Jeffrey Praed Broadbent (born in 1944) is an

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in the Department of

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at the

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whose academic focus includes comparative sociology;

environmental sociology Environmental sociology is the study of interactions between societies and their natural environment. The field emphasizes the social factors that influence environmental resource management and cause environmental issues, the processes by wh ...

; Japanese society; political networks; political sociology and social movements. He is also a member of the Institute for Global Studies at the

Education

Broadbent received a B.A. (1974) in religious studies-Buddhism at the

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, an M.A. (1975) in Regional Studies—Japan at

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, and a Ph.D. (1982) in sociology at Harvard University.

Academic career

From 1988 to 1989, Broadbent was a grantee of the Japan-United States Educational Commission (a

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), and was a Fulbright-Hays scholar from 1989 to 1990. He received the

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'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) and the Masayoshi Ōhira 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. * 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.

References

External links

Broadbent's research website
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