Washington D.C. Election Data collection

Jeffrey R. Henig (1951- ) is Professor of Political Science & Education at Teachers College and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Formerly, Henig taught at the George Washington University, where he served as the Director of the Center for Washington Area Studies and as Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science. He earned his B.A. at Cornell University in 1973 and his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in 1978. His research has focused on the boundary between private action and public action in addressing social problems. He is the author or co-author of Neighborhood Mobilization: Redevelopment and Response (Rutgers, 1982), Public Policy and Federalism (St. Martins, 1985), Rethinking School Choice: Limits of the Market Metaphor (Princeton, 1994), Shrinking the State: The Political Underpinnings of Privatization (Cambridge, 1998), The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics and the Challenge of Urban Education (Princeton, 1999), which the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association named the best book written on urban politics in 1999; and Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools (Kansas, 2001), which the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association named the best book written on urban politics in 2001.