Jeffrey M. Berry

American Politics, Political Behavior
John Richard Skuse Professor
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 Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups, The Interest Group Society, and The Challenge of Democracy. Berry is the recipient of the Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award and the Tufts Distinguished Scholar Award.

Berry is currently working on two projects. With Sarah Sobieraj (Tufts Sociology) he is completing a book on The Outrage Industry, a study of cable news, talk radio, and the political blogosphere. It will be published by Oxford University Press in September, 2013. Articles from this project are listed below.

With Kent Portney (Tufts Political Science) he has conducted extensive research on sustainable cities. Drawing on surveys of administrators, city councilors, and interest group leaders in 50 American cities, he and Portney are trying to determine what leads cities to pursue sustainability. Some of their papers are listed below.

Courses

PS 15, "Sophomore Seminar: Politics in the City"
PS 101, "Presidency and the Executive Branch"
PS 102, "Congress, Bureaucracy, and Public Policy"
PS 113, "Nonprofits and Civil Society"
PS 118, "New Media, New Politics"

Publications & Working Papers

The Outrage Industry:

• "The Outrage Industry" (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
• "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)
• "Tea Party Mobilization" (with Sarah Sobieraj and Suzanne Schlossberg), paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, August 2012

Urban Politics and Sustainability:

• "Interest Group Participation In City Politics" (with Kent E. Portney), paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, August 2012
• "Civil Society and Sustainable Cities" (with Kent E. Portney), paper delivered at the Princeton Conference on Environmental Politics, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, December, 2011. A revised version of this paper is forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies.
• "The Group Basis of City Politics" (with Kent E. Portney), paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, September 2011. A revised version of this paper is forthcoming in the edited volume, Nonprofits and Advocacy (Johns Hopkins University Press).
• "Power and Interest Groups in City Politics", Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, Kennedy School of Government

Lobbying and Policy Change:

• "Who Cares About the Lobbying Agenda?", Interest Groups & Advocacy 1 (2012)
• Lobbying and Policy Change (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
• Reviews and Blogs on Lobbying and Policy Change
• Project website, Advocacy and Public Policymaking

Strengthening America's Nonprofits Project:

• A Voice for Nonprofits (Brookings Institution 2003)
• Surveying Nonprofits: A Methods Handbook (Aspen Institute 2003)
• "The Lobbying Law is More Charitable Than They Think," (Washington Post)
• "Nonprofits Groups Shouldn't Be Afraid to Lobby," (Chronicle of Philanthropy)
• Lobbying and Charities: a Quiz

Elite Interviewing:

• "Validity and Reliability in Elite Interviewing," PS (December, 2002)

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:

• Surveying Nonprofits: A Methods Handbook (Aspen Institute, 2003)
• Interview protocols for Power and Interest Groups in City Politics:
  • Administrators
  • City Councilors
  • Group Advocates
• Interview protocols for Lobbying and Policy Change
• Questionnaires for "Cities Face the Future" (sustainable cities) project
  • Administrators
  • City Councilors
  • Group Advocates

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