Professor of Sociology; Department Chair
Ph.D. 1995, M.A. 1989, B.A. 1984 (Sociology), University of California, Berkeley.

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Research Interests:

Social inequality, political sociology, and public policy.

Selected Works:

	Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen. Locked Out:  Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press.
	Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza. Why Welfare States Persist: Public Opinion  and the Future of Social Provision. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
	Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks, Social Cleavages and Political Change:  Voter Alignments and U.S. Party Coalitions. New York: Oxford University Press.
	Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook, and Benjamin Page (eds.). Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
	Jeff Manza and Michael Sauder (eds.). Inequality and Society: Social  Science Perspectives on Social Stratification. New York: Norton.

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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