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Jeffrey M. Berry
Researcher at Tufts University
Publications - 77
Citations - 5484
Jeffrey M. Berry is an academic researcher from Tufts University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Sustainability. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 71 publications receiving 5203 citations. Previous affiliations of Jeffrey M. Berry include Purdue University & American Political Science Association.
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Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that sixty percent of recent lobbying campaigns failed to change policy despite millions of dollars spent trying, and that resources explain less than five percent of the difference between successful and unsuccessful efforts.
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The interest group society
Jeffrey M. Berry,Clyde Wilcox +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of public opinion and grass-roots lobbying in the formation of political action committees and the rise of issue networks, and discuss the influence of bias and representation.
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The rebirth of urban democracy
TL;DR: The Rebirth of Urban Democracy as discussed by the authors examines cities that have created systems of neighborhood government and incorporated citizens in public policymaking and finds that neighborhood based participation is the key to revitalizing American democracy.
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Validity and Reliability Issues in Elite Interviewing
TL;DR: The early important empirical works on policymaking in Washington were built around elite interviews as mentioned in this paper, and there are few other contemporary political scientists working on public policymaking who have built reputations for their methodological skills as interviewers.
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From Incivility to Outrage: Political Discourse in Blogs, Talk Radio, and Cable News
Sarah Sobieraj,Jeffrey M. Berry +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors attempt to conceptualize and measure more dramatic types of political incivility, which they termed "outrage" discourse, which involves efforts to provoke a visceral response from the audience, usually in the form of anger, fear, or moral righteousness through the use of overgeneralizations, sensationalism, misleading or patently inaccurate information, ad hominem attacks, and partial truths about opponents.