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Bruce Cain
Bruce E. Cain, Heller Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of the University of California Washington Center, came to Berkeley from the California Institute of Technology, where he taught from 1976 to 1989. A summa cum laude graduate of Bowdoin College he studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford. In 1976 he received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.
His writings include The Reapportionment Puzzle, The Personal Vote, written with John Ferejohn and Morris Fiorina, and Congressional Redistricting, with David Butler. He has also co-edited numerous books, including Developments in American Politics, Volumes I-IV, with Gillian Peele, Constitutional Reform in California, with Roger Noll, Racial and Ethnic Politics in California, Vol. II, with Michael Preston and Sandra Bass, Voting at the Political Fault Line: California's Experiment with the Blanket Primary with Elisabeth R. Gerber, and Party Lines: Competition, Partisanship and Congressional Redistricting, with Thomas Mann, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
Professor Cain has served as a polling consultant for state and senate races to Fairbank, Canapary and Maulin; redistricting consultant to (among others) the Justice Department, Los Angeles County, San Diego Citizens' Commission on Redistricting, the City and County of San Francisco; and as an expert witness for the California Pro-Life Council, Inc. v. Karen Getman et al. and Bill Lockyer, and the New York State Board of Elections. He has been a consultant to the Los Angeles Times and serves as a political commentator for numerous radio and television stations the Bay Area.
He received the Zale Award for Outstanding Achievement in Policy Research and Public Service from Stanford University, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Cain has received a Distinguished Research Mentoring of Undergraduates award from the UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science and has been honored with an award for outstanding teaching by the American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society.
Bruce A. Cain is currently the Executive Director of the University of California Washington Center.