 John
Richard Skuse, Class of 1941, Professor of Political Science
 Jeffrey M. Berry - American Politics, Political Behavior
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1974
Professor Berry specializes in the areas of interest groups, citizen participation, nonprofits,
and public policymaking. He is the author or co-author of Lobbying for the People (Princeton, 1977),
The Interest
Group Society (Longman, 4th ed., 2007), Feeding Hungry People: Rulemaking in the Food Stamp Program
(Rutgers, 1984),
The Challenge of Democracy (Houghton Mifflin, 9th ed., 2007), and
The Rebirth of Urban Democracy (Brookings, 1993), winner of the American Political Science
Association's 1994 Gladys Kammerer Award for the Best Book in American Politics, and the American
Political Science Association Organized Section on Urban Politics' 1994 Best Book in Urban Politics Award.
His book, The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups
(Brookings Institution, 1999), received the Aaron Wildavsky Award, given annually by the Policy Studies
Organization for the best book in the field of public policy. Recent books include
Surveying Nonprofits: A Methods Handbook (Aspen Institute, 2003) and
A Voice for Nonprofits (Brookings Institution, 2003), recipient of the Leon D.
Epstein Outstanding Book Award of the Political Organizations and Parties section of the American Political
Science Association. Berry is the co-author of
Democracy at Risk (2005), a study of
civic engagement in America, published by the Brookings Institution. He is a recipient of the Tufts
Distinguished Scholar Award.
Prof. Berry's Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Berry's Web Page
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