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Jeffrey P. Broadbent

Protrait: Jeffrey Broadbent

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1982 Harvard University
Room 1026 Social Sciences
Phone: 612-624-1828
Email: broad001@umn.edu

Curriculum Vitae

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.

Selected Publications

"Science and Climate Change Policy Making: A Comparative Network Perspective" in Akimasa Sumi, Ken Fukushi and Ai Hiramatsu, editors, Climate Strategies for Global Sustainability. Forthcoming 2010. New York: Springer.

East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest and Change, edited with Vicky Brockman. Forthcoming 2009. 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.