Areas of Research/Interest: Social inequality, political sociology, and public policy.
Bio:
Jeff Manza (Ph.D University of California – Berkeley, 1995) is Professor of Sociology and Department Chair. His research is in the area of social stratification, political sociology and public policy. He has analyzed on how different types of social identities and inequalities in the United States and elsewhere influence political processes such as voting behavior, partisanship, and public opinion. Manza is the co-author (with Clem Brooks) of Social Cleavages and Political Change (Oxford University Press, 1999), the co-editor of Navigating Public Opinion (Oxford University Press, 2002), co-author of a book on the origins and political consequences of felon disfranchisement in the U.S. (with Christopher Uggen) entitled Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2006), and (with Clem Brooks) of an analysis of the comparative impact of public opinion on welfare state effort in the OECD democracies entitled Why Welfare States Persist (University of Chicago Press, 2007). His work has also appeared in journals such as the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, the Journal of Politics, and Playboy. He is currently working on a study of the impact of policy framings on public opinion (using data from original national telephone surveys fielded in the summer of 2007 and the summer of 2009). Having taught courses on the sociology of inequality for many years, Manza is now completing a book on inequality entitled Who Gets What? for W.W. Norton that highlights the role of political factors in shaping stratification systems. He also recently brought out a new inequality reader entitled Inequality and Society (WW Norton, 2009).
Select Publications:
Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza. ‘Social Policy Responsiveness in the Developed Democracies.' American Sociological Review 71(2006): 474-94. Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza. ‘Why Do Welfare States Persist? Social Spending Effort in OECD Democracies Since the 1980s.’ Journal of Politics 68(2006): 815-26. Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Melissa Thompson. ‘Citizenship and Reintegration: The Socioeconomic, Familial, and Civic Lives of Criminal Offenders.’ The Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Science 605(2006): 281-310. Paul Nieuwbeerta, Clem Brooks, and Jeff Manza. ‘Cleavage-Based Voting in Cross-National Perspective: Evidence From Six Countries.’ Social Science Research 35(2006): 88-128. Christopher Uggen, Angela Behrens, and Jeff Manza. ‘Criminal Disenfranchisement.’ Annual Review of Law and Social Science 1(2005): 307-22. Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza. ‘A Great Divide? Religion and Political Change in U.S. National Elections, 1972 - 2000.’ The Sociological Quarterly 45(2004): 421-50. Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. ‘Voting and Subsequent Crime and Arrest: Evidence from a Community Sample.’ Columbia Human Rights Law Review 36(2004): 193-215. Jeff Manza, Clem Brooks, and Christopher Uggen. ‘Public Attitudes Towards Felon Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States.’ Public Opinion Quarterly 68(2004): 276-87. Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen. ‘Punishment and Democracy: The Voting Rights of Nonincarcerated Criminal Offenders in the United States.’ Institute for Policy Research Working Paper 04-03, Fall 2004. Angela Behrens, Christopher Uggen, and Jeff Manza.‘Ballot Manipulation and the “Menace of Negro Domination”: Racial Threat and Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 1850-2000.’ American Journal of Sociology 109(2003): 559-605. Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. ‘Democratic Contraction? The Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States.’ American Sociological Review 67(2002): 777-803. Jeff Manza and Fay Lomax Cook. ‘A Democratic Polity? Three Views of Policy Responsiveness to Public Opinion in the United States.’ American Political Research 30(2002): 630-67. Jeff Manza. ‘Political Sociological Models of the U.S. New Deal.’ Annual Review of Sociology 26(2000): 297-322. Jeff Manza. ‘Race and the Underdevelopment of the American Welfare State.' Theory and Society 30(2000): 819-32. Jeff Manza and Debbie Van Schyndel. ‘Still the Missing Feminist Revolution? Inequalities of Race, Class, and Gender in Introductory Texts.’ [Comment on Ferree and Hall, ASR Dec 1996]. American Sociological Review 64(2000): 468-75. Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks. ‘Group Size, Turnout, and Alignments in the Making of U.S. Party Coalitions, 1960-1992.’ European Sociological Review 15(1999): 369-90. Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks. ‘The Gender Gap in U.S. Presidential Elections: When? Why? Implications?’ American Journal of Sociology 103 (March 1998): 1235-66. Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks. ‘The Religious Factor in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1960-1992.’ American Journal of Sociology 103 (July 1997): 38- 81. Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza.‘The Social and Ideological Bases of Middle Class Political Alignments in the United States, 1972-92.’ American Sociological Review 62 (April 1997): 191-208. Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza. ‘Social Cleavages and Political Alignments: U.S. Presidential Elections, 1960-1992.’ American Sociological Review 62 (December 1997): 937-46. Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza. ‘Class Politics and Political Change in the United States, 1952-1992.’ Social Forces 76 (December 1997): 379-409. Michael Hout, Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza. ‘The Democratic Class Struggle in the United States, 1948-92.’ American Sociological Review 60(1995): 805-28. Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza. ‘Do Changing Values Explain the New Politics? A Critical Assessment of the Postmaterialist Thesis.’ The Sociological Quarterly 35(December 1994): 541-70. Michael Hout, Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza.‘The Persistence of Classes in Postindustrial Society.’ International Sociology 8 (September 1993): 259-77. |
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