Jeffrey M Berry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey M Berry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey M |
| FAMILY NAME | Berry |
| SIGNATURE | BERRY J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4850-6508 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 669 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Ideology and Support for Federalism in Theory—And in Practice
Conservatives are more likely than liberals to support the concept of federalism. In this article, we look at this support in the context of particular issues. Using multiple national surveys, including an original module on the 2020 Congressional Election Study, we find that conservatives are more likely to prefer a devolution of power to state and local jurisdictions, even if doing so might make it harder to achieve conservative policy aims, wh…
The age of urban advocacy
Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States
Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism by Paul Sabin
Undeniably, the public-interest movement fundamentally altered American politics, but calibrating its precise impact is difficult given all the cross-currents and complexities of the U.S. system of government. Such is the challenge that Sabin accepts in this book. His primary focus is on Ralph Nader since Naderism catalyzed the larger movement. With the publicity surrounding his 1965 auto safety expose, Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Danger…
Ideological Bubbles and Two Types of Conservatives
For several years, and through different administrations, surveys have shown that self-identified liberals are more likely than self-identified conservatives to avoid interactions with and exposure to ideological disagreement. In this study, we demonstrate that this ideological asymmetry in outgroup avoidance can be partially explained by the well-established tendency of self-identified conservatives to hold moderate or liberal policy preferences…
Education and the Curious Case of Conservative Compromise
Education,” notes Philip Converse, “is everywhere the universal solvent.” Whatever the ill of the body politic, many believe that greater education improves the condition. Much scholarship explores the impact of education on political attitudes and behaviors, but scholars have not examined the relationship of education to support for political compromise. This is especially topical, as compromise between parties seems harder than ever to achieve,…
Race and Gender on Fox and MSNBC
The political content on cable TV is symptomatic of the highly polarized era we live in. In this study of Fox and MSNBC, we sampled primetime evening programs on both and analyzed each major story presented. Our approach conceptualized each segment as a narrative and, as such, we coded the political arc of these stories and focused on the villains animating each set piece. On Fox the villains, who are harshly denounced, are disproportionately peo…
Expanding Nonprofit Advocacy
Expanding Nonprofit Advocacy. This paper calls for regulatory changes that would clarify the rules around advocacy by 501(c)(3) nonprofits. It is common for leaders of such nonprofits to misinterpret these rules and to believe that they are much more restrictive than they really are. This results in less nonprofit advocacy and, consequentially, less representation of interests that are chronically underrepresented
The Interest Group Society
Donors for democracy? Philanthropy and the challenges facing America in the twenty-first century
Foundations as interest groups
Interest Group Society
Compromising Positions: Why Republican Partisans Are More Rigid than Democrats
“I am a man of fixed and unbending principle, and one of my principles is flexibility.” —Everett Dirksen IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE A SENATE LEADER today happily admitting that he or she is, of all things, a compromiser. In his ineffable way, the garrulous Everett Dirksen was proud to say that weaving together legislative compromises was his job. Dirksen served as the Republican minority leader during the 1960s and was frequently photographed negotiat…
Hiding Politics in Plain Sight
The Tea Party versus Agenda 21: Local groups and sustainability policies in U.S. cities
As local governments have moved toward adopting sustainability policies, there have been some cases where local Tea Parties have emerged as aggressive and strident opponents of such changes. Looking broadly at the Tea Party movement across the United States and systematically measuring its influence in urban America, we assess each Tea Party chapter’s capacity – its ability to convert resources into meaningful political advocacy. Data is derived …
Negative Returns: The Impact of Impact Investing on Empowerment and Advocacy
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The Impact of Local Environmental Advocacy Groups on City Sustainability Policies and Programs
American cities vary considerably in the degree to which they pursue sustainability. What explains this variation? One plausible cause of such differences is that sustainability may be more appealing to high‐income cities than to more economically challenged cities. Yet such strict economic determinism seems simplistic and removes politics from an inherently political process. The hypothesis here is that any such relationship between income and c…
Lobbying for the People: The Political Behavior of Public Interest Groups
Assessing business advantage in Washington lobbying
Images of an Unbiased Interest System
Since political scientists were introduced to the concept of ‘the scope and bias of the pressure system’ by Schattschneider more than half a century ago, we have grappled with the lack of a standard against which to assess bias. Still, scholars have c
The Tea Party in Local Politics
Governing Local Sustainability: Agency Venues and Business Group Access
To what extent do local administrators include business interests in their informal bargaining and negotiation on issues involving economic development and environmental and sustainability policies? In the absence of previous studies, we extend political market theory to decisions involving administrative officials by investigating differences across city agencies in the extent they provide business organizations access to the policy development …
Civil Society and Sustainable Cities
In the modern American city, who determines environmental policy? Cities have undergone fundamental change in both their economies and populations. In terms of political forces, our expectation is that across a range of cities, where nonprofit environmental groups have been included or incorporated into the local policymaking process, there is greater commitment to environmental protection, and more extensive adoption and implementation of local …
Business Politics in an Era of Demographic Change
As American business looks toward the future and its role in the policy-making process, it must consider how it is going to be affected by this country’s ongoing demographic changes. As was the case in the 2012 elections, the changing face of American politics has the potential to produce a dramatic impact on the nature of business-government relations. This essay examines the future of business advocacy in the context of America’s emerging demog…
Outrageous political opinion and political anxiety in the US
From Incivility to Outrage: Political Discourse in Blogs, Talk Radio, and Cable News
Most research on incivility in American politics focuses on its effects on citizens' political attitudes and behaviors, in spite of remarkably little data on the extent to which political discourse is actually uncivil. Those studies that do examine content focus on negative campaign advertisements, overlooking more egregious forms of political incivility that penetrate the broader media landscape. In this study, we attempt to conceptualize and me…
Studying Organizational Advocacy and Influence: Reexamining Interest Group Research
In Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science (1998) , Frank Baumgartner and Beth Leech characterized a series of problems in the interest group research published between 1950 and 1995. In this article, we assess whether recent research has become more theoretically coherent, more attentive to context, and broader in both scope and topical focus, all of which are crucial to advancing the systematic study of in…
Participation and the Pursuit of Sustainability in U.S. Cities
This article explores the relationship between political and civic participation and the pursuit of sustainability in American cities. Some have argued that cities that exhibit more participation, engagement, and bridging social capital are more likely to pursue policies and programs designed to achieve greater sustainability. Others have posited alternative explanations, especially explanations related to resources, socioeconomic status, and eco…
Validity and Reliability Issues In Elite Interviewing
Many of the early important empirical works on policymaking in Washington were built around elite interviews. We first learned about how Congress really operates from pioneers in elite interviewing such as Lewis Anthony Dexter (1969), Ralph Huitt (1969), and Donald Matthews (1960). No less revered is the scholarship of Richard Fenno (1978), John Kingdon (1995), and Robert Salisbury (1993), who have produced enduring and respected work from elite …
Images of an Unbiased Interest System
Since political scientists were introduced to the concept of ‘the scope and bias of the pressure system’ by Schattschneider more than half a century ago, we have grappled with the lack of a standard against which to assess bias. Still, scholars have c
Mobilizing Minority Communities: Social Capital and Participation in Urban Neighborhoods
The debate over social capital and civil society has focused largely on broad-brush assessments of participation in America and on what various measures of involvement in social and political life indicate about Americans. This study moves beyond general interpretations of societal trends to a detailed analysis of minorities in city politics. Drawing on data gathered from a study of participation in large American cities, the authors break partic…
The Impact of Local Environmental Advocacy Groups on City Sustainability Policies and Programs
American cities vary considerably in the degree to which they pursue sustainability. What explains this variation? One plausible cause of such differences is that sustainability may be more appealing to high‐income cities than to more economically challenged cities. Yet such strict economic determinism seems simplistic and removes politics from an inherently political process. The hypothesis here is that any such relationship between income and c…
The rebirth of urban democracy
Ideology and Support for Federalism in Theory—And in Practice
Conservatives are more likely than liberals to support the concept of federalism. In this article, we look at this support in the context of particular issues. Using multiple national surveys, including an original module on the 2020 Congressional Election Study, we find that conservatives are more likely to prefer a devolution of power to state and local jurisdictions, even if doing so might make it harder to achieve conservative policy aims, wh…
Who cares about the lobbying agenda
Civil Society and Sustainable Cities
In the modern American city, who determines environmental policy? Cities have undergone fundamental change in both their economies and populations. In terms of political forces, our expectation is that across a range of cities, where nonprofit environmental groups have been included or incorporated into the local policymaking process, there is greater commitment to environmental protection, and more extensive adoption and implementation of local …
On the Origins of Public Interest Groups: A Test of Two Theories
How and why do interest groups originate? Two major theories have been offered by David Truman and Robert Salisbury respectively, the former explaining the phenomenon in terms of "societal disturbance," the latter in terms of entrepreneurial skill. Berry has attempted to test the two theories through a survey of eighty-three public interest groups in Washington, D.C. He concludes that in the large majority of cases Salisbury's theory has greater …
Governing Local Sustainability: Agency Venues and Business Group Access
To what extent do local administrators include business interests in their informal bargaining and negotiation on issues involving economic development and environmental and sustainability policies? In the absence of previous studies, we extend political market theory to decisions involving administrative officials by investigating differences across city agencies in the extent they provide business organizations access to the policy development …
Citizen Groups and the Changing Nature of Interest Group Politics in America
The rise of liberal citizen groups that began in the 1960s has had a strong impact on the evolution of interest group advocacy. The success of these liberal organizations was critical in catalyzing the broader explosion in the numbers of interest groups and in causing the collapse of many subgovernments. New means of resolving policy conflicts had to be established to allow for the participation of broader, more diverse policy communities. Citize…
Assessing business advantage in Washington lobbying
Donors for democracy? Philanthropy and the challenges facing America in the twenty-first century
The Tea Party versus Agenda 21: Local groups and sustainability policies in U.S. cities
As local governments have moved toward adopting sustainability policies, there have been some cases where local Tea Parties have emerged as aggressive and strident opponents of such changes. Looking broadly at the Tea Party movement across the United States and systematically measuring its influence in urban America, we assess each Tea Party chapter’s capacity – its ability to convert resources into meaningful political advocacy. Data is derived …
Outrageous political opinion and political anxiety in the US
Education and the Curious Case of Conservative Compromise
Education,” notes Philip Converse, “is everywhere the universal solvent.” Whatever the ill of the body politic, many believe that greater education improves the condition. Much scholarship explores the impact of education on political attitudes and behaviors, but scholars have not examined the relationship of education to support for political compromise. This is especially topical, as compromise between parties seems harder than ever to achieve,…
Compromising Positions: Why Republican Partisans Are More Rigid than Democrats
“I am a man of fixed and unbending principle, and one of my principles is flexibility.” —Everett Dirksen IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE A SENATE LEADER today happily admitting that he or she is, of all things, a compromiser. In his ineffable way, the garrulous Everett Dirksen was proud to say that weaving together legislative compromises was his job. Dirksen served as the Republican minority leader during the 1960s and was frequently photographed negotiat…
Understanding the Rise of Talk Radio
The number of radio stations airing political talk shows—predominantly conservative talk radio—has surged in the past few years. This massive change in the radio industry says something about the demand for such shows, but attributing the rise of talk radio to a corresponding rise in conservative popular opinion is misleading. We argue that this remarkable growth is better explained by the collision of two changes that have transformed the radio …
The Transformation of Plantation Politics: Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta
The Transformation of Plantation Politics: Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta. By Sharon D. Wright Austin. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. 247p. $65.00. The title of Sharon Wright Austin's new book is intended to be ironic. As the author persuasively demonstrates, there has been no transformation of politics in the Mississippi Delta, and the area's wealthy white elite continues to d…
To Enact a Law: Congress and Campaign Financing
Foundations as interest groups
Negative Returns: The Impact of Impact Investing on Empowerment and Advocacy
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Financing Presidential Campaigns
To Enact a Law: Congress and Campaign Financing
Electoral Economics: Getting & Spending The Common Cause Manual on Money and Politics . Campaign Finance in America . By David W. Adamany Financing the 1968 Election . By Herbert E. Alexander Money in…
Grievance Procedures Available from the Committee on Professional Ethics and Academic Freedom
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Lobbying for the People
On the Origins of Public Interest Groups: A Test of Two Theories
How and why do interest groups originate? Two major theories have been offered by David Truman and Robert Salisbury respectively, the former explaining the phenomenon in terms of "societal disturbance," the latter in terms of entrepreneurial skill. Berry has attempted to test the two theories through a survey of eighty-three public interest groups in Washington, D.C. He concludes that in the large majority of cases Salisbury's theory has greater …
Public interest Vs. party system
Citizen Groups and Alternative Approaches to Regulatory Reform
Berry examines alternative regulatory reform proposals which could lead to greater citizens group control over regulatory policy making. Citizens groups have been handicapped by problems of maintaining large‐scale lobbying efforts, seeing little in the way of long‐term rewards for accomplishing deregulation, being unwilling to play the Congressional logrolling game, and simultaneously favoring regulation in one area and deregulation in another. T…
Public Involvement in Administration: The Structural Determinants of Effective Citizen Participation
World encyclopedia of political systems and parties
International Relations and Politics
The rebirth of urban democracy
Citizen Groups and the Changing Nature of Interest Group Politics in America
The rise of liberal citizen groups that began in the 1960s has had a strong impact on the evolution of interest group advocacy. The success of these liberal organizations was critical in catalyzing the broader explosion in the numbers of interest groups and in causing the collapse of many subgovernments. New means of resolving policy conflicts had to be established to allow for the participation of broader, more diverse policy communities. Citize…
United States
Patrons and Entrepreneurs: "A Response to "Public Interest Group Entrepreneurship and Theories of Groups Mobilization
Patrons and Entrepreneurs: "A Response to "Public Interest Group Entrepreneurship and Theories of Groups Mobilization
Public interest groups are small percentage of the universe of all interest groups, yet they play critical representative role in American democracy (Schlozman and Tierney 1986). Groups with agendas as diverse as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Religious Roundtable fall into the general category of public interest groups-lobbies which seek a collective good, the achievement of which will not selectively and materially benefit the membe…
Mobilizing Minority Communities: Social Capital and Participation in Urban Neighborhoods
The debate over social capital and civil society has focused largely on broad-brush assessments of participation in America and on what various measures of involvement in social and political life indicate about Americans. This study moves beyond general interpretations of societal trends to a detailed analysis of minorities in city politics. Drawing on data gathered from a study of participation in large American cities, the authors break partic…
The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925 . Elisabeth S. Clemens
Validity and Reliability Issues In Elite Interviewing
Many of the early important empirical works on policymaking in Washington were built around elite interviews. We first learned about how Congress really operates from pioneers in elite interviewing such as Lewis Anthony Dexter (1969), Ralph Huitt (1969), and Donald Matthews (1960). No less revered is the scholarship of Richard Fenno (1978), John Kingdon (1995), and Robert Salisbury (1993), who have produced enduring and respected work from elite …
A Voice for Nonprofits
Nonprofit organizations are playing an increasingly important role in delivering basic government services. Yet they are discouraged by federal law from participating in legislative lobbying efforts ueven on issues that affect their clients directly. Without the involvement of nonprofits in the governmental process, the vulnerable populations they serve are left without effective representation in the political system. A Voice for Nonprofits anal…
Nonprofits and Civic Engagement
There are approximately 800,000 501(c)(3) nonprofits large enough to register with the federal government. Add churches, foundations, and nonprofits too small to register, and the number is far higher than that. The potential for nonprofits to engage their clients and members in community affairs and public policy making is, in theory, enormous. Yet, perversely, nonprofits are regulated by the federal government in such a way that discourages the…
The Transformation of Plantation Politics: Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta
The Transformation of Plantation Politics: Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta. By Sharon D. Wright Austin. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. 247p. $65.00. The title of Sharon Wright Austin's new book is intended to be ironic. As the author persuasively demonstrates, there has been no transformation of politics in the Mississippi Delta, and the area's wealthy white elite continues to d…
Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why
The State of Research on Political Parties and Interest Groups
This book addresses the literatures on political parties and on interest groups. It first presents a series of discussion on theoretical and methodological perspectives. This is followed by party history and parties in the electoral process. It then considers the party in government as well as bias and representation. The final part, on dimensions of behaviour, analyzes different interest group roles and forms of advocacy. The parties and interes…
Urban Interest Groups
This article explores the changing nature of urban interest group politics and contrasts trends and developments at the urban level with what is known about lobbies in Washington. It also examines the barriers to entry for interest group politics and finds strikingly low barriers at the local level. Analysis then turns to the politics of location, maintaining that the traditional image of downtown business groups dominating local politics while n…
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