to study American state supreme courts.

 
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