Jeffrey Broadbent

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Full) at University of Minnesota

This paper compares twelve social movements, all supporting or opposing environmental and industrialization issues, which occurred in the sixties and seventies in one prefecture in southern Japan, The independent variable is the type of local social fabric they arose within; the dependet variables, their mobilization process and goals. The data was...

The media represents a discursive site with actors trying to influence the discourse on a particular subject. The paper delves into an exploratory analysis of the policy discourse around climate change in India during the 2015 Paris Agreement by tapping into the data from the print media. Employing Discourse Network Analysis (DNA) and drawing theor...

This essay summarizes and comments on some of the recent contributions to theories of complex governance and the varieties of democracy made by Volker Schneider. Building on his empirical research agenda using the policy network approach, Schneider has greatly expanded our theoretical concepts for understanding political systems. He has taught us t...

Why do some countries enact more ambitious climate change policies than others? Macro level economic and political structures, such as the economic weight of fossil fuel industries, play an important role in shaping these policies. So do the national science community and the national culture of science. But the process by which such macro-structur...

Abstract National climate policies are shaped by international organizations (IOs) and global norms. Drawing from World Society Theory and the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), we develop two related arguments: (1) one way in which IOs can influence national climate policy is through their engagement in mass-mediated national policy debates and (...

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) asserts that disagreement over policy core beliefs divides organizations into competing coalitions. We apply Discourse Network Analysis to 1,410 statements in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today to investigate what kinds of beliefs contribute to coalition formation in the climate change polic...

Reducing global emissions will require a global cosmopolitan culture built from detailed attention to conflicting national climate change frames (interpretations) in media discourse. The authors analyze the global field of media climate change discourse using 17 diverse cases and 131 frames. They find four main conflicting dimensions of difference:...

and Keywords This chapter explains the method of policy network (PN) analysis and its benefits (and limits) for cross-national comparative analysis. The purpose of the PN approach is to understand how the structure of relationships among organizations engaged in a policy domain affects the content of policy and outcomes. The chapter illustrates the...

The project on Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks (Compon) investigates the reasons for cross-societal variation in the direction of emissions levels of carbon dioxide since 1990. The project consists of research teams in 19 cases (countries or the region of Taiwan) plus a coordinating and integrating team that has been collecting data on thi...

Social network analysis (SNA) can be used to consider the interactive effects of the social and natural sciences as well as the humanities in such a conjoint way as to enable to the study of societal patterns and dynamics as unified systems of action and change. In contrast to previous attempts at this type of integration, which have remained large...

Through the promulgation of science, norms and rules about climate change, the United Nations has been trying to build a global community of agreement, concern and action. This essay compares the changing response of five Asian societies, namely, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan to the emerging UN global climate change community. Data co...

Besides being fascinating accounts of social movements, what lessons for social movement theory do these chapters offer? Do they tell us anything about the role of culture in social movement theory? Do they introduce new concepts and theories that can expand our analytical toolkit? The concept of culture poses a challenge for the dominant structura...

The licensed prostitutes of Taiwan kept to themselves, out of the public eye. They worked in a ramshackle part of Taipei, in old wooden two-story pre-war buildings. They did not particularly like their work, but they were aging and it was the only trade they knew. Impoverished and social pariahs, they were still proud of their independence. Their l...

Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks (Compon) is an international research project on the factors that determine the capacity and success of nations and global agreements to reduce levels of atmospheric greenhouse gasses. Countries and their policy actors have developed a range of responses to GCC from some positive action to outright denial wi...

In the study of civil society and social movements, most cases are based in Western Europe and North America. These two areas of the world have similar histories and political ideals and structures in common which in turn, affect the structure of its civil society. In studying civil society in Asia, a different understanding of history, politics, a...

When the author was conducting field work on environmental politics in Japan (1978–1981), he and his family (wife, son 1, daughter 3) lived in a small mountain farming village in Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. In this area, terraces of rice paddies held up by hand-built stone walls stepped down the mountainsides. Hundreds of years ago, the residen...

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This paper proposes a theoretical explanation for the impact of ‘social expectation’ on the growth of civil society in Japan. Why has civil society developed as it has in Japan? Contrary to the image of Japan as a ‘strong and controlling’ nation-state, we find that private citizens—the non-governmental organization (NGO) leaders, scholars on commun...

Presents a case for a network version of the concept of political opportunity structure, focusing on environmental movement activity in eight communities in Japan. Embeddedness in specific networks shapes political action much more strongly in densely knit societies like Japan than in Western, individualistic societies; in Japan, networks operate m...

Social capital, derived from voluntary cooperative relationships and memberships, is thought to enhance a groups capacity to attain a common good. Japan enjoys plentiful social capital, which affects all aspects of society, even politics. One would expect that social capital would facilitate parties to arrive at equitable labor policies and reduce...

Introduction Businesses and other organizations operate under conditions strongly influenced by politics and government-the state. In all the industrialized capitalist democratic societies, the state allocates major resources, both financial and regulatory. Its “interference” in markets and business operations, especially in the form of regulations...

After World War Two, Japan attained economic growth but suffered environmental disaster. In response to massive protest in the 1960s and 1970s, the Japanese government rapidly reduced the worst air and water pollution. Jeffrey Broadbent's case study of industrial growth and pollution in a rural Japanese prefecture explains this response while testi...

Jeffrey Broadbent, Technopoles and urban planning in Japan The Technopolis Plan seeks to slow down deindustrialisation and spread out in a more balanced way the population and its activities. But the implantations linked to the technopolis Plan do not in fact correspond to the targets fixed. Prosperous high tech. factories are of an older implantat...

The elite coalition that pushes local industrial growth is composed of six actors: local state, business, and party and national state, business, and party. The question of which dominates the coalition reflects current debates about the structure of power in capitalist society. This paper addresses these debates through the detailed study of a gro...

Political conflict poses questions about social cohesion, power, and change that culturalist and materialist theories answer very differently. Comparative sociology requires a method for the integrated and weighted use of their answers. The following case study of environmental politics in Japan develops and illustrates the use of such a method. Th...

Attempts to redistribute the power of the state, such as through greater citizen participation in policy decision-making, usually end in failure. Scholars attribute that failure to a variety of causes: the clumsiness or self-interestedness of bureaucracy, an elitist official culture, demand overload, or pressure from a dominant class. These explana...

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1982. Includes bibliographical references. Microfilm.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1982. Includes bibliographical references. Photocopy of typescript.