Jeffrey Broadbent

Jeffrey Praed Broadbent (born in 1944) is a Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota whose academic focus includes comparative sociology; environmental sociology; Japanese society; political networks; political sociology; multidimensional theoretical explanation; social movements; Integrative Structurational Analysis. He is also a member of the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Education

Broadbent received a B.A. (1974) in religious studies-Buddhism at the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. (1975) in Regional Studies—Japan at Harvard University, and a Ph.D. (1982) in sociology at Harvard University.

Academic career

From 1983-86, he was a Junior Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan, with concurrent appointments as assistant professor, Dept. of Sociology and senior researcher, Center for Japanese Studies. In 1986, he became assistant professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Minnesota, retiring there as full professor in 2021.

In 2007 Broadbent initiated the COMPON Project (Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks), an ongoing international research project comparing the politics and governance processes of making climate change mitigation policies in 20 countries around the world. The COMPON project members have produced over 150 research papers. This project has received grants from the US National Science Foundation and other countries’ science foundations.

From 1988 to 1989, Broadbent was a grantee of the Japan-United States Educational Commission (a Fulbright Program), and was a Fulbright-Hays scholar from 1989-1990. He received the SSRC/Abe Fellowship for 2005-6. Broadbent was awarded two academic prizes for his book, Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest (Cambridge University Press, 1998), the best book award from the Section on Environmental Sociology of the American Sociological Association (2000) and the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in Japan (2001) . .

Selected publications

• Broadbent, J. (2024). “Power and Theory: Toward a Multidimensional Explanation of the Dynamic Political Field.” Journal of Political Power (17) 3.
• Broadbent, J. (1998). Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521665744
• Knoke, David; Franz Pappi; Jeffrey Broadbent, Yutaka Tsujinaka (1996). Comparing Policy Networks: Labor Politics in the U.S., Germany, and Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521499275

External Links

• Research Website. “[1].”