Jeff Manza

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Jeff Manza | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Jeff Manza | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Sociology | workplaces = New York University<br>Northwestern University | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 1984; M.A., 1989; Ph.D., 1995) | thesis_title = Policy experts and political change in the new deal | thesis_url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/892823394 | thesis_year = 1995 | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Social inequality<br>political sociology | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }} '''Jeff Manza''' is an American sociologist and professor of sociology at New York University. He is a political sociologist, known for his work on voting behavior, public opinion, and felony disenfranchisement in the United States (with Christopher Uggen).<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/03/us/felony-costs-voting-rights-for-a-lifetime-in-9-states.html | title=Felony Costs Voting Rights for a Lifetime in 9 States | work=The New York Times | date=3 November 2000 | accessdate=19 June 2017 | author=Sengupta, Somini}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://qz.com/784503/what-would-happen-if-felons-could-vote/ | title=What would happen if felons could vote in the US? | work=Quartz | date=6 October 2016 | accessdate=19 June 2017 | author=Kozlowska, Hanna}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.salon.com/2017/04/02/the-voting-rights-issue-no-one-talks-about-ending-the-disenfranchisement-of-felons-will-strengthen-democracy/ | title=The voting rights issue no one talks about: Ending the disenfranchisement of felons will strengthen democracy | work=Salon | date=2 April 2017 | accessdate=19 June 2017 | author=McElwee, Sean}}</ref> He has also researched the relationship between support for government programs and economic downturns.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/its-not-just-obamacare-the-real-spectacular-rise-in-opposition-to-government-programs/280017/ | title=It's Not Just Obamacare: The Real, Spectacular Rise in Opposition to Government Programs | work=The Atlantic | date=2 October 2013 | accessdate=19 June 2017 | author=Franke-Ruta, Garance}}</ref> He created The Sociology Project, a series of introductory sociology textbooks written by himself and NYU colleagues that aim to reorient the presentation of sociological ideas to beginning students.

==References== {{Reflist}} *Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks, Social Cleavages and Political Change, Oxford University Press 1999 *Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook, and Benjamin Page, Navigating Public Opinion, Oxford University Press 2002 *Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen, Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States Oxford University Press 2006 *Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza, Why Welfare State Persist University of Chicago Press 2007 *Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza, Whose Rights? Counterterrorism and the Dark Side of U.S. Public Opinion Russell Sage Foundation Press 2013

==External links== *[http://as.nyu.edu/faculty/jeff-manza.html Faculty page] *{{Google Scholar id|K2hMn3AAAAAJ}} {{Authority control}}

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