| Jeff Manza | |
| Birth Name: | Jeff Manza |
| Fields: | Sociology |
| Workplaces: | New York University Northwestern University |
| 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 |
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| Known For: | Social inequality political sociology |
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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).[1] [2] [3] He has also researched the relationship between support for government programs and economic downturns.[4] 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.