Citizenship, Democracy, and the Civic Reintegration of Criminal Offenders
- C. Uggen, Jeff Manza, Melissa Thompson
- Law, Sociology
- 1 May 2006
Convicted felons face both legal and informal barriers to becoming productive citizens at work, responsible citizens in family life, and active citizens in their communities. As criminal punishment…
Ballot Manipulation and the “Menace of Negro Domination”: Racial Threat and Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 1850–20021
- A. Behrens, C. Uggen, Jeff Manza
- Law, HistoryAmerican Journal of Sociology
- 1 November 2003
Criminal offenders in the United States typically forfeit voting rights as a collateral consequence of their felony convictions. This article analyzes the origins and development of these state felon…
Why Welfare States Persist: The Importance of Public Opinion in Democracies
- Clem Brooks, Jeff Manza
- Political Science
- 2007
The world's richer democracies all provide such public benefits as pensions and health care, but why are some far more generous than others? And why, in the face of globalization and fiscal…
Democratic contraction? Political consequences of felon disenfranchisement in the United States
- C. Uggen, Jeff Manza
- Law
- 1 December 2002
Universal suffrage is a cornerstone of democratic governance. As levels of criminal punishment have risen in the United States, however, an ever-larger number of citizens have lost the right to vote.…
The democratic class struggle in the United States, 1948-1992
- M. Hout, Clem Brooks, Jeff Manza
- History
- 1 December 1995
We present evidence of a historic realignment in the relationship between class and voting behavior in U.S. presidential elections in the postwar period. We take advantage of recent advances in class…
The Gender Gap in U.S. Presidential Elections: When? Why? Implications?1
- Jeff Manza, Clem Brooks
- Economics, SociologyAmerican Journal of Sociology
- 1 March 1998
Social scientists and political commentators have frequently pointed to differences between men and women in voting and policy attitudes as evidence of an emerging "gender gap" in U.S. politics.…
Social Policy Responsiveness in Developed Democracies
- Clem Brooks, Jeff Manza
- Economics
- 1 June 2006
Do mass policy preferences influence the policy output of welfare states in developed democracies? This is an important issue for welfare state theory and research, and this article presents an…
Why Do Welfare States Persist?
- Clem Brooks, Jeff Manza
- EconomicsJournal of Politics
- 1 November 2006
The shape and aggregate output of welfare states within many developed democracies have been fairly resilient in the face of profound shifts in their national settings, and with respect to the global…
Social cleavages and political change : voter alignments and U.S. party coalitions
- Jeff Manza, Clem Brooks
- Political Science, History
- 1 July 2001
Introduction 1. The Sociological Tradition in Political Behaviour Research 1. Social Cleavages and American Politics 3. Class 4. Religion 5. Gender 6. Race and the Social Bases of Voter Alignments 7.…
Public Attitudes Toward Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States
- Jeff Manza, Clem Brooks, C. Uggen
- Political Science, Law
- 1 June 2004
Since passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, debates about suffrage in the United States have largely shifted from questions about formal individual rights to participation to questions of…
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