Jeffrey P. Broadbent
Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1982 Harvard University
Room 1026 Social Sciences
Phone: 612-624-1828
Email: broad001@umn.edu
Interest Areas
Political Sociology; Network Analysis; Institutions and Culture; Social Movements; Japan; East Asia; Cross-national Comparison; Environmental Politics.
Current Research
COMPON-Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks – comparative study with teams in 17 countries collecting matched network survey data. Effect of participatory venues and advocacy coalitions on the use of scientific predictions about climate change as the basis for national policy. Funded by National Science Foundation
Culture, Structure and Networks: Effects of reciprocity networks on political processes in Japan, in the U.S. and Germany.
Pathways to Participation: Effects of international networks on the participation of environmental NGOs in government policy formation – the case of Japanese climate change policy.
Social movements in East Asia – an edited book with chapters by 18 East Asian social scientists.
Environmental movements/NGOs and the state in China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan: Selective Permission and Mobilization Opportunities. Funded by East Asian Institute, Seoul, ,Korea.
Recent Publications
East Asian Social Movements: Challenging the Developmental State, edited with Vicky Brockman. Forthcoming 2008. New York: Springer.
“The Effect of ‘Social Expectation’ on the Development of Civil Society in Japan” with Koichi Hasegawa and Chika Shinohara. 2007. Journal of Civil Society. 3(2): 179-203.
“Social Movements and the Environment,” with Brendan Barrett. 2005. Chapter in Ecological Modernisation in Japan, B. Barrett and Dana Fisher, eds. New York: Routledge.
“Japan’s Environmental Politics: Recognition and Response Processes.” 2005. Environmental Management in Japan, Hidefumi Imura and Miranda Schreurs, eds. New York: The World Bank and Elsevier Press.
“Identity Dynamics: Movement Mobilization in the U.S. and Japan.” 2005. Economic and Political in Comparative Perspective,Charles Tilly and Maria Kousis, eds. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
“Movement in Context: Thick Social Networks and Environmental Mobilization in Japan.” 2003. Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action, M. Diani and D. McAdam, eds. New York: Oxford University Press.