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...Verba??s recent accolades include the Johan Skytte Prize in 2002—the highest international honor in political science—and being named as one of the “tweediest” professors by the now-defunct M Magazine...
...Faculty outcry against Knowles, Skocpol, and Verba??s plan leaves the Faculty, at least for now, without three of its most respected leaders. The responsibility for fixing this leadership vacuum falls squarely on Kirby. As Conant University Professor Stephen Owen pointed out at the meeting, “it is the Dean who leads his or her Faculty.” None of Harvard’s other eight Faculties is having such drastic problems, which points to a lack of leadership on Kirby’s part. Kirby needs to step up and be a more effective...
...member Verba Committee—chaired by Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba??made its final report in March of 1989. Among other points, it urged the Faculty Council to consider the establishment of a new administrative position: an Associate Dean for Affirmative Action. The Faculty Council heeded the Committee’s advice and appointed the first dean in the fall...
...Verba??s work centers around one of the fundamental paradoxes of democratic life: why, he asks, is a system preoccupied with questions of fairness and equality governed by social elites? Verba explains that he is “interested in studies of ordinary people.” His latest book, still in progress, is a further discussion of social factors behind political inequality...
...Verba, Almond and their team performed a cross-national survey, a method which would become fundamental to political science. For his second major work, Voice and Equality, Verba surveyed 15,000 Americans. The approach made waves in the field of political science, prompting theorists across the country to mimic Verba??s method...