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Tufts University
Dept. of Political Science
Packard Hall
Medford, MA 02155

Office: 617.627.3292
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John Richard Skuse, Class of 1941, Professor of Political Science

Expertise
American Politics, Political Behavior

Education
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1974

Biography
Jeffrey Berry's research has focused on policymaking in Washington, interest groups, Massachusetts politics, nonprofits, and urban government. He is the author of many books, including The Rebirth of Urban Democracy, which won the American Political Science Association's Gladys Kammerer Award, and Lobbying and Policy Change and A Voice for Nonprofits, each of which received the Leon Epstein Best Book Award. His book, The New Liberalism, was awarded the Aaron Wildavsky best book award by the Policy Studies Association. Other books include The Outrage Industry, The Interest Group Society, and Lobbying for the People. Berry is the recipient of the Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association and the Tufts Distinguished Scholar Award. With Tufts colleagues Jim Glaser and Debbie Schildkraut, he is at work on a large-scale project on the differences between liberals and conservatives.

Courses
PS 113: "Nonprofits and Civil Society"
PS 15: "Sophomore Seminar: Politics in the City"
PS 101: "Presidency and the Executive Branch"
PS 102: "Congress, Bureaucracy, and Public Policy"
PS 104: "New Media, New Politics"

Publications & Working Papers

The Outrage Industry:

• "Anger is a Business" (with Sarah Sobieraj), Vox/Mischiefs of Faction, April 26, 2016
• The Outrage Industry (with Sarah Sobieraj), (Oxford University Press)
• "Are Americans Addicted to Outrage?" (with Sarah Sobieraj), Politico Magazine, January 3, 2014
• "Understanding the Rise of Talk Radio" (with Sarah Sobieraj), PS: Political Science and Politics 44 (October 2011). Copyright Cambridge University Press
• "From Incivility to Outrage: Political Discourse in Blogs, Talk Radio, and Cable News" (with Sarah Sobieraj), Political Communication 28 (February 2011)

Nonprofits and Foundations:

• "Is the FBI's Latest Probe of the Clinton Foundation a 'Witch Hunt' – or Something More?", The Conversation, January 19, 2018.
• "Donors for Democracy" (with Kristin A. Goss), paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, September, 2017. A revised and updated version is published at Interest Groups and Advocacy 7 (October 2018).
• "Negative Returns: The Impact of Impact Investing on Empowerment and Advocacy" PS 43 (July 2016)
• "The Strength of Citizen Government: Local Grassroots Advocacy," Nonprofit Quarterly (Fall 2015)
• A Voice for Nonprofits (with David Arons), (Brookings Institution 2003)
• Surveying Nonprofits: A Methods Handbook (Aspen Institute 2003)
• "The Lobbying Law is More Charitable Than They Think," (Washington Post)
• Lobbying and Charities: a Quiz

Differences between Liberals and Conservatives:

• "Ideology, Racial Resentment, and the Mass Media" (with James Glaser and Deborah Schildkraut, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September, 2019.
• "Compromising Positions: Why Republican Partisans are More Rigid than Democrats" (with James Glaser), Political Science Quarterly 133 (Spring, 2018)
• "Education and the Curious Case of Conservative Compromise" (with James Glaser and Deborah Schildkraut), paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, August 2018. Forthcoming in Political Research Quarterly and early publication available online.

Urban Politics and Sustainability:

• "The Tea Party versus Agenda 21" (with Kent E. Portney), Environmental Politics, 26 (January, 2017)
• "A Creative Class Theory of City Sustainability Policies" (with Kent E. Portney), paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 2016.
• "The Impact of Local Environmental Advocacy Groups on City Sustainability Policies and Programs" (with Kent E. Portney), Policy Studies Journal, 44 (July, 2016)
• "Sustainability and Interest Group Participation in City Politics" (with Kent E. Portney), Sustainability 5 (2013).
• "Civil Society and Sustainable Cities" (with Kent E. Portney), Comparative Political Studies 47 (March 2014)

Interest Groups and Lobbying:

• "Interest Group and Elections," in the Oxford Handbook of Electoral Persuasion (2020)
• "Tea Party Decline," paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, September, 2017
• "Images of an Unbiased Interest System" (with David Lowery et al), Journal of European Public Policy 10 (2015)
• "Assessing Business Advantage in Washington Lobbying" (with Marie Hojnacki et al), Interest Groups and Advocacy, 4 (September 2015)
• Lobbying and Policy Change (with Frank Baumgartner et al), (University of Chicago Press, 2009)

Elite Interviewing:

• "Validity and Reliability in Elite Interviewing," PS (December, 2002)
• "Lessons from the 'Lobbying and Policy Change' Project" (with Beth L. Leech et al), in Interview Research in Political Science (Cornell University Press, 2013)

The New Liberalism:

• The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups (Brookings Institution, 1999)
• Newsweek article about The New Liberalism

Surveys and Research Documents:

• Codebooks and data files for Donors for Democracy project
• Codebook, Outrage Industry Content Analysis
• Surveying Nonprofits: A Methods Handbook (Aspen Institute, 2003)
• Interview protocols for Lobbying and Policy Change
• Project website, Advocacy and Public Policymaking
• Questionnaires for "Cities Face the Future" (sustainable cities) project
  • Administrators
  • City Councilors
  • Group Advocates