Jeffrey Broadbent

Jeffrey Praed Broadbent (born in 1944) is an emeritus professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota whose academic focus includes comparative sociology; environmental sociology; Japanese society; political networks; political sociology and social movements.^[1] He is also a member of the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.^[2]

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. ^[3][4]

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 to 1990. He received the Social Science Research Council's Abe Fellowship for 2005–6. Broadbent was awarded two academic prizes for his book, Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest, the best book award from the Section on Environmental Sociology of the American Sociological Association (2000)^[5] and the Masayoshi Ōhira Memorial Prize in Japan (2001)^[6][7]

• 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

• Broadbent's research website