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JEFFREY PRAED BROADBENT
IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
Academic Rank
Associate Professor – University of Minnesota Sociology Department
Associate Professor- University of Minnesota Institute for Global Studies
Education
Degree Institution Date Degree Granted
B.A. University of California, Berkeley 1974
Department of Religious Studies-Buddhism,
high honors, distinction in scholarship
M.A. Harvard University 1975
Department of Regional Studies-East Asia
Ph.D. Harvard University 1982
Department of Sociology
Dissertation title: State and Citizen in Japan: Social Structure and Policy-Making
for a 'New Industrial City,' 1960-1980. Advisor: Professor Ezra Vogel
Foreign Language Study 1979-81 Foreign Research Fellow, University of Tokyo, Japan
1971-72 Intensive Japanese, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
Language Skills Japanese: Fluency in speaking and reading, good competency in writing
Chinese: Two years of study; some speaking and reading ability
Positions/Employment
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1986-present
Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology 1997-present
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology 1986-1997
Associate Professor, Institute for Global Studies 2004-present
Affiliate Faculty, MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Peace and International Cooperation
1993-present
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Research Scientist, Center for Japanese Studies 1983-1986
State University of New York at Plattsburgh
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology 1981-1983
Japan Center for International Exchange, Tokyo, Japan
Research Assistant 1980-1981
Harvard University
Junior Tutor Spring 1978
Teaching Fellow 1976-78
Community College of Vermont
Instructor Summer 1995
Membership in Professional Organizations
Offices
Council Member, Comparative-Historical Section, ASA, 2006-2009
Member, International Committee, Japan Association for Environmental Sociology 2005~
Associate Editor, Book series in sociology, Tohoku University, Japan. 2008~
Member, International Committee, American Sociological Association, 2003
Memberships
Society for Comparative Research (association of social scientists engaged in cross-national comparative
studies, by invitation). 1999-
American Sociological Association, 1980-. Sections on Collective Behavior and Social Movements;
Environment, Technology and Society; Political Sociology; Asian and Asian-American Sociology
Association for Asian Studies, 1980-
International Network for Social Network Analysis, 1991-
International Sociological Association, 1982-. Sections on Economy and Society; Environment and
Society; Political Sociology; Collective Behavior and Social Movements
Japan Sociological Association, 1980-81, 1989-91.
Kaiho Shakaigaku Kenkyukai (Liberation Sociology Association, Japan), 1980-
Kankyo Shakaigaku Kenkyukai (Japan Association for Environmental Sociology) 1990-
HONORS AND AWARDS FOR RESEARCH/CREATIVE WORK, TEACHING, PUBLIC
ENGAGEMENT, AND SERVICE
University of Minnesota
Affiliate Member, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota 2009-
Office for Special Learning Opportunities, University of Minnesota, Certificate of Recognition for use of
Community Service Learning in Introduction to Sociology courses, 1996-1997
Office for Special Learning Opportunities, University of Minnesota, Certificate of Recognition for Project
Adapt advising, 1996-1997
“Certificate of Recognition to Jeff Broadbent in recognition of your outstanding work in Combining
Community Service with Learning in Sociology, May 29th, 1997” from Office of
Special Learning Opportunities, signed by Carl Brandt, Diane Rubright, and University President Nils
Hasselmo.
“Certificate of Recognition to Jeffrey Broadbent in recognition of excellent advising and valuable support
provided to students participating in Project ADAPT internships, 1996-1997” signed by President Nils
Hasselmo, Mirjana Bijelic, & Jee Hyun Kim
Nomination by University of Minnesota President Nils Hasselmo for the Thomas Ehrlich Award for
Service Learning.
University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Research Fellowship Supplement (CLARFS), fall 2006.
Faculty Mentor Award, Sociology Research Institute, University of Minnesota, 1996
Nomination by the University of Minnesota for the Salzberg Seminar (1995).
External Sources
Abe Fellow, from the Japan Foundation and Social Science Research Council (2007-8).
Fellow, National Institute of Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan (Fall 2006-declined).
Institute Fellow, East Asia Institute, Seoul National University (fall, 2006).
Consortium Fellow, University of Minnesota Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment &
the Life Sciences, Grant for project on current environmental politics in Japan (2002-03)
Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize 2001 for Environmental Politics in Japan. Masayoshi Ohira Memorial
Foundation, Tokyo, Japan. (Yen 1,000,000).
Outstanding Publication Award 2000 for Environmental Politics in Japan, Section on Environment,
Technology and Society, American Sociological Association
Michigan Society of Fellows, Junior Fellow (three-year postdoctoral fellowship), University of Michigan
(1983-86).
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1975-1978).
Full tuition scholarship, plus stipend, Harvard University (1974).
Scholarship, American Friends Service Committee (1974).
Scholastic prize, Japan Consulate of California (1974).
Phi Beta Kappa (1974).
Visiting Professorships or Visiting Scholar Positions
Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, Japan; June-July, 2009, Visiting Scholar.
Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; Foreign Research Fellow, 1988-90; Faculty of Law, Visiting Scholar,
Fall, 2007; Spring 2008.
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; Center for Interdisciplinary Research; October 1~December 31, 2002,
Visiting Professor.
Stanford University; Department of Sociology; Asia/Pacific Research Center; 1998-99; Visiting Scholar
and Visiting Lecturer.
University of Vermont; Department of Sociology; 1990-91; Visiting Assistant Professor.
University of Tsukuba, Japan; Department of International Relations; 1989-90; Visiting Assistant
Professor; Foreign Research Fellow, 1988-90.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Department of Sociology; 1983-86; Visiting Assistant Professor
of Sociology; Michigan Society of Fellows, 1983-86..
Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan; Department of Sociology; Fall 1980; Visiting Assistant Professor.
RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP, AND CREATIVE WORK
Grants and Contracts
Received at the University of Minnesota
Single Semester Leave (with pay), University of Minnesota, Spring 2012.
Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota fall, 2009 grant toward course release time to
coordinate and guide the Compon (COMparing climate change POlicy Networks) project ($7,000).
Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment and the Life Sciences, University of Minnesota,
grant to hire a research assistant for the 2009-10 academic year to develop a public website on the social
science of climate change ($27,566).
Affiliate Member, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota 2009~ ($1,000)
Combined internal grants from University of Minnesota sources to host the conference, “Risk and
Response to Global Warming and Environmental Change,” Cowles Auditorium, and workshop on
organizing the COMPON (Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks) global research project,
University of Minnesota, January 25-28, 2007 ($33,000). Sources included:
UM Vice-President for Research Intercollegiate Consortium formation grant ($10,000)
University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Research Fellowship Supplement (CLARFS), fall 2006
(50% of annual salary).
"Consortium Fellow," University of Minnesota Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment &
the Life Sciences, Grant for project on current environmental politics in Japan, to be conducted in Japan,
fall, 2002 ($9,850).
University of Minnesota Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences,
Grant for project on current environmental politics in Japan, 2002-03 ($9,850).
Single Semester Leave (with pay), University of Minnesota, Fall, 2002.
“Comparing Environmental Policy Networks” Grant-in-Aid, Graduate School, University of Minnesota
($16,016), January 1998 to September 1998.
Grant for half-time research assistant for one term. Purpose: compiling an annotated bibliography on life
course research concerning South Korea. From the Life Course Center, Department of Sociology,
University of Minnesota. Joint project with Prof. Yanjie Bian in conjunction with the Social Science
Strategic Investment Proposal initiative, fall, 1996.
“Labor politics in Japan” Graduate School Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of
Minnesota ($4,800), 1993.
“Research assistant support for analysis of Japan labor policy domain network data;” Grant-in-Aid from
the Graduate School ($7,849), University of Minnesota, 1992.
“Political networks in the Japanese labor policy domain;” Supplementary grant for research in Japan,
University of Minnesota ($5,000), 1989.
“Political networks in the Japanese labor policy domain;” Supplementary grant for research in Japan,
University of Minnesota ($10,600), 1988.
“Coding field work data from Japan on environmental politics derived from field work;” Conflict and
Change Project, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota ($3,000), 1987.
“Support for research assistant to work on analysis of coded field work data on Japanese environmental
politics;” Grant-in-Aid from the Graduate School, University of Minnesota ($11,330), 1986-7.
Graduate Research Partnership Program award for summer, 2004, for research on "The Public Sphere and
the Transition to Democracy in Post-War Japan and South Korea,” with Eun Hye Yoo ($6,069)
Graduate Research Partnership Program award for summer, 2003, for research on "Environmental NGOs,
Civil Society, and Democratization: Comparative Research on China and Taiwan," with Jun Jin ($6,069)
Graduate Research Partnership Program award for summer, 2002, for research on "civil society in Japan"
with Chika Shinohara ($5,460)
“Collaborative research on political networks in the Japanese labor policy domain.” MacArthur Program
Grant for Collaborative Research ($5,000), 1995.
“Environmental Politics in Japan” Summer Research Fellowship ($4,500), 1994.
External Sources
Project Director, “Asian Responses to Climate Change: Comparing Debates and Protagonists,” panel on
Compon project results with reports by four members of Compon project: Jeffrey Broadbent, Overview;
Jun Jin, China; Koichi Hasegawa, Japan; Sony Pellissery, India. From Center for Global Partnership,
Japan Foundation, December 1, 2011 ($9,735.00).
Research Collaborator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research
Grant. "Social Networks and Climate Change Discourse, and the Role of Environmental Movements in
Climate Change Policy Networks: An International Comparison." $189,000 over three Years 2011-2014.
Principle Investigators D.B. Tindall, Mark Stoddart, Research Collaborators: Jeffrey Broadbent, Marcus
Carson, Mario Diani, Dana Fisher, Randy Haluza-DeLay, Joanna Robinson.
Visiting Scholar grant, Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, June-July 2009 (expenses plus $1000)
National Science Foundation, "HSD: Collaborative Research: Social Networks as Agents of Change in
Climate Change Policy Making" (Proposal Number BCS-0827006), October 1, 2008 to March 31, 2012
($589,539). PI. Jeffrey Broadbent, co-PI Katsumi Matsumoto.
National Science Foundation Grant # 0744020, PI. Joane Nagel University of Kansas, co-PI, Jeffrey
Broadbent, University of Minnesota, Tom Dietz, Michigan State University ($56,750). "SGER:
Workshop: Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change." Workshop designed to encourage
sociological research on climate change with about 20
sociologists and 5 experts from climate change-related institutions. NSF headquarters, Washington,
DC, May 30-31, 2008.
Abe Fellow, research grant awarded by the Japan Foundation through the Social Science Research
Council (awarded fall 2005 for 2006 – 2008, $90,370). Project on comparing policy networks and
decision formation processes concerning global climate change and carbon management in Japan, the US,
Germany and Austria.
Fellowship from the East Asia Institute, Seoul National University, for teaching and research in China,
South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, fall, 2006 ($17,500). Topic: “The comparative role of environmental
movements and non-governmental organizations in East Asian political transition.”
Japanese Ministry of Culture and Education, “Response of residents of Tokaimura to radioactive
contamination,” $200,000. Co-investigator with Professor Koichi Hasegawa as Principle Investigator.
University of Tohoku. Sendai, Japan.
Soka University of America, Pacific Rim Research Center, “Challenges to Sovereignty” Grants Program,
for research on “Effects of Multinational Agreements and International and Domestic NGOs on Japan’s
Environmental Policy Decision-Making,” ($40,000) July 2000 to June 2001.
Soka University of America, Pacific Rim Research Center “Social Capital” Grants Program: for research
on the analysis of social capital policy networks in Japan, ($35,000) July 1999 to June 2000.
Invitation and funding from the University of Bremen, Germany, to spend two weeks there to set up a
comparative environmental research project ($2,000). November, 1998.
“Environmental Politics in Japan: actors, issues and events;” Research grant, Department of Sociology,
University of Vermont ($3,000), 1990.
“Political networks in the Japanese labor policy domain;” National Science Foundation Fellowship for
research in Japan, 1989-90 ($54,000) (NSF/INT-8821714).
“Political networks in the Japanese labor policy domain;” JUSEC (Japan-U.S. Educational Commission)
Fellowship (formerly U.S. State Department Fulbright) ($52,000), 1988.
“Political networks in the Japanese labor policy domain;” Fulbright-Hays Fellowship (U.S. Department
of Education) ($46,140) (Prog. 84.019, App. PO19A80047), 1988.
“Analysis of field work data on Japanese environmental politics” Michigan Society of Fellows (three year
post-doctoral research fellowship, $57,000 total), 1983-86
“Cross-cultural study of Japanese political decision-making;” SUNY Research Foundation Fellowship
($3,000), 1982.
“Field work for dissertation on Japanese environmental politics;” Japan Institute Fellowship, Harvard
University ($3,000), 1980.
“Field work for dissertation on Japanese environmental politics;” Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship for
field work in Japan (U.S. Department of State), 1978.
Publications
Books or Monographs
Jeffrey Broadbent and Vicky Brockman (editors). 2011. East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest
and Change. New York: Springer. 516 pages. (ISBN 978-0-387-09625-4). I was the project director
and chief editor. Vicky Brockman was my graduate student whom I recruited to help with editing the
papers.
Joane Nagel, Thomas Dietz and Jeffrey Broadbent (editors). 2010. Sociological Perspectives on Global
Climate Change. National Science Foundation and American Sociological Association. 153 pages.
Joane Nagel was the project director while I and Tom Dietz worked in support roles.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1998. Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest. 417 pp. New
York: Cambridge University Press. Hardback edition (ISBN: 0-521-52464-7). Paperback edition 1999
(ISBN: 0521665744).
David Knoke, Franz Pappi, Jeffrey Broadbent and Yutaka Tsujinaka (co-authors) 1996. Comparing
Policy Networks: Labor Politics in the U.S., Germany and Japan. 1996. New York: Cambridge
University Press. 288 pp. (ISBN: 0-521-49588-1 hb; 0-521-49927-5 pb). David Knoke was the overall
project director and lead author of the book. I was in charge of the Japan case organization, personally
conducted 80% of the (120) data collection interviews, conducted the Japan data preparation and analysis,
data interpretation and co-authored of the book. I recruited Yutaka Tsujinaka, a professor at Tsukuba
University in Japan, to help in identifying contact organizations, translating the network survey and in
writing up the sections on Japanese labor history in the book.
Jeffrey Broadbent. Ensiegnment de Maitre Kodo Sawaki: Commentaries sur le Shodoka, 1935-38
(Commentaries of Zen Master Kodo Sawaki on the "Song of Enlightenment) (French translation of my
B.A. Honors thesis). 1983. Paris: Association Zen Internationale. 79 pp. (ISBN: 2-901844-02-2)
Refereed Journal Articles
Koichi Hasegawa, Chika Shinohara and Jeffrey Broadbent. 2007. The Effect of ‘Social Expectation’ on
the Development of Civil Society in Japan.” Journal of Civil Society. 3:2: 179-203. I initiated the
project based on a paper I had developed and asked Chika Shinohara to apply for a GRPP to also work on
the project (2002). The two of us worked together with Koichi Hasegawa, a professor at Tohoku
University in Japan, when I hosted him as a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, 2004. The
main integrating idea of the paper was contributed by Hasegawa, so he became first co-author. Chika
requested to be second co-author to help strengthen her vita, so I granted that.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2000.“Social Capital and Labor Politics in Japan: Cooperation or Cooptation?”
Policy Sciences 33, 3 & 4: 307-321
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1997. “The Cycle of Environmental Protest In Japan” Kankyo Shakaigaku Kenkyu
(Journal of Environmental Sociology) 3: 121-128.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1989. "Strategies and Structural Contradictions: Growth Coalition Politics in Japan."
American Sociological Review. 54 (Oct.): 707-721.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1989. "Environmental Politics in Japan: An Integrated Structural Analysis."
Sociological Forum 4(2): 179-202.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1989. “The Technopolis Strategy versus 'Hollowing Out': Japan's Regional Silicon
Valleys in an Era of Deindustrialization." Comparative Urban and Community Research - Pacific Rim
Cities in the World Economy (annual) 2: 231-53.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1988. "State as Process: The Effect of Party and Class on Citizen Participation in
Japanese Local Government." Social Problems 35(2):131-42.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1986. “The Ties that Bind: Social Fabric and the Mobilization of Environmental
Movements in Japan." International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 4(2):227-253 (special
issue on comparative social movements), edited by G. Marx, for the ASA Section on Collective Behavior
and Social Movements.
Ikuo Kabashima and Jeffrey Broadbent. 1986. "Referent Pluralism: Mass Media and Politics in Japan."
Journal of Japanese Studies 12(2):329-61). Ikuo Kabashima, a professor at Tsukuba University, Japan
helped create the data set used for this article. I contributed the analytical technique and theoretical
framework and interpretation.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1985. "Social Networks as Transmitters of Social Control in Local Japanese Politics."
Hiroshima Shudo University Research Review 1:29-36.
Non-refereed Journal Articles, Essays, or Book Chapters
Jeffrey Broadbent and Philip Vaughter, “The Network Approach to Inter-Disciplinary Study of Climate
Change,” in Michael Manfredo (ed.), Understanding Society and Natural Resources: Forging New
Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences, Springer Press (forthcoming, 2013).
Jeffrey Broadbent, Marcus Carson, Dana Fisher and Ann Hironaka, “Institutions and Governance,” in
Riley Dunlap and Bob Brulle (editors), Sociological Approaches to Climate Change Mitigation (tentative
title), American Sociological Association (book has received approval as an official ASA publication and
has a contract with Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2013). This chapter contains work on their
respective specialties by all four co-authors. I contributed a section on cross-national comparison.
Karen Erhardt-Martinez, Tom Rudel, Kari Norgaard and Jeffrey Broadbent, “Mitigation,” in Riley Dunlap
and Bob Brulle (editors), Sociological Approaches to Climate Change Mitigation (tentative title),
American Sociological Association (book has received approval as an official ASA publication and has a
contract with Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2013). This chapter contains work on their
respective specialties by all four co-authors. I contributed a section on cross-national comparison and
global negotiations and systems.
Jeffrey Broadbent, Koichi Hasegawa, Dowan Ku, Taehyun Park, Yu-Ju Chien, Jun Jin. 2011.
“Environmental Law-East Asia” In Klaus Bosselmann, Daniel Fogel, and J. B. Ruhl (Eds.), The
Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Vol. 3: The Law and Politics of Sustainability, pp. 224-231. Great
Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing. I organized this article and recruited colleagues involved in my
international climate change project plus Yu-Ju Chien, a graduate student in my UM department
“Social and Political Dynamics under Intensifying Climate Change: Proposal for a Long-Term Data
Collection Project” (5 pages). 2011. White Papers on SBE 2020: Future Research in the Social
Behavioral and Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation, Washington,
DC. http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sbe_2020/2020_pdfs/Broadbent_Jeffrey_240.pdf Accessed March 31, 2011.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2011. “Preface.” In Jeffrey Broadbent and Vicky Brockman (Eds.). East Asian Social
Movements: Power, Protest and Change in a Dynamic Region, pp. vii-viii. New York: Springer
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2011. “Introduction: East Asian Social Movements.” Pp. 1-30 in Jeffrey Broadbent and
Vicky Brockman (editors). East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest and Change in a Dynamic
Region. New York: Springer
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2011. “Conclusion: Social Movement Theory and East Asian Realities.” Pp. 481-493
in Jeffrey Broadbent and Vicky Brockman (editors). East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest and
Change in a Dynamic Region. New York: Springer
Koichi Hasegawa and Jeffrey Broadbent. 2011. “Introduction to Japanese Society and Culture.” Pp. 31-35
in Jeffrey Broadbent and Vicky Brockman (editors). East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest and
Change in a Dynamic Region. New York: Springer. In the following five introductions to the sets of
papers on social movements in a country, I either wrote the first draft and had it amended by one of the
chapter authors, or else the reverse. The results were a thorough mixture of both perspectives.
Chulhee Chung and Jeffrey Broadbent. 2011. “Introduction to Korean Society and Culture.” Pp. 137-140
in Jeffrey Broadbent and Vicky Brockman (editors). East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest and
Change in a Dynamic Region. New York: Springer.
Ming-sho Ho and Jeffrey Broadbent. 2011. Pp. 231-235. “Introduction to Taiwan Society and Culture” in
Jeffrey Broadbent and Vicky Brockman (editors). East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest and
Change in a Dynamic Region. New York: Springer.
Dingxin Zhao and Jeffrey Broadbent. 2011. Pp. 379-383. “Introduction to Chinese Society and Culture”
(with Dingxin Zhao) in Jeffrey Broadbent and Vicky Brockman (editors). East Asian Social Movements:
Power, Protest and Change in a Dynamic Region. New York: Springer.
John Clammer and Jeffrey Broadbent. 2011. “Introduction to Singapore Society and Culture” Pp. 457-459
in Jeffrey Broadbent and Vicky Brockman (editors). East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest and
Change in a Dynamic Region. New York: Springer.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2010. “What do we know and what do we need to know?” Pp. 47-49 in Joane Nagel,
Thomas Dietz and Jeffrey Broadbent (editors). Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change.
National Science Foundation and American Sociological Association.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2010. “Science and Climate-Change Policy-Making: A Comparative Network
Perspective,” Pp. 187-214 in Akimasa Sumi and Ai Hiramatsu (editors), Adaptation and Mitigation
Strategies for Climate Change. New York: Springer.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2008. “Ikuo Kabashima's Landmark Political Campaign,” Reports from the Field, in
Features, Social Science Research Council Website publication:
http://www.ssrc.org/features/broadbent-kabashima/ (accessed 2/13/09)
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2007. “Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks,” Public Sociology Section,
Footnotes (American Sociological Association Newsletter) November (pg. 2).
Koichi Hasegawa, Chika Shinohara and Jeffrey Broadbent. 2007. “Volunteerism and the State in Japan”
Japan Focus December 26 (3 pages) (http://japanfocus.org/-Koichi-HASEGAWA/2616). I initiated the
project based on a paper I had developed and asked Chika Shinohara to apply for a GRPP to also work on
the project (2002). The two of us
worked together with Koichi Hasegawa, a professor at Tohoku University in Japan, when I hosted him as
a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, 2004. The main integrating idea of the paper was
contributed by Hasegawa, so he became first co-author. Chika requested to be second co-author to help
strengthen her vita, so I granted that.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2007. Report on research project on “Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks,”
Newsletter of the ASA Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology, April.
Jeffrey Broadbent, Jun Jin, Yu-Ju Chien and Eunhye Yoo. 2006. "Developmental States and
Environmental Limits: Regime Response to Environmental Activism in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and
China." 2006. EAI Working Paper Series 6, published online
(http://www.eai.or.kr/data/bbs/kor_report/200905271123153.pdf). I initiated this project and received a
grant to conduct interviews in the four countries of the study. Upon return, I enlisted three graduate
students, from China, Taiwan and South Korea respectively, to help strengthen the historical and political
analysis.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2006. Pp. 80-84. “Foreword” (to Japan case) in Joanne Bauer (editor), Forging
Environmentalism: Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments ME Sharpe.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2006. “The ‘String Accordion:’ Network Dynamics through Space and Time” in
Global Carbon Project Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Social Network Theory and
Methodology: Applications to Urban and Regional Carbon Management (IGBP, IHDP, WCRP,
DIVERSITAS); Global Carbon Project Report No. 2, 129 pp., Tsukuba, Japan.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2006. “Pathways to Participation: Global Networks and NGO ‘Voice’ in Japanese
Climate Change Policy-Making” Keynote Address, in in Global Carbon Project, Proceedings of the First
International Workshop on Social Network Theory and Methodology: Applications to Urban and
Regional Carbon Management (IGBP, IHDP, WCRP, DIVERSITAS); Global Carbon Project Report No.
2, 129 pp., Tsukuba, Japan, 2006.
Jeffrey Broadbent and Brendan Barrett. 2005. “The Transformation of Social Movements and Civil
Society.” Chapter 5 in Brendan Barrett and Dana Fisher (editors). Ecological Modernization in Japan.
Routledge. I provided the basic data and analysis for this chapter and Brendan Barrett helped organize,
write and sharpen the points.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2005. “Japan’s Environmental Politics: Recognition and Response Processes,” Chapter
5 in Hidefumi Imura and Miranda Schreurs (editors), Environmental Management in Japan. The World
Bank and Elsevier Press
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2005. “Identity Dynamics: Movement Mobilization in the US and Japan,” Pp. 48-69 in
Charles Tilly and Maria Kousis (editors), Threats and Opportunities in Contentious Politics, Paradigm
Publishers.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2004. “Pathways to Participation: Environmental NGOs and INGOs,” in Japanese
Climate Change Policy-Making” Globalization, Localization and Environment, International Sociological
Association Research Committee 24 Environment and Society Conference, Seoul, Korea, 2004.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2003. "Movement in Context: Thick Networks and Japanese Environmental Protest.”
Pp. 204-229 in Mario Diani and Doug McAdam (editors), Social Movements and Networks. Relational
Approaches to Collective Action, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
Jeffrey Broadbent, 2002. "Japan’s Environmental Regime: the Political Dynamics of Change," Pp.
295-355 in Uday Desai (editor), Environmental Politics and Policies in the
Industrialized Countries. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2002. “From Heat to Light?: Japan’s Changing Response to Global Warming,” Pp.
109-142 in John Montgomery and Nathan Glazer. Sovereignty under Challenge: How Governments
Respond, Transaction Press.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2002. “Comment: The institutional roots of the Japanese construction state,” ASIEN:
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Politik, Wirtschaft, und Kultur, 84, S, July, 2002: 43-46.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2001. “Social Capital and Labor Politics in Japan: Cooperation or Cooptation?” Pp.
81-95 in John Montgomery and Alex Inkeles (editors), Social Capital as a Policy Resource Boston:
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2000. "The Japanese Network State in US Comparison: Does Embeddedness Yield
Resources and Influence?" (45 pages) Occasional Paper, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford
University.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2000. “Japan’s Nuclear Policy and Public Opinion,” in Nuclear Energy Policy in
Japan, Special Report, The Woodrow Wilson Center Asia Program, Washington, DC, March 2000. Pp.
6-7.
Jeffrey Broadbent and Koichi Hasegawa. 2000. “The Fallout from Tokaimura: Japan’s nuclear power
quandary shows power of public opinion,” Star Tribune Newspaper, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 4.
Koichi Hasegawa provided the Japan case data for this article while I wrote it and set the case in broader
context.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1999. “Civil Society in Japan: Through an Environmental Lens.” Published by
Japan-America Society of Washington, DC, on their website “Civil Society in Japan and America: Coping
with Change,” http://www.us-japan.org/dc/civil/cspaper.broadbent
Jeffrey Broadbent and Yoshito Ishio. 1998. "The 'Influence Broker' State: Exchange Networks and
Political Organization in Japan." in Mark Fruin (editor), Networks and Markets: Pacific Rim
Investigations. New York: Oxford University Press. I was the lead author and main theorist on this paper
using the data I collected in the comparative labor network project with Knoke, Pappi and Tsujjinaka.
Yoshito Ishio was my graduate student whom I recruited to help with the data collation and analysis.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1994. "地域開発政策決定過程を通して見た日米社会構造の比較" “Chiiki
Kaihatsu Seisaku Kettei Katei o toushite mita Nichibei Shakai Kouzou no Hikaku” (A Comparison of
Japanese and American Social Structure as Seen through the Example of the Regional Development
Policy-Making Process). International Research Center on Japanese Culture (Kyoto, Japan), Forum Paper
No. 17.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1993. "The Melting Pot versus the Pressure Cooker: Cultural Misunderstandings in
US-Japan Trade Relations." Minnesota's Journal of Law and Politics 7:11, pp. 14-19. 1993.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1993. "The Mass Media." Pp. 265-268 in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
David Knoke, Franz Pappi, Jeffrey Broadbent, Naomi Kaufmann and Yutaka Tsujinaka 1992. "Issue
Publics in the American, German, and Japanese National Labor Policy Domains." Pp. 255-294 in Gwen
Moore and J. Allen Whitt (editors), Research in Politics and Society, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Inc.
David Knoke was the lead project organizer and author on this paper, with the other authors contributing
from their individual case study perspectives.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1991. "A Question of Academic Freedom in Japan." Footnotes (ASA Bulletin),
April.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1991. “Comments.” In conference proceedings, Japan in the World III, The Cultural
Studies Perspective: The Integration of Japanese Studies. International Research Symposium No. 3.
Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1990. “日本の多元化” (“The Pluralization of Japan”). Jinjiin Geppo (Personnel
Agency Monthly, Government of Japan)43:5, No. 477. Pp. 6-8. May, 1990.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1990. “三つのルールと日本” (“Japan and Three Rules”). Human Studies, Dentsu
Institute of Human Studies. P. 45. January, 1990.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1989. Komuniti Tsukuri no Joken--Nihon to Amerika” (The Conditions for Making
Community--Japan and American). Pp. 104-13 in Community Research Group (editors), Komuniti no
Rinen to Genjitsu--Mitaka, Nihon, Sekai (Community, Ideal and Real--Mitaka, Japan, the World),
International Christian University Social Science Research Institute, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan.
Jeffrey Broadbent. 1984. "Open Forum" column. Footnotes.
Book Reviews:
Study of Personal and Cultural Values: American, Japanese, and Vietnamese by Roy D’Andrade, In
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews January 2011 40: 23-25
Culture and Sustainability: A Cross-National Study of Cultural Diversity and Environmental Priorities
among Mass Publics and Decision Makers, by Peter Ester, Henk Vinken, Solange Simoes and Midori
Aoyagi-Usui (eds). In International Journal of Japanese Sociology 14: 148-152 (Fall, 2005).
Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978, by Thomas Raymond Wellock.
In Contemporary Sociology 28 (6): 716-718 Nov 1999.
Political Sociology, by Tom Bottomore and Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World, A Derivative
Discourse, by Partha Chatterjee. In Canadian Journal of Sociology Vol. 21. 1996.
Ecology and Society, Luke Martell. In Contemporary Sociology. 24 (6): 786-788. 1995.
Japanese Social Organization ed. by Takie Sugiyama Lebra. In Contemporary Sociology. 23 (1): 22-24.
1994.
Peasant Protest in Japan by H. Bix, and Social Protest and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Japan
by Anne Walthall. In Contemporary Sociology 16(3): 309-311. 1988.
Against the State by D. Apter and Nagayo Sawa. In American Journal of Sociology 92(3):752-53. 1986.
The Japanese Social Structure by T. Fukutake. In Social Forces 63(3):868-70. 1985.
Political Opposition and Local Politics in Japan by K. Steiner et al. Asian Thought and Society 8:22-23.
1983.
Japan as Number One by E. Vogel. In Daigaku Shingaku Kenkyu (Tokyo, Japan): 57-59. 1981.
Other Publications:
Jeffrey Broadbent. 2011, Cartoon about ASA Convention in Las Vegas. November, Footnotes, Official
Newsletter of the American Sociological Association.
Syllabus for Sociology 8890, “Methods in Comparative Sociology,” (Pp. 125-140) and Sociology 4601
“Comparing Social Structures” (Pp. 60-78), in Teaching Comparative-Historical Methods in Sociology,
John Foran (editor), Washington DC: American Sociological Association, October, 2007.
“Sociology 3301: Political Sociology” (course syllabus). In John MacDougall and Morten Ender
(eds.), Teaching the sociology of War, Peace and Social Conflict, Washington, D.C.: American
Sociological Association. 2003.
“Sociology 4305: Environment and Society: A Growing Conflict?” (course syllabus). In Rik Scarce and
Michael Mascarenhas, editors, Syllabi and Instructional Material In Environmental Sociology, 5th
edition. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association. 2003.
“Syllabus for Environmental Sociology.” 1999. In Rik Scarce and David Smith (editors), Environmental
Sociology, Syllabi and Instructional Material, Washington: American Sociological Association (pp.
32-36).
Social Science Research on the Life Course in Korean: Citations and Abstracts. (35 pages) (Edited with
Yanjie Bian). Life Course Center, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota. November, 1997.
"Syllabus for Environmental Sociology." (with Leslie King). In Anne Marie Scarisbrick-Hauser and
William Hauser (eds.), in cooperation with the ASA Section on Environment and Technology,
Environmental Sociology: A Collection of Course Syllabi, 1991.
“Comments.” In conference proceedings, Japan in the World III, The Cultural Studies Perspective: The
Integration of Japanese Studies. International Research Symposium No. 3. Kyoto: International
Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1991.
Working Papers:
“Culture and Authoritarian Logic: Regime Response to Environmental Activism in Japan, Taiwan, South
Korea, and China” with Jun Jin (Tsing Hua University), Yu-Ju Chien and EunHye Yoo (both University
of Minnesota). This paper investigates whether remaining Confucian cultural relational norms of state
paternalism toward popular suffering in four East Asian societies have any influence upon how the state
treats environmental movements in those societies. Available as Working Paper at website of East Asia
Institute.
"Positive Social Breakdown: Migrant Youth, Urbanization, and Political Change in Regional Japan."
(with Yoshiaki Kobayashi). Working Paper No. 2, Life Course Center, Department of Sociology,
University of Minnesota. 1987.
"The Web of Power: Elites, Social Movements, and Structural Change, A Method of Analysis." Center
for Research on Social Organization Working Paper No. 327, University of Michigan. 1985.
Books in Progress:
日本における環境政治:権力と反対運動のネットワーク. Japanese language translation of my
book, Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest under contract from Aoki Shoten
Publishers, Tokyo, Japan.
Papers in Progress:
“Contentious Politics as Complex Network Processes: Environmental Protest in Japan.” (Under review
at American Journal of Sociology)
Jeffrey Broadbent, Jun Jin, Sony Pellissery, Sun-Jin Yun, Koichi Hasegawa, Tze-Luen Lun, “Climate
Change and Asia: Risk and Response” in Hyun-Chin Lim, Wolf Schafer, and Suk-Man Hwang (eds),
Global Challenges in Asia, SNU Press in Asia and SUNY Press in the USA (under preparation)
Jeff Broadbent and John Sonnett, “Fault Lines in Global Mitigation Discourse: A Multinational
Composite.” To be submitted along with multiple national case studies to the journal Climatic Change
to reach a wide interdisciplinary audience. We plan to submit this set of articles to the journal in March
2013.
Edited set of papers by the research teams in the project on Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks
(Compon. The PI Broadbent is currently editing the papers from eighteen cases, along with an
Introduction and the preceding “Fault Lines. . .” paper, to be submitted to the journal Climatic Change for
a special issue. These papers analyze the data of the Compon project on newspaper coverage and
framing of global climate change and national mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. The papers, all
by local academic teams, include the cases of Canada, the US, Mexico, Brazil, UK, Sweden, Germany,
Switzerland, Greece, Portugal, India, New Zealand, Japan, China, South Korea and Taiwan, Indonesia and
Vietnam. The editors of the journal Climatic Change have agreed to consider the whole set of papers for
a special issue. We plan to submit this set of papers to the journal in November 2012.
Jeffrey Broadbent. “Entangled Networks: Complex Power Formations in US, German & Japanese
Politics.” This paper compares three policy networks in the three countries, highlights the comparisons
and draws out the theoretical implications for state-society power relations and policy formation
processes.
Jeffrey Broadbent, Our Common Addiction: Fossil Fuel Civilization and its Transformation under
Climate Change Pressure. Book project. The book will compare the response of different societies to
the call for mitigating their greenhouse gas emissions, seeking through that comparison to identify the
fundamental factors hampering a more effective national and global response. The study includes
societies exhibiting different levels of success and failure in mitigation as well as different background
societal and ecological conditions that affect those responses. This book will be based on the empirical
data and findings from the eighteen case studies being conducted in the Compon project The book project
has been solicited by by the ASA Rose Monograph series as one of its projects, with intention to be
published with the Russell Sage Press. I hope to submit this book in 2013.
“Culture and Authoritarian Logic: Regime Response to Environmental Activism in Japan, Taiwan, South
Korea, and China” with Jun Jin (Tsing Hua University), Yu-Ju Chien and EunHye Yoo (both University
of Minnesota). This paper investigates whether remaining Confucian cultural relational norms of state
paternalism toward popular suffering in four East Asian societies have any influence upon how the state
treats environmental movements in those societies. Available as Working Paper at website of East Asia
Institute.
“Pathways to Participation: I/NGO Voice in Japanese Climate Change Politics,” (with Yutaka Tsujinaka
and Stephanie Devitt). Based on the analysis of the 1997 GEPON policy network survey data for
Japan.
“Context in Movement.” This paper critiques social movement theories for their reductionistic
approaches to the holistic context that social movements operate within. It presents ways to produce a
more holistic analysis.
Conference Presentations:
(Japanese title indicates presentation in Japanese language):
2012
“Fault Lines in Global Climate Discourse: Comparing 16 Societies” Regular Session panel, Political
Dynamics of Climate Change, Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Denver, Co. Sat,
Aug 18 - 8:30am - 10:10am
Discussant, Special Session: Changing Japanese Society and the Possibility for New Dynamics under
Globalization and the Resilience Process after March 11 Disaster, Annual Meeting, American
Sociological Association, Denver, Co. Mon, Aug 20 - 2:30pm - 4:10pm
“Overview of the Compon Project-Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks,” Presented on a panel
on the Asian cases of the Compon project, at the annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies,
Toronto, Canada, March 18, 2012
“Social Dimensions of Global Climate Change: Network Applications,” Workshop on Network Links:
Connecting Social, Communication, and Biological Network Analysis, Institute of Mathematical
Analysis, University of Minnesota, February 27-March 02, 2012.
“Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks: An International Research Program in Twenty Countries,”
Conference on Addressing Global Challenges through International Research Conference, University of
Minnesota, February 17, 2012
2011
“Overview of the Compon Project-Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks,” Presented on a
panel on the East Asian cases of the Compon project. At the Third International Symposium on
Environmental Sociology in East Asia with conference theme of "Towards Environmentally Sustainable
East Asia." Catholic University, Bucheon City, South Korea. October 21-23, 2011.
“Climate Change and Asia: Risk and Response in National Media” Conference: Global Challenges in
Asia: New Development Model and Regional Community Building, Seoul National University Asia
Center, Seoul, Korea. October 19-21, 2011.
“Overview of Compon Project-Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks” Round Table, American
Sociological Association, Las Vegas, NV. August 21
“Overview of Compon Project-Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks” Panel on Compon Project.
Conference: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting.
Washington, DC. February 18, 2011.
“The Differential Structuration of ACID Polities: Japan’s Butterfly State in US and German Comparison”
Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. January 27.
2010
“Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks—Interim Results from Asian Cases” Capacity Building
Workshop on Carbon Governance in Asia: Bridging Scales and Disciplines. Venue: Institute of
Advanced Studies of the United Nations University (UNU-IAS). 1-3 November 2010, Yokohama,
Japan.
Poster on Interim Results. NSF Award 0826892: "Collaborative Research: Social Networks as Agents of
Change in Climate Change Policy Making." HSD (. Human and Social Dimensions of Global
Environmental Change), Grantees Conference, National Science Foundation, September 27-28, 2010,
Arlington, Virginia
“Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks” 2nd Conference on Environmental Governance and
Democracy: Strengthening Institutions to Address Climate Change and Foster a Green Economy. Yale
University, September 17-19, 2010.
“Network Composition of Polities: Germany, Japan and the United States” Conference on Power,
Decision Making and Social Networks, European Science Foundation Quantitative Methods in the Social
Sciences Conference, University College, Dublin Ireland 25th-27th August 2010
Discussant, Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology Paper Session “Historical Sociology and the
Natural Environment” Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Sat, Aug 14 - 2:30pm -
4:10pm
"Discourse, Mobilization and National Responses to Climate Change: Interim Results from a
Comparative Research Program" Invited Plenary Speech, Plenary Session, "Responding to the New
Vulnerabilities of Modernization and Globalization" International Sociological Association World
Congress, Thursday 15 July 13:45 - 15:15
“East Asian Social Movements: ……” Audience meets Authors Panel on "East Asian Social Movements:
Breaking the Mold" with chapter authors from the new edited collection Jeffrey Broadbent and Vicki
Brockman (editors) East Asian Social Movements: Power Protest and Change in a Dynamic Region.
International Sociological Association World Congress, Saturday 17 July 16:00 - 18:00
"Social Change and the Mitigation of Climate Change: Future Scenarios." Organizer’s introductory
speech. Session title: "Social Change and the Mitigation of Climate Change: Future Scenarios."
International Sociological Association World Congress. Tuesday 13 July 08:30 - 10:30
“Sociology and Network Analysis,” Roundtable and General Discussion, Disciplinary Involvement in
Climate Change, Workshop on Consilience Among the Social Sciences in the Face of Global Climate
Change, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, April 19 & 20, 2010
2009
“Nature and the Dilemmas of Economic Growth in Japan: A Brief History and Some Reflections,” Japan
and the Environment, Asian Studies Center Mini-Symposium, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI.
September 25, 2009.
Jeffrey Broadbent, Jun Jin (Tsing Hua University), Yu-Ju Chien and EunHye Yoo (both University of
Minnesota) “Culture and Authoritarian Logic: Regime Response to Environmental Activism in Japan,
Taiwan, South Korea, and China” Comparative and Historical Sociology Section Mini-Conference,
Burrows Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California, August 12, 2009.
“Learning Networks and National Response to Global Climate Change: the Case of Japan” Environment
and Technology Section Session on Climate Change, Annual meeting of the American Sociological
Association, San Francisco, CA., August 10, 2009.
“政治制度の比較ネットワーク分析~気候変動政策の決定過程を事例として~(Comparative Network
Analysis of Political Systems—The Examples of Climate Change Policy Decision-Making Process),
Transdisciplinary Initiative for Global Sustainability (TIGS), Integrated Research System for
Sustainability Science (IR3S) Tokyo University, July 17, 2009.
“政治制度の比較ネットワーク分析~労働政策と気候変動政策の決定過程を事例として~”
(Comparative Network Analysis of Political Systems—The Examples of Labor Policy and Climate
Change Policy), Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. July 13, 2009.
“気候変動の比較社会学的分析--比較気候変動政策ネットワークプロジェクトCOMPON (根本)”
(Project on Comparative Sociological Analysis of Climate Change Policy Networks), Graduate School of
Economics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, July 1, 2009
“「科学」の活かしかた:気候変動に関する各国の政策はどのように決まっているのか” (“Bringing
Science to Life: Is it decided by different national approaches to climate change?”) Research Institute
for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan. June 30, 2009.
“気候変動の比較社会学的分析--比較気候変動政策ネットワークプロジェクトCOMPON (根本)”
(Project on Comparative Sociological Analysis of Climate Change Policy Networks), Japan Association
for Environmental Sociology, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, June 28, 2009
2008
“Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks: A Developing Research,” If Rome is
Burning…Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change, Special Session, American
Sociological Association annual convention, August 2, 2008.
“Reciprocity Networks and National Polities: Japan’s “Butterfly State” in U.S. and German Comparison,”
Harvard Networks in Political Science Conference, JFK School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
June 13-14, 2008.
“Putting Science in the Driver’s Seat?: National Politics and Global Sustainability” at Symposium on
Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change, organized by Transdisciplinary Initiative for Global
Sustainability (TIGS), Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), The University of
Tokyo and University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 25-29, 2008.
“Using the Policy Network Approach to Study Earth Systems Climate Change Governance,” at
conference on Long-Term Policies: Governing Social-Economic Change, International Human
Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change, Berlin, Germany, February 22-23.
2007
“Putting Science in the Driver’s Seat?: National Politics and Global Sustainability” at International
Symposium on Global Sustainability - Social Systems and Technological Strategies -Organized by Kyoto
Sustainability Initiative (KSI), Kyoto University Flagship Project, Integrated Research System for
Sustainability Science (IR3S), Society of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (SEEPS) Kyoto
University, Japan, November 26
“Reciprocity Networks and National Politics: Japan's "Butterfly State" in U.S. and German
Comparison,” Political Science Speakers Series, Keio University, Japan, November 12.
“Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks: Project Design and Previous Examples,” National Institute
for Environmental Research, Tsukuba, Japan. October 24, 2007.
“Reciprocity Networks and National Politics: Japan's "Butterfly State" in U.S. and German Comparison,”
Contemporary Japan Group, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, October 17.
「政策ネットワークの国際比較」(“International Comparison of Policy Networks”), in panel on
International Comparison of Civil Society, annual conference of Japan Political Science Association,
Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, October 8, 2007.
“Civil Society in Japan: Problems and Prospects,” with Koichi Hasegawa (Tohoku University) in Special
Session: Is Civil Society Possible in East Asia? Session organizer and presider: Jeffrey Broadbent, Annual
meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, August 12, 2006.
“Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks: Project Design and Previous Examples,” Forschungsstelle
für Umweltpolitik (FFU) (Environmental Policy Research Centre), Free University, Berlin, Germany,
June 15, 2007.
“Power and Participation: Global and Domestic NGO Influence in Climate Change Policy-Making—the
Japanese Case,” Lecture at UFZ-Zentrum fur Umveldtforschung (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental
Research), Liepzig, Germany, June 14, 2007
“Relational Basis of National Polities: Japan’s ‘Butterfly State’ in US and German Comparison,” Lecture
at IIASA-International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria, June 15, 2007
“Power and Participation: Global and Domestic NGO Influence in Climate Change Policy-Making—the
Japanese Case,” Lecture at IIASA-International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna,
Austria, June 14, 2007
“Power and Participation: Global and Domestic NGO Influence in Climate Change Policy-Making—the
Japanese Case,” Lecture for the Stockholm Seminars: Frontiers in Sustainability Science and Policy,
University of Stockholm, June 1, 2007
“Power, Participation and Knowledge: Global and Domestic NGO “Voice” in Japanese Climate Change
Policy-Making,” presentation at artec-Research Center for Sustainability Studies, University of Bremen,
Bremen, Germany, May 16.
“Building on a Rock: Modifying the Labor Policy Network Survey Instrument to Address Global Climate
Change Policy Networks under New Theoretical Parameters,” Conference of International Network for
Social Network Analysis, Corfu, Greece, May 2-5.
“Social Capital and Economic Governance: Japan, the US and Germany”, at conference on
“Modernization of Economy and Public Development,” VIII International Scientific Conference, State
University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, April 3-5.
“Testing Climate Change Hypotheses with Policy Network Data,” presentation at workshop on organizing
the COMPON (Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks) global research project, University of
Minnesota, January 27, 2007.
“Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks (COMPON) Project: Cross-National Research on the
Effect of Advocacy Coalitions and Participatory Venues on the Uptake of Scientific Knowledge into
Domestic and Global Policy Formation Processes,” panel on climate change, Abe Fellows retreat,
Orlando, FL. January 13-15, 2007.
2006
“Developmental States and Environmental Activism: Regime Response to Environmental Activism in
Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China,” lecture to graduate students, Chinghua University, Beijing,
China, November 12, 2006.
“Pathways to Participation: Mechanisms of Domestic and International NGO Influence in the Japanese
Climate-Change Policy-Making Process” poster session presentation, conference
on Global Environmental Change: Regional Challenges-An Earth System Science Partnership Open
Science Conference, Beijing, China, November 10, 2006.
“Developmental States and Environmental Activism: Regime Response to Environmental Activism in
Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China,” lecture at State Environmental Protection Agency, Government
of China, Beijing, China, November 7, 2006.
“Developmental States and Environmental Activism: Regime Response to Environmental Activism in
Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China,” expert seminar and graduate students, Peking University,
Beijing, China, November 6, 2006.
“Developmental States and Environmental Activism: Regime Response to Environmental Activism in
Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China,” expert seminar, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (on East
Asia research tour funded by East Asia Institute, Seoul, Korea), November 1, 2006.
“Developmental States and Environmental Activism: Regime Response to Environmental Activism in
Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China,” expert seminar, East Asia Institute, Seoul, Korea (on East Asia
research tour funded by East Asia Institute, Seoul, Korea) October 25, 2006.
“Developmental States and Environmental Activism: Regime Response to Environmental Activism in
Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China,” expert seminar and graduate students, National Taiwan
University, October 17, 2006. (on East Asia research tour funded by East Asia Institute, Seoul, Korea).
“Developmental States and Environmental Activism: Regime Response to Environmental Activism in
Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China,” expert seminar, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, October 12,
2006. (on East Asia research tour funded by East Asia Institute, Seoul, Korea).
“The Effects of ‘Social Expectation’ on the Development of Civil Society in Japan,” co-authored paper
with Hasegawa and Shinohara, Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 12,
2006.
“Relational Resource and Political Consciousness: Association between Networks with Influential People
and Sense of Unfairness on Society in Korea and Japan,” co-authored paper with Yoichi Murase and
Seon-gyu Go, Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 12, 2006.
“Social Capital Networks, Relational Schema & Macro-Distribution of Power: The Japanese “Butterfly
State” in US and German Comparison,” Annual meeting of the International Network for Social Network
Analysis, Vancouver, Canada, April 30, 2006.
“Pathways to Participation: Mechanisms of Domestic and International NGO Influence in the Japanese
Climate-Change Policy-Making Process,” Annual meeting of the International Network for Social
Network Analysis, Vancouver, Canada, April 29, 2006.
2005
“Between Birth and Re-Absorption: The Mother State and Civic Autonomy in Japan,” Conference on
Straddling State and Society: Challenges and Insights from Ambiguous Associations, University of Iowa,
Iowa City, Iowa. November 11 and 12.
“Using the Policy Network Approach to Study the Environmental Policy-Making Process: the Case of
International and Domestic Environmental NGOs and the Japanese Government.” 6th Open Meeting of
the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research
Community, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, October 9-13 (paper accepted but I declined due to lack
of funding).
“The Network Flow of Influential Information in Climate Change Policy-Making: the Case of Japan,”
Poster presentation, U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Workshop, “Climate Science in
Support of Decision-making,” November 14-16, 2005, Washington, DC. (paper accepted but I declined
due to lack of funding).
“The Myopia of American Sociology: Insights from East Asia,” presider and organizer, Special Session
Designed panel and invited speakers from China, Japan and South Korea (as well as Taiwan that
cancelled) to critique the utility of sociological concepts from the United States in explaining social
phenomenon in their own societies. Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 14, 2005
“Social Capital in Policy Networks: Japan’s ‘Butterfly State’ in US and German Comparison” invited
presentation at the Japan Sociology Network, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 14, 2005.
“From Idealism to Profitability: The Transformation of Participatory Incentives in Green Energy
Movements” Co-author with Professor Koichi Hasegawa. Presentation (by Professor Hasegawa) at
roundtable organized by Section on Social Movements and Collective Behavior, 100th annual meeting of
the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 13, 2005.
“The String Accordion: Network Dynamics through Social Space and Time,” Japan Association for
Mathematical Sociology, University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan, June 27, 2005.
"Pathways to Participation: Global Networks and NGO “Voice” in Japanese Climate Change
Policy-Making," Global Carbon Project conference keynote address, National Institute of Environmental
Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, April 5th, 2005
“The String Accordion: Network Dynamics through Social Space and Time,” Global Carbon Project
conference keynote address, National Institute of Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, April 4th, 2005.
"Pathways to Participation: Global Networks and NGO “Voice” in Japanese Climate Change
Policy-Making," Workshop on International Economic Policy, Freeman Center for International
Economic Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, and the University of Minnesota
International Trade Consortium. Tuesday, March 22
2004
“Pathways to Participation: Domestic and International NGOs in Japanese Climate Change Politics,”
Conference on Globalization, Localization and the Environment, jointly hosted by the Korean Association
for Environmental Sociology, the Korean sociological Association, and Research Committee 24:
Environment and Society of the International Sociological Association, Seoul National University, Seoul,
South Korea, June 27-30
“Discussant,” Workshop VI: Modernity, Post-modernity and Globalization in Europe and Japan,
Tohoku-Cambridge Forum, University of Cambridge, England, June 11
“Social Capital in Japanese Labor Politics,” Conference on Bridging Levels of Analysis: Interdisciplinary
Conversations on Social Capital Research, University of Minnesota, May 13-14
2003
“Testing Treadmill & Ecological Modernization Theories: The Biophysical and Institutional Context of
Japanese Environmental Politics,” Conference on the Treadmill of Production, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI. October, 2003.
“The 'Ontological Contingency' of Political Strategy,” Section on Collective Behavior and Social
Movements Paper Session on Culture and Social Movements: Framing, Identity, and Diffusion Processes,
Annual Conference, American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia, August 18th, 2003
“National Character Revisited: Japanese Modal Personality, Relational Patterns and Macro-Social
Formation in Comparative Perspective.” Keynote address presented at the Sixth European Regional
Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Budapest, July 12-16, 2003.
"’Village Society’ versus ‘Civil Society:’ The Ironic Growth of Voluntary Organizations in
’Group-oriented’ Japan", at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of
Socio-Economics, Aix en Provence, France, June 26 - 28, 2003 (attended conference but could not present
prepared paper due to illness).
“Japan's Environmental Politics: Contexts and Capacities,” Presented at World Bank conference on
“Environmental Management in Japan,” in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference was a “dissemination
conference” hosted by the World Bank to publicize the forthcoming publication of our collective book,
Environmental Management in Japan (expected 2004), June 21-22, 2003.
2002
“Seiji Sanka e no Hosomichi” (Pathways to Participation: Domestic and International NGOs in Japanese
Climate Change Politics), National Institute of Environmental Studies, NIES, Dec 20th.
“Seiji Sanka e no Hosomichi” (Pathways to Participation: Domestic and International NGOs in Japanese
Climate Change Politics), Sophia (Jochi) University, Tokyo, Japan. Dec 19th.
“Nihon no Shimin Katsudo ni Tsuite” (On Citizen Activism in Japan), Talk to a gathering of NGO
activists and organizers, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. Dec. 9.
“Seiji Sanka e no Hosomichi” (Pathways to Participation: Domestic and International NGOs in Japanese
Climate Change Politics), Annual Conference of the Japan Association for Environmental Sociology,
Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan. December 7, 2002.
“Seiji Sanka e no Hosomichi” (“Pathways to Participation: Network Analysis of Domestic and
International NGOs in Japanese Climate Change Politics”), Special Lecture Meeting, University of
Tohoku, Sendai, Japan, December 5th.
“Seiji Sanka e no Hosomichi” (Pathways to Participation: Domestic and International NGOs in Japanese
Climate Change Politics), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. December 3, 2002.
“The ‘Butterfly State:’ the internal structure of Japan’s network corporatism,” Institute of Sociology,
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 29th.
“Environmental NGOs and Movements: Japan and the US compared,” New World University (Seshin
Dashue), Taipei, Taiwan, November 27th.
“Pathways to Participation: Domestic and International NGOs in Japanese Climate Change Politics,”
Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Nov. 26th.
“The Japanese Network State in US Comparison: Does Embeddedness Yield Resources and Influence?”
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, November 22nd..
“Seiji Sanka e no Hosomichi” (Pathways to Participation: Domestic and International NGOs in Japanese
Climate Change Politics), Environmental Colloquium, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Tohoku
University, Sendai, Japan, Nov. 13, 2002
“Chouchou Kokka: Nihon no Seiji in okeru Shakai Kankei Shihon, Kaikyuteki Tairitsu to Shimin Shakai
no Haijyō” (Butterfly State:’ Did Japan’s surplus of social capital produces its deficit of financial capital?)
Keio University, Kobayashi graduate seminar, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 11, 2002.
“Future Directions for Environmental Sociology in Japan,” Annual meeting of the Japan Association for
Environmental Sociology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan. Sunday, October 27.
“Wrestling with the Minotaur: Tillean Structuralism, Economic Opportunities and Environmental
Mobilization in Japan,” Conference in Honor of Charles Tilly on the occasion of his honorary doctorate
from the University of Crete, Rethimno, Crete, Greece. October 18
“Pathways to Participation: Domestic and International NGOs in Japanese Climate Change Politics,”
United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, Monday, October 14.
“Pathways to Participation: Domestic and International NGOs in Japanese Climate Change Politics,”
Kankyu Keizai to Seisaku Gakkai no Taikai, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, September 27 and 28.
“American Global Primacy: the view from Japan.” Panel on Views of American Global Primacy,
organized by Neil Smelser and Mattei Dogan, International Sociological Association, XV World
Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, July.
“The ‘String Accordion:’ Combining Culture and Structure in Comparative-Historical Research.” Panel
on New Directions in Comparative Methods, RC20 Comparative Sociology, International Sociological
Association, XV World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, July.
“The Tyranny of Ties: How Japan's plentiful social capital produced a deficit of financial capital.”
Asia-Pacific Sociology Association, Annual Meeting, Brisbane, July 5-8, 2002.
2001
“The Role of Domestic NGOs in Networking Global Climate Change Concerns into Japan” (co-authored
with Stephanie Devitt). Kyoto Environmental Sociology Conference, Kyoto, Japan. October 21-23.
“The ‘String Accordion:’ Combining Culture and Structure in Historical-Comparative Research.”
American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA. August 21.
“The Role of Domestic NGOs in Networking Global Climate Change Concerns into Japan” (co-authored
with Stephanie Devitt). American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA. August
18.
“International Environmental NGOs Pressure the Japanese State,” at the mini-conference on Globalization
and the Environment: Prospects and Perils, Co-sponsored by the ASA sections on Environment and
Technology and the Political Economy of the World System, August 17th, Anaheim, CA.
“The ‘String Accordion:’ Combining Culture and Structure in Historical-Comparative Research.” Sixth
Annual Meeting of the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association. University of
Minnesota, May 4-5.
“The Japanese Network State in US Comparison: Does Embeddedness Yield Resources and Influence?”
Minnesota International Relations Colloquium, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota,
April 2.
“Japan: the political dynamics of a vertical society.” Carlton College, Northfield, MN. March 1.
“Global Climate Change: A Challenge to Japanese State Sovereignty?” Conference on “Challenges to
Sovereignty” held by Pacific Basic Research Center in Laguna Beach, CA. Feb. 9 to 11.
2000
Informal discussion of my book, Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest at the
Sociologists of Minnesota Annual Conference, UW at River Falls, Wisconsin, October 12.
“The Japanese Network State: Boon or barrier to economic growth?,” International Trade Consortium,
Freeman Center, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota, October 3.
“The Network State and its Transformation in Contemporary Japan: Emergent Civil Society and Political
Change” Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. September 26.
“Japan’s Changing Environmental Regime: Treadmill or Modernization?” Environmental Sociology
Regular Session, ASA Annual Conference, Washington, DC., August 15, 2000.
“The Power Cube and Cross-National Research: a New Theoretical Approach,” New Directions in
Sociology Roundtables, ASA Annual Conference, Washington, DC. August 14, 2000.
“The Network State under Tension: Embedded Ties in US and Japanese political processes,” Roundtable
on Participation, Processes and Institutions, ASA Annual Conference, Washington, DC. August 13, 2000.
“Commentator on Jeff Olick paper,” ASA Culture Section Miniconference, Washington, DC., August 10,
2000.
“The Emergence of Civil Society in Japan: a Response to Development?” International Society for the
Study of Behavioral Development, Beijing, China, July 11-14.
“States and social movements in Japan and the US: Comparative effects of social networks on politics”
Social Movement Analysis: The Network Perspective, Ross Priory, Loch Lomond, Scotland, 22-25 June
2000. Organizers: Mario Diani (University of Strathclyde) and Doug Mc Adam (Stanford University).
“Commentator,” conference held to prepare a book on Japan’s environmental policies, by World Bank,
Sapporo, Japan, June 13-14, 2000.
“Social Capital and Labor Politics in Japan,” Aspen Institute, Berlin, Germany, Pacific Basin Research
Center conference for book preparation, May 8-10, 2000.
“Civil Society in Japan: “, Conference held in honor of the retirement of Professor Ezra Vogel, Harvard
University, Cambridge Mass. May 6, 2000.
“Japan’s nuclear power policy and public reaction,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
Asia Program, Washington DC, February 29, 2000.
1999
“Presentation of paper for Ron Anderson on Computers and Education,” Roadblocks on the Information
Highway?, National Institutes of Multimedia Education, Tokyo, Japan, November 10-11.
“Commentary on the Japan and US Cases.” Public Philosophy Workshop # 3, “Public Philosophy,
Environment and Social Justice,” Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs and the Uehiro
Foundation on Ethics and Education, New York, October 21-22.
“Japan’s Network State: Boon or Liability?” Center for Japanese Studies, UCLA, October 11.
“Network State and Instrumental State: Japan and US labor policy networks” Department of Sociology,
UCLA, October 8.
“Social Capital and Labor Politics in Japan and the US,” Conference of PBRC Grantees for the Social
Capital in the Pacific Rim Project, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
Cambridge MA, August 19-20, 1999.
“Politics and Markets: the Japanese Model,” Mini-conference on “Politics or Markets?,” American
Sociological Association annual meetings, Chicago, IL., August 5, 1999.
“Sources of Change in Japanese Environmental Policy: Foreign Pressures and Examples, the Proactive
Learning State and Disruptive Local Protest,” Mini-conference on “The Environmental State under
Pressure: The Issues and Research Agenda,” American Sociological Association annual meetings,
Chicago, IL., August 6-7, 1999.
“Comparative ACID Country Responses to the Growth/Environment Dilemma: Refining the IPAT
Formula,” American Sociological Association annual meetings, Chicago, IL., August 7, 1999
"The Strength of a Weak State: Brokerage in Japanese Policy Networks" to the Department of Sociology,
University of California at Irvine, May 7.
"Civil Society and Social Protest in Japan: Through an Environmental Lens" to Seminar on
Democratization, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University on May 13.
“Sources of change in Japanese environmental policy: foreign pressures and examples, the proactive
learning state, and disruptive local protest.” Seminar on Comparative Sociology, Professor John
Meyer, Stanford University, Feb. 18.
1998
"The changing faces of Japanese environmental politics: Cultural and social dynamics," International
Sociological Association, Research Committee 21, Conference on "City, State and Region in a Global
Order: Toward the 21st Century" December 20, 1998, Hiroshima University, at Hiroshima International
Conference Center, Peace Park, Japan.
“Eco-consciousness in Japan: Postwar Transformations,” Workshop on Eco-Consciousness and
Environmental Movements in Asia, Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, sponsored by the
University of Hong Kong, the East-West Center, and the National Institute for Environmental Studies, at
Shiba Park Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, December 19.
"Explaining Changes in Japanese Environmental Policies 1955-1998: International Pressures, the
Proactive State, and Citizen Protest," Dec. 16, PhD Kenkyukai (PhD research group), Shakai Kagaku
Kenkyujyo (Social Science Research institute), Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan
"Sengo Nihon ni okeru Kankyo Seiji no Utsurikawari: Seijj Katei Ronteki Bunseki (The Evolution of
Postwar Japan’s Environmental Politics: a Political Process Analysis)," Dec. 15, Kokuritsu Kankyo
Kenkyujo (National Institute of Environmental Studies), Tsukuba, Japan.
Author meets critics session (two critics and my reply), conducted in Japanese, concerning my book,
Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest. Dec. 12. Hosei University, Tokyo,
Japan.
“Non-profit Organizations in the US and Japan,” Dec. 11, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
“Nihon no 60 Nendai to 70 Nendai no Kankyo Undo no Nami to Seiji Kikai Kozo (the 1960s-1970s Wave
of Environmental Protest in Japan and the Political Opportunity Structure),” Dec. 10, Tohoku
University, Sendai, Japan.
“The Strength of a Weak State: Structural Intermediation in Japanese Policy Networks,” Dec. 8,
Tsukuba University, Japan.
“Civil Society in Japan: through an environmental lens,” panel in a series of panels on Civil Society in
Japan under auspices of The Japan-American Society of Washington, D.C., in Little Rock, AK. Nov.
17.
“Civil Society in Japan: through an environmental lens,” panel in a series of panels on Civil Society in
Japan under auspices of The Japan-American Society of Washington, D.C., in Washington, DC. Nov.
16.
“Environmental Political Change in Japan: Protest, the State and International Actors,” Sociology
Colloquium Series, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Nov. 11.
“Environmental Political Change in Japan: Protest, the State and International Actors,” Froschungstelle
fur Umweltpolitik, Frie Universitat, Berlin, Germany, Nov. 10.
“The Mobilization of Environmental Protest in Japan: material, institutional and cultural perspectives,”
Seminar of Prof. Klaus Eder, Humboldt Univ., Berlin, Germany, Nov. 9.
“Political Networks, Structural Models and Meso-Exchange: the case of Japanese Labor Politics,”
Workshop in labor policy, Institute on Work and Technology (artec), University of Bremen, Nov. 5.
“Environmental Politics in Japan and the US -- Protest, the State and International Actors,” Seminar of
Professor Svenghaas, University of Bremen, Nov. 3.
“The Mobilization of Environmental Protest in Japan: material, institutional and cultural perspectives,”
Institute on Work and Technology (artec), University of Bremen, Oct. 29
“The Strength of a Weak State: Structural Intermediation in Japanese Policy Networks,” Asia/Pacific
Research Center, Stanford University, Seminar Series on Contemporary Asia, October 22
“Political Networks, Structural Models and Meso-Exchange: the case of Japanese Labor Politics,”
American Sociological Association annual meetings, San Francisco, CA. August 21-25, 1998.
“Why do Protest Cycles Start?: Determinants of the Rise of Environmental Protest in Japan,” Workshop
on social Movements and Society: Identity, Culture and Institutions,” University of California, Davis,
August 19-21.
“Japanese Labor Politics as Networks of Organizations” and “Environmental Policy Making Systems at
the Societal Level”, papers presented at the International Sociological Association quadrennial meetings,
Montreal,Canada, July 26-August 1, 1998.
“Environmental Politics in Japan,” International Convention of Asian Scholars, Noordwijkerhout, The
Netherlands, June 25-28, 1998.
Discussant, panel on “Japan in the Global System,” International Studies Association annual meetings,
Minneapolis, March 17, 1998.
1997
“Comments on Alan Wolfe’s address.” Plenary session, A Dialogue with Alan Wolfe. Sociologists of
Minnesota Annual Meeting, Metropolitan State University, Oct. 3.
“Hearts of the Body Politic: Resource Exchange as Predictors of Power in Japanese Politics.” Panel on
Policy Networks, Communities and Coalitions. American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting,
Washington, DC. August 28-31.
“The Interaction of Culture and Structure in Protest Mobilization: A Meta-Theoretical Framework and a
Case Study of Japanese Environmental Movements.” Regular Session on Social Movements, Culture,
Structure and Mobilization.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada.
August 9-13.
“The East Asian Regional Economic Bloc: Future Prospects and relations with the US.” Presentation on a
panel at St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN., April 14.
“Sociocultural Structures and Sustainable Societies: Method of Analysis and a Case Application to Japan
in the 1960s and 1970s.” MacArthur Consortium Workshop on Globalization and Sustainable Livelihood
Systems: Local Responses to Socio-Economic Change and Ecological Transformation, University of
Minnesota, April 11-12.
“The Citizen and the Public Sphere in Urban Japan: Barriers and Opportunities for Effective Political
Participation.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 13-16.
“Networks of Trust in Japanese Politics.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago,
March 13-16.
“Meso-Networks and Macro-Structures: Japanese Labor Politics and the Theory of the State.” Ohio State
University. Department of Sociology. March 6.
“Meso-Networks and Macro-Structures: Japanese Labor Politics and the Theory of the State.”
Washington State University. Department of Sociology. January 30.
1996
“The Structure of Power in Japan: Macro-Networks of Labor Policy Making” with Yoshito Ishio). ASA
Annual Meetings, NYC, 8/16-20.
“Why Do Protest Cycles Start?: Determinants of the Rise of Environmental Protest in Japan.” ASA
Annual Meetings, NYC, 8/16-20.
1995
“The Influence Broker State: Social Networks and Political Organization in Japan" APSA Annual
Meetings, Chicago, IL. 9/1-2.
"The Influence Broker State: Social Networks and Political Organization in Japan" ASA Annual
Meetings, Wash., DC, 8/19-23.
"Network Corporatism and the 'Mandated-Broker' State in Japan," SNOII (Social Networks,
Organizations and Informal Institutions) Conference, MacArthur Program, University of MN. April
21-23.
"Network Corporatism and the 'Mandated-Broker' State in Japan," East Asian Studies Conference,
University of Minnesota, April 13-14.
1994
"Patterns of Policy Making: Comparing Japan, Germany and the US," RC 20: Comparative Sociology,
Session 6: Comparing Advanced Democracies, International Sociological Association XIII World
Congress, Bielefeld, Germany, July 18-23.
"Environmental Movement Mobilization in the Multi-Organizational Field: A Network Analysis of
Structural Change for a Japanese Case," WG 04: Collective Behavior and Social
Movements, Session 03: New Research on Social Movements, International Sociological Association XIII
World Congress, Bielefeld, Germany, July 18-23.
"Recent Developments in Comparative Macro-Social Analysis," University of Bremen, Germany. July
13.
"Talk, Trust, and Tribute: Networks of Corporatism in the Japanese Labor Politics," Association for Asian
Studies annual conference, Boston, March 24-27.
"Talk, Trust, and Tribute: Networks of Corporatism in the Japanese Labor Policy Domain," Gerhard
Mercator University, Duisberg, Germany. March 22.
1993
"The Japanese Policy Network: Interest Groups, Parties and the State." Conference on Social Networks in
Japan. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Sept. 9-12.
"Deconstructing Structure: Change in Multiplex Networks over Time, a case study of Japanese Growth
Politics." American Sociological Association annual meetings, Miami, Aug. 13-15.
Papers presented at the Third European Conference on Social Network Analysis, Munich, June 10-13:
"Communication and resource exchange networks in the Japanese labor policy domain." (with Tsujinaka
and Ishio)
"Power structure networks in the labor policy domains of the U.S., Germany and Japan. (with Pappi,
Knoke, Schnorpfeil and Tsujinaka).
"Institutional patterns of political exchange: Competitive versus cooperative decision-making in the
American, Japanese and German labor policy domain" (with Konig, Pappi, Knoke and Tsujinaka).
"Cultural Chauvinism in Japan" Area Studies Program, University of Minnesota, Feb. 18.
"Networks of Mobilization over Time," International Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, Tampa, Fla.
Feb., 11-14.
"Antinomies of Industrialization: Growth and Environmental Politics in a Japanese Prefecture." Dept. of
Sociology, Duke University, Durham, NC. January 18.
1992
"Antinomies of Industrialization: Growth and Environmental Politics in a Japanese Prefecture." Dept. of
Sociology, Florida State University, Tallahassee. Nov. 19.
"Policy Networks and Influence Reputations in the Japanese, US and German Labor Policy Domains."
American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, August 20-24.
"Testing Theories of the Environmental Crisis: An Integrated Structural Analysis of the Politics of
Industrialization and Pollution in a Japanese Prefecture, 1955-1980." Conference on "States, Firms and
Fundamental Values," under the auspices of the Comparative Sociology Research Committee,
International Sociological Association, Kurashiki, Japan, July 6-7.
"Policy Networks and Influence Reputations in the Japanese, US and German Labor Policy Domains."
Conference on "States, Firms and Fundamental Values," under the auspices of the Organizations Research
Committee, International Sociological Association, Tokyo, Japan, July 3-5.
"Comparative Policy Studies between the US, Japan and Germany - Methods and Problems." Conference
entitled "German-Japanese Symposium on Environmental and Science Policy," University of Osnabruck,
Germany, June 22.
"Testing Theories of the Environmental Crisis: An Integrated Structural Analysis of the Politics of
Industrialization and Pollution in a Japanese Prefecture, 1955-1980." Symposium on "Current
Developments of Environmental Sociology" under the auspices of the Environment and Society Research
Committee, International Sociological Association, "Woudschouten," Netherlands, June 17-21.
"Japan's Move to Core Status in the World Economy: Problems and Prospects." Conference entitled
"After the Dance: Global Prospects in the Wake of the Cold War," panel on "East and Southeast Asia."
University of Minnesota. May 15.
"Formal and Informal Barriers to the Japanese Market: How Much More Openness?, Part II." Freeman
Center, Humphrey Institute and University of Minnesota International Trade Consortium, May 5.
"'Melting Pot' versus 'Pressure Cooker' Societies: Cultural and Social Background of US-Japan Business
Relations." At conference on "Futures Entwined: US-Japan Economic Relations in the Years Ahead,"
Freeman Center for International Economic Policy, Humphrey Institute and the League of Women Voters
of Minnesota, University of Minnesota, April 28.
"Japan's Move to Core Status in the World Economy: Structural Reasons from a Study of Labor
Policy-Making, in Comparison with Germany and the US." Conference entitled, "A New Urban and
Regional Hierarchy? The Impacts of Modernization, Restructuring and the End of Bipolarity," held under
the auspices of the Regional Development Research Committee, International Sociological Association,
UCLA, April 23-25.
"Formal and Informal Barriers to the Japanese Market: How Much More Openness?" Freeman Center,
Humphrey Institute and University of Minnesota International Trade Consortium, April 7.
"The Structure of Labor Policy-Making in Japan: A Comparison with Germany and the US." Association
for Asian Studies. Washington, DC, April 3.
"Policy Networks and Influence Reputations in the Japanese, US and German Labor Policy Domains."
Japan Forum, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, Camb., MA., Feb. 21.
1991
"Political Networks in Japanese Labor Policy-making: A Comparative Perspective." Midwest
Conference on Asian Affairs, Iowa City, September 14.
"Perspectives on Environmental Sociology," panelist. International Institute of Sociology Conference,
Kobe, Japan, August 7.
"Academic Freedom and Organizational Dynamics in Japan." International Institute of Sociology
Conference, Kobe, Japan, August 7.
"The 'Treadmill of Production' and Other Theories of the Societal Causes of the Environmental Crisis: A
Test Using Japanese Data." International Inst. of Sociology Conference, Kobe, Japan, Aug. 6.
"Beikoku to Yoropa ni okeru Kankyo Shakaigaku Riron to Kenkyu: Naiyo to Komento" (Annotations and
Comments on the Range of Environmental Sociology Theory and Research in the US and Europe." Japan
Environmental Sociology Research Association. Tokyo, August 3.
"Deconstructing Structure: Multiple Networks in Power Structures." Sunbelt Network Conference,
Tampa, FL, February 17.
"How Level a Playing Field? Japan-U.S. Negotiations Over Open Markets and Free Trade."
International Studies Program, University of Vermont, November 26.
1990
"Green Limits: Economic Growth, Environmental Protection, and the Political Process in Japan." Panel
on Social Controls in Upstream Technological Systems. American Sociological Association, Washington,
DC. August 15.
"Shakaigaku kara Mita Nihon no Kankyo Seisaku: Oita ken in okeru chiiki kaihatsu to kankyo seisaku o
megutte" (Japan's Environmental Policies Seen from the Standpoint of Sociology: The Case of Oita).
Ningen Kankyou Mondai Kenkyukai Kaigi (Human Environment Problem Research Group), Meiji
Gakuin University, Tokyo, July 7.
"Seiji Katei to shite no Kankyou Mondai: Oita no rei" (The Environmental Problem as a Political Process:
The Case of Oita). Inaugural meeting of Kankyou Shakaigaku Kenkyukai (Japan Environmental
Sociology Research Association, a section within the Japan Sociological Association which I helped
organize), Tokyo, May 20.
Comments on a paper by Professor Iida Tsuneo about the Japanese economy and its world role, presented
at a five-day conference on the topic of "Sekai no naka no Nihon" (Japan in the World). Nichibunken
(International Center for Studies of Japanese Society), Kyoto, Mar. 9.
1989
"Chiiki Kaihatsu Seisaku Kettei Katei o Toshite mita Nichibei Shakai Kouzou no Kikaku" (Comparing
U.S. and Japanese Decision-making in Regional Development Policies). Presented at Nichibunken
Forum (Forum of the International Center for Studies of Japanese Society), Kyoto, November 14.
"Seiji Katei to Shite no Kankyou Mondai: Oita no rei" (The Environmental Problem as a Political
Process: The Case of Oita). Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Nihon Shakai Gakkai (Japan
Sociological Association), Tokyo, October 21.
"Kaihatsu to komuniti" (Preserving Sociability During Growth), Dentsu Research Institution, Tokyo,
Japan, October.
"Keizai Kaihatsu to Shizen no Kiki: Nihon no Kesu Stadii wo Tooshite" (Economic Growth and the Crisis
of Nature: Through a Japanese Case). Keio University, Tokyo. May 30.
"Chiiki Kaihatsu to Kenryoku Kouzou" (Regional Development and the Power Structure), Meiji
University, Tokyo, May 30.
"Jumin sanka" (Citizen Participation in Local Politics in Japan), to the Machizukuri Kenkyukai (Research
Group on Town Improvement), International Christian University, Tokyo, January.
1988
"The U.S. presidential election and the electoral college system," class of Prof. Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Keio
University, Tokyo, Nov.
"The Integrated Structural Analysis of Social Movements." Workshop on Frontiers in Social Movement
Theory, Ann Arbor, May.
"From New Industrial City to Technopolis: The Politics of Transition in Oita." in panel "Hollowing Out:
Japanese Cities in the World Economy" (Chair: Kuniko Fujita). Association for Asian Studies. San
Francisco, April.
"Introduction to Political Sociology" and "The Rapidly Developing East Asian Countries: Lessons for
China." Nankai University, Tianjin, China. March.
"The Rapidly Developing East Asian Countries: Lessons for China." Presented at People's University,
Beijing; Nankai University, Tianjin; March.
1987
Lectures on Japanese society, Bemidji State University, Minnesota.
"The Japanese Growth Machine: State and Class in Local Industrialization." Midwest Conference on
Asian Affairs.
1986
"The State and regional development in Japan." Panel on "the Relations between the State and the Private
Sector." International Sociological Association. Delhi, India.
"Keeping the LDP on a Tight Rein: The Floating Vote and Political Balance in Japan" (with Professor I.
Kabashima, Tsukuba University). American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C.
"The Political Impact of Local and National Capital in Japanese Regional Development." At a panel on
"The State and Capitalism in Japan" (organizer Jeffrey Broadbent). Assoc. for Asian Studies. Chicago.
1985
"Japanese Patron-Clientelism and Political Cohesion: a Comparison with Italy." Association for Asian
Studies, Philadelphia.
1984
"Development and Political Power in Japan." Mid-Atlantic Association for Asian Studies.
"Social Movement Mobilization in a Japanese Prefecture." Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs.
1983
"Social Hegemony and State Power: A Comparison of Japanese and European State Responses to
Environmental Movements." American Sociological Association, Detroit.
"Regional Development and Politics in Japan." Community Research Committee (organizer, Terry
Clark). International Sociological Association. Paris.
"The Effects of Buddhism on Social Movement Mobilization in Japan." Society for the Scientific Study
of Religion. Philadelphia.
1982
"Movement Mobilization in a Japanese prefecture." Quadrennial Meetings, International Sociological
Association, Mexico City, Mexico.
"Social Movement Mobilization in a Japanese Prefecture." Annual Meeting, American Sociological
Association, San Francisco.
1979
"Shakai Shudan to Undo Doinka: Aru Ken no Baai" (Social Groups and Movement Mobilization in a
Japanese Prefecture). Japan Sociological Association, Sendai, Japan.
1978
"Nihonron no Sanshurui" (Three Types of Japanology). Japan Educational Sociology Assoc., Osaka,
Japan.
TEACHING AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
University of Minnesota
Courses, Seminars, and Instructional Units Taught Soc. 1001: Introduction to Sociology (S87, S88, W92, W93, W93 CEE, W95, F95, W97, S97, SSI98, SSI98
[evening])
Honors Soc. 1001-H: Introduction to Sociology (W93, F94)
Honors 3020: The Closing Circle: Environmental Sociology-- Honors Seminar (S94)
Honors 3020: Sustainable Development, Global Justice, and the Environment -- Honors Seminar (W95)
Soc 3090, Science and Politics of Global Warming (F09)
Soc. 3301W: The Uses of Citizenship: An Introduction to Political Sociology (S03, F03, S05)
Soc. 3301W: Politics and Society: An Introduction to Political Sociology (S10, S11, F12)
Soc. 3322: Social Movements (F05)
Soc./EAS 3481: Modern Japanese Society (W87, F87, F91, F92, SSI-93, F93, F94, SSII-95 CEE, W96, W97,
W98, S00, F01)
Soc./EAS 3481X/3661X: Modern Japanese Society FLAC (Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum) Japanese
language trailer. Discussion and readings in Japanese on discrimination, minorities and the status of women (F94,
W98, S00, F00, S01)
Soc./EAS 3661: Japan and the US (S05)
Soc. 3701: Social Theory (F05, S06, F09, S10, F10, S11, F11, F12, S13)
Soc. 3755: Introduction to Political Sociology (SSII-94, S96)
Soc. 3960/4305/5305: Environmental Sociology (W92, S94, SSII-95, S97, F00, S02, S03, S04, F08, S10, F11,
S13)
Soc. 3960: Developing Countries: Modernity or Decline? (F87)
Soc./GloS 4601: Comparative Sociology (F04)
Soc. 4966: Major Projects Seminar (F99, S02)
Soc. 5301: Social Movements in a Changing Society (W93, SSII-94)
Soc./EAS 5481: Comparative Asian Development (S87, S88, W92, W94, S96, S98)
Soc. 5755: Social Structure and Political Behavior (W87)
Soc. 8311: Graduate Seminar on Political Sociology (F03, S06, F10)
DSSC 8311: Graduate Seminar on Sustainable Development, Global Justice, and the Environment (MacArthur
Program Graduate Student Workshop) (W95)
Soc. 8390 (Topics in Political Sociology): Graduate Seminar on Civil Society, Public Sphere and Social Capital
(F99)
Soc. 8390 (Topics in Political Sociology): Graduate Seminar on Social Movements (S04)
Soc. 8714/8890: Graduate Seminar on Comparative Sociology: Perspectives in Theory and Method (F91, F93,
W96, S98, S00, S01)
Soc. 8790 (Topics in Advanced Sociological Theory): Graduate Seminar on Environment, Culture and Society:
Theory and Controversy (S02)
University of Tohoku, Sendai, Japan (Fall 2002) Co-taught two courses with my host professor (Koichi Hasegawa): undergraduate course on environmental
sociology, and graduate seminar on civil society (both in Japanese).
Stanford University (1999) Soc. 111a/211a: Japanese Society Today: The Paradoxes of Progress (Spring).
University of Vermont (9/90-6/91, summer 88, 92; semesters) Introduction to Sociology (F90, S91. Summer 92)
Environmental Sociology (S91)
Modern Japanese Society (Summer 88, S91)
University of Tsukuba, Japan (1989-1990) (conducted in Japanese):
"Nichibei Hikaku Seiji to Shakai" (Comparative U.S. and Japan Politics and Society) (Year long course for first
year students taught in Japanese).
"Seiji Shakaigaku Ron" (Introduction to Political Sociology) (Year long course for sophomores taught in
Japanese)
Zhongshan University, Canton, China (May 5, 1990): Theory and Method in Social Movement Research (seven-hour seminar for graduate students, Department of
Sociology)
University of Michigan (9/83-6/86) Soc. 541: Modern Japanese Society (F84)
Soc. 597: Contemporary Japanese Social Organization (S84)
Soc.: Urban Community
Soc. 496: Comparative Asian Development (F85)
State University of New York, Plattsburgh (9/81-6/83) Soc. 251: Social Movements and Collective Behavior (F82)
Soc. 460 A/B: The Sociology of Social Policy (F81)
Introduction to Sociology
Human Service Organizations
Harvard University (9/74-6/81) Community Power Structure (Junior tutorial, F77)
Community College of Vermont (summer, 1977) Comparative Family
Faculty Development Activities Regarding Teaching Bush Program, 1991-1992.
ADVISING AND MENTORING
University of Minnesota
Undergraduate Research Projects Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) undergraduate research assistants:
Jennifer Weber (F11), Michael Fenton (S05), Stephanie Devitt (S01), Ruiko Ito; Yumi Kobayashi (paper on
working women in Japan presented at National Undergraduate Research Conference in April, 1997); Laura Kelly;
Christina Eguiarte.
Undergraduate directed studies:
Michael Fenton, Kevin Stanke, Kayeng Vang; Kurt Mather; Kristin Eble; Miki Taylor; David Brady; Joyanne
Kohler; Wendy Leo; Mere Piare; Lydia Rennicke.
Individually-designed (BIS, PIL or IDIM) undergraduate degree program advisees:
Jerry Wang (S06), K.J. Jacobson; Kevin Petajan; Mere Piare.
Undergraduate SPAN Project member:
Molly Fuller (project on Uruguay 05-06)
Sociology Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Natasa Stjepanovic (S11, Pollution and Health Disparities in Italy)
Freshman Research Award (FRA)
Mariah Weitzenkamp (S12), Phil Johnson (S11)
Undergraduate Summa Theses, Honors Projects, or Senior Papers Directed Sociology B.A. Honors Thesis Committee -- Advisor:
James Warren (summa) (thesis received best undergraduate research award from the UM Department of
Sociology, June 1997; nominated in March 1997 by the UM Department of Sociology for the Turner Award as the
best undergraduate CLA honors project for 1996); Christina Equiarte (summa); Laurie Steidl (summa)
Sociology B.A. Honors Thesis Committee: Member –
Karen Brummond (2006, co); Muhammad Bakri (2006, co); Kimberly Wick (magna); Wendy Leo (summa)
Other departments’ B.A. Honors Committee: Advisor
Yana Hirata (summa); Kevin Petajan (summa); Heidi Hawkenson (summa);
Other departments’ B.A. Honors Committee: Member
Michael Fenton (summa, Political Science, S05), Ian Kimmer (summa 03); Mark Harmon (summa 4/98); Miki
Taylor (summa); Jodi Proulx (summa); Michelle Aldecoccea (summa), Tuong Vu (summa)
BA Senior paper individual supervisor:
Jacquelyn Myhre (F12 IGS), Kevin Stanke (S11), Jerry Wang (2/07); Jeffrey MacPhail (S06), Charles Koch
(S06); Larissa Eads (F05-Tanzania NGOs); Voua Yang (S05); David Benedict (S05); Scott Stomborg (S03);
Kelly McDermott (03); Meredith Kennis (S01); Laura Helgason (S01); Hal Shifley (S01); Nathan Nieber (01);
David Bohn (F00); Rebecca Roholt (F00); Betsy Olson (June 2000); Eric Gregorich (June 2000); Avicela Esparza
(August 2000); Julie Paulson (May 2000); Jim Gaylord (December, 2000); Yumi Kobayashi (she presented her
paper at the 1997 National Conference on Undergraduate Research, U. of Texas, Austin, April 24-26); David
Heise; Kazuyo Kubo; Carrie Pluth; Kirk Eisele; Ryoko Fujimaki; Yoshie Yazawa; Laura Baugh; Heidi Brownlee;
Kathy Marfiz; John Babcock; Laurel MacLaughlin; Lydia Rennicke; David Brady; Kevin Stanke; Richard
Opland, Paul Hoffman, Dana Meyer, Dana Neddermeyer, Tim Roche, Sara Rodl, Ann Marie Theis, Alexander
Truskinovsky, Heidi Holman.
Graduate Student Activities
Master’s Student Advisees Other departments’ M.A. Committees -- Advisor:
Maren Andersen (MPP, Humphrey Institute, 2010), Nancy Young (Geography S05), Kazumi Adachi (EAS, 03);
Kathleen Drez (EAS); Jian Zhang (EAS); Doug Moen (EAS, 00); Kazuyo Kubo (EAS, 99); Kimberly Kinney
(EAS, 96); Sara Dorow (95);
Master’s Committees Served on Sociology M.A.Committee -- Member:
Fuping Li; Reiko Nakaigawa
Other departments’ M.A. Committees -- Member:
Jonathan Benson (EAS, 00); Patrick Hollister (EAS, 99); Mariko Oshiro (7/98); Karlin Sorenson (6/98); Taku
Suzuki (6/98). 1997 & before: Yoshiko Hattori; Nai-chan Mo; Thomas Upton; Tesho Koji; Sara Coomber;
Akiko Tsutsui; James Brown; Patrick Hollister; Toru Watanabe; Yasuko Sensui; Richard Forrest; Catherine
Ashton;
Doctoral Students Advised
Sociology Ph.D. Committee – Thesis Advisor:
Eun Hye Yoo (with Michael Goldman, PhD 6/12); Jun Jin (Ph.D. 07); Ana Pereira (with R. Stryker, PhD. 07);
Chika Shinohara (with E. Boyle, PhD ‘07); Samuel Zalanga (with R. Aminzade, PhD, 2000), Yuri Frantsuz (PhD
advisor current, MA, December, 2000), Badri Johnson (withdrew), Kim Ming Lee (withdrew).
Sociology PhD First Year Initial Advisor:
Rebecca Stepnitz (initial advisor, 2011-12); Anne Kaduk (initial advisor 2009-10); Jasmine Harris (initial advisor
Fall 2008);
Other departments’ Ph.D. candidates – Thesis Advisor
Philip Vaughter (Conservation Biology, PhD 6/12); Sarah Burridge (Conservation Biology, current)
Doctoral Committees Served on Sociology Ph.D. Committee -- Member:
Chen-Yu (Andy) Wu, Jin Woong Kang (PhD 6/11), Xin Xiang Chen (PhD 08); Brian Dill (until 2006); Hui Niu
Wilcox (PhD 04); Sabrina Oesterle (PhD 01); Mark Hager (PhD 99); Brian Ault; Afroza Anwary (PhD 97);
Vickie Brockman (PhD 97); Chaimun Lee (PhD 97) ; Philip Kretsedemas (PhD 97); Miles McNall (PhD 96);
Yoshito Ishio (PhD 95).
Other departments’ Ph.D. Committees -- Member
Georgios Giouzepas, Political Science, University of the Aegean, Greece, committee member); Leif DeVael
(Conservation Biology, current); Jun Zhang (Geography, PhD 2/07); Robin Gotler (History of Medicine, from
2006); Hitomi Maeda (Educational Policy and Development PhD 2006); Jack Cheng-Heng Hu (Cons. Bio PhD
2005); ZiXue Tai (Mass Communication, PhD 2004); Rado Dimitrov (PoliSci, PhD 2002), Tomoko Hoogenboom
(Japanese); Rong Chin Li (History); Petrice Flowers (Poli Sci, PhD 02); Karl Ryavec (Geo); Dan Molden (5/98);
Duane Olson (4/98); Elisabeth Irving; Seungyoung Lee; Yunhee Kim (5/98); Catherine Luther; Hiroko Spees;
Dodi Shajbuddhin; Kathy Hochstetler; James Brown; Victor Devinatz; Shufen Lin Hung; Taeklim Yoon
Directed Studies with Graduate Students Directed studies with graduate students:
Brian Dill (F00), Ana Pereira (F00), Xuefeng Zhang (F00), Kazumi Adachi (F00), Chika Shinohara (F00),
Sabrina Oesterle; Deborah Martin; Samuel Zalanga; Lorie Schabo; Sara Dorow.
Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP) Awards:
Yu-Ju Chien (2007); Eunhye Yoo (2004); Jun Jin (2003); Chika Shinohara (2002).
*Professional Student Activities
Visiting Scholars Hosted Sociology Visiting Ph.D. Students—Co-Advisor
XiaoXing Guo (with Yanjie Bian, 2011-12).
Arranged for and hosted Professor Koichi Hasegawa (Department of Sociology, University of Tohokyu, Sendai,
Japan) as a visiting professor in the University of Minnesota Department of Sociology, Fall semester 2004. He
taught a course on environmental sociology.
Other Mentoring Activities International advising retreat, May 2002: Sponsored one student, Eric Larson, to attend the Fourth International
Graduate Student Retreat for Comparative Research, organized by the Society for Comparative Research,
European University, Budapest, Hungary.
International advising retreat, May 8-9, 2001: Brought two graduate students, Jun Jin and Brian Dill, to the Third
International Graduate Student Retreat for Comparative Research, organized by the Society for Comparative
Research, Yale University, New Haven, Conn..
International advising retreat, May 8-9, 1999: Brought two graduate students, Samuel Zalanga and Hui Niu, to the
First International Graduate Student Retreat for Comparative Research, organized by the Society for Comparative
Research, UCLA.
SERVICE AND PUBLIC OUTREACH
Service to the Discipline/Profession/Interdisciplinary Area(s)
Editorships/Journal Reviewer Experience 2011: American Journal of Sociology (1), Climatic Change (1)
Pre-2011: American Journal of Sociology American Political Science Review, American Sociological Review,
Contemporary Sociology, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of East Asian Studies, Global
Environmental Politics; International Journal of Japanese Sociology, Japanese Journal of Political Science,
Mobilization, Pacific Affairs, Social Problems, Social Forces, Sociological Forum, Sociological Quarterly,
Symbolic Interaction, Society and Natural Resources, Social Science History, Sociological Focus; Sociological
Perspectives, Urban Affairs.
Associate Editor, Mobilization (official journal of the ASA Section on Collective Behavior and Social
Movements), 1998—2003
English language abstract editor, Kankyou Shakaigaku Kenkyuu (Journal of Environmental Sociology), Tokyo,
1995 - 2002
Co-Editor, "States and Societies" Newsletter of the Political Sociology section of the American Sociological
Association, May 1987 to September 1988.
Review of book manuscripts: Princeton University Press, Pine Forge Press, Cambridge University Press;
University of Michigan Press; environmental sociology text.
Committee Memberships Member, Task Force on Climate Change, American Sociological Association. Leader: Riley Dunlap.
Co-Author of two of the chapters (noted above) of what will become the Task Force report to the ASA on how
sociology can contribute to the understanding and resolution of global climate change. 2010 to 2012.
Review Panels for External funding Agencies, Foundations, etc. 2012: Louisiana Board of Regents (1); NSF Grant Proposal Review (1)
2011: National Science Foundation, Office of International Science and Engineering (1); Swiss National Science
Foundation (1); National Science Foundation, Sociology Program (1); Japan Foundation Center for Global
Partnership (1)
Member, Skocpol Dissertation Prize Panel, Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology, Spring 2010.
Participant, Review Panel for Application to the National Science Foundation Grant Solicitation 04-036 on
Developing Global Scientists and Engineers (International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) and
Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Projects (DDEP). Arlington, VA. June 1-2, 2009
National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., January 8-10, 2007 (review 14 PIREE proposals);
National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington D.C., July 24, 2006 (review of 45 proposals)
MacArthur Foundation Program on Global Security and Sustainability; Hampton Research Fund; Wall Institute;
National Endowment for the Humanities; Center for Global Partnership; Japan Foundation.
Award committee member, review of nominated dissertations, Society for Comparative Research, Lipset Award
for the best graduate dissertation, Spring, 2000.
Administration of Japanese proficiency test for admission to the Inter-university Center for Japanese Language
Studies, Yokohama, Japan. For Doug Moen, EA MA candidate. March, 2000.
Nominations Committee, ASA Section on Environmental, Technology and Society. 1996-97.
Chair, Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA Political Sociology Section, 1996-97.
Organization of Conferences, Workshops, Panels, Symposia Organizer, Panel on Global Inequality and Climate Change, for ASA Annual Meeting, 2013 NYC
Organizer, Panel on the findings on national climate change media analysis by four East Asian cases of the
Compon project. Conference: Third International Symposium on Environmental Sociology in East Asia with
conference theme of "Towards Environmentally Sustainable East Asia." Panel included Asia Compon panel with
Jun Jin (China), Koichi Hasegawa (Japan), Dowan Ku (Korea), Tze-Luen Lin (Taiwan) and Jeff Broadbent
(Overview of Compon Project). Catholic University, Bucheon City, South Korea. October 21-23, 2011.
Organizer, Panel presenting national climate change media analysis findings by five Compon teams.
Conference: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting. Panel included
Jeffrey Broadbent (comparative), Levania Santoso (Indonesia), Dana Fisher (US), Sony Pellissery (India), Sun-Jin
Yoon (South Korea). Washington, DC. February 18, 2011.
Organizer, Workshop for the Japan team of the Compon project, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. October 31,
2010. (10 participants)
Organizer, Integrative Session "Social Change and the Mitigation of Climate Change: Future Scenarios," 4
speakers from RCs 07 (Futures), RC 24 (Environment) and RC 23 (Science and
Technology). International Sociological Association XXVII World Congress. 2010. Tuesday 13 July 08:30 -
10:30.
Organizer, panel on "East Asian Social Movements: Breaking the Mold", with chapter authors from
soon-to-be-published edited book, Jeffrey Broadbent and Vicki Brockman (editors), East Asian Social
Movements: Power, Protest and Change in a Dynamic Region. International Sociological Association XXVII
World Congress. 2010. Saturday 17 July 16:00 - 18:00
Organizer, panel on “Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks.” Presentations: Project Overview, Taiwan,
South Korea, Sweden, United States, Japan. International Symposium on Environmental Sociology and
Sustainability, held by ISA Research Committee 24 Environment and Society,2010. July 9-10 (just prior to
International Sociological Association XXVII World Congress).
Organizer, “Social Change and the Mitigation of Global Climate Change: Future Scenarios,” Integrative Session
for Research Committee 24 (Environmental Sociology), RC23 (Science and Technology) and RC07 (Future
Studies). International Sociological Association XXVII World Congress, Gotenberg, Sweden, 2010.
Organizer, Fourth Annual International Compon Workshop (Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks).
Institute du Developpement Durable et Relations Internationale, Science Po, Paris, France, March 21-24, 2010.
Organizer, working dinner for participants in Compon project attending the COP15 climate negotiations in
Copenhagen, Denmark, December 13, 2009.
Organizer, Workshop for the Compon project, four East Asian case teams (Taiwan, Japan, China, Korea), in
conjunction with the second meeting of the Environmental Sociology Research Associations of Taiwan, Japan,
China and Korea. National Tsing Hua University. Taipei, Taiwan. November 12, 2009.
Co-Organizer with Jeff Goodwin, Panel on Social Movements in Historical Perspective, for Mini-Conference of
Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology, August 12, 2009 (just after annual conference of American
Sociology Association).
Organizer, panel on “Comparison in a Multi-Level Globalizing World” annual conference of American Sociology
Association, San Francisco, CA., August 10, 2009.
Organizer, Workshop for the Compon project, Japan case team organizational and methodology meeting,
Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. July 11, 2009. (10 participants)
Participant, Conference on Science, Democracy and Global Environmental Regulation, Princeton University, May
14-15, 2009.
Organizer, two Panels on the Compon Project (10 team members from different national teams and the
international case team), IHDP Conference (International Program on the Human Dimensions of Global
Environmental Change), Bonn, Germany April 26-30, 2009.
Organizer, Third Annual Compon Workshop – Project on Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks, April 26,
2009, before annual IHDP Conference (International Program on the Human Dimensions of Global
Environmental Change), Bonn, Germany (~20 participants)
Presider, “If Rome is Burning…Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change,” Special Session,
American Sociological Association annual convention, August 2, 2008.
Co-Organizer with Joane Nagel, If Rome is Burning…Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change,
Special Session, American Sociological Association annual convention, August 2, 2008.
Co-Organizer with Joane Nagel and Tom Dietz, Workshop on Climate Change for U.S. Sociologists, funded by
and held at National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. May 30-31, 2008
Organizer, Second Annual Compon Workshop – Project on Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks,
February 24, 2008, following IHDP Conference (International Program on the Human Dimensions of Global
Environmental Change), Berlin, Germany.
Organizer, Panel on Compon Project – Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks, February 22, 2008, IHDP
Conference (International Program on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change), Berlin,
Germany, Feb 22-23, 2008.
Commentator on papers, session “Gone with the Wind: Equal Rights Mobilization in the 21st Century”
Sociological Association annual convention, New York, 2007
Organizer and Presider, Special Session on “Is Civil Society Possible in East Asia?,” American Sociological
Association annual convention, New York, 2007.
Organizer, two Panels on the Compon project, 8 presentations on the policy network analysis of climate change,
annual conference of the INSNA (International Network for Social Network Analysis), Corfu, Greece, May 1-5,
2007.
Organizer, Compon Workshop --Project on Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks, founding meeting,
organization, design and methods of project, University of Minnesota, January 27-28, 2007. (~30 participants).
Organizer, Public Conference, “Risk and Response to Global Warming and Environmental Change,” Cowles
Auditorium, University of Minnesota, January 25-26, 2007. Welcoming addresses by CLA Dean Rosenstone
and former Vice-President Walter Mondale.
Co-organizer (with Ken Gould), site visit to Akewasasne Native American reservation to observe industrial
pollution and their struggle against it. Held by the ASA Environment, Technology and Society section, August 10,
2006 (day before start of ASA annual meeting, Montreal).
Co-organizer with Koichi Hasegawa of presentation on holding workshops with public pollution sites to the
Section on Environment, Technology and Society, American Sociological Association annual convention,
Philadelphia, 2005.
Organizer and presider, Special Session on “The Myopia of US Sociology: Insights from East Asia,” American
Sociological Association annual convention, Philadelphia, 2005. Designed panel and invited speakers from
China, Japan and South Korea (as well as Taiwan that cancelled) to critique the utility of sociological concepts
from the United States in explaining social phenomenon in their own societies.
Chair and organizer, Panel on “New Directions in Comparative Methods.” RC 20 - Comparative Sociology, XV
World Congress, International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 7-13, 2002.
Co-organizer (with Wolfgang Schlucter), Panel on “Session 12: Sustainability: Major Challenges and Examples of
Best Practice,” Session 12, RC 24 – Environment and Society, XV World Congress, International Sociological
Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 7-13, 2002.
Chair, Opening Ceremony, Kyoto Environmental Sociology Conference, Kyoto, Japan. October 21-23.
Translator, lectures in Japanese by Buddhist priests to attendees.
Organizer, Workshop 5, "Global Environmental Politics: the role of Institutions, Intergovernmental and
Non-Governmental Organizations." for the Kyoto Environmental Sociology Conference (KESC) (October
20-23,2001, Kyoto, Japan). Sponsored by Research Committee 24 “Environment and Society” of the
International Sociological Association.
Presider, Roundtable on Participation, Processes and Institutions, ASA Annual Conference, Washington, DC.
August 13, 2000.
Organizer, panel on discrimination in Japan, International Sociological Association, Research Committee XX
conference, "City, State and Region in a Global Order: Toward the 21st Century" December 19-20, 1998,
Hiroshima International Conference Center, Peace Park, Japan.
Organization of regular study Group on Comparative Policy Network Analysis at the Center for Advanced Study,
Palo Alto. Spring, 1999. Members: myself, Karen Cook, Elisa Bienenstalk, Coye Cheshire, and others.
Organizer, session on “Korean Residents in Japan: Discrimination and Resistance,” International Sociological
Association XXIV World Congress, Montreal,Canada, July 26-August 1, 1998.
Organizer, Regular Session Topic of “Environmental Sociology,” for American Sociological Association Annual
Meetings, San Francisco, CA. Aug. 21-25, 1998.
Organizer, Panel on “Discrimination against Japanese-Koreans in Japan,” American Sociological Association
Annual Meetings, Toronto, 1997.
Chair and organizer, Panel on “Status Conflicts in Contemporary Japan,” Conference on Authority and Cultural
Icons, University of Minnesota East Asian Annual Conference, University of Minnesota, April 10-11, 1997.
Roundtable Presider: "Social Networks" ASA Annual Meetings, Washington, DC, August 19-23, 1995.
English language abstract editor, Kankyou Shakaigaku Kenkyuu (Journal of Environmental Sociology), Tokyo,
1995 - 2002
Organizer, panel on "Social Movements in East Asia," TG 04, International Sociological Association XXIII
World Congress, Bielefeld, Germany, July 18-23, 1994.
Co-organizer, panel on "Environmental Factors in Urban Dynamics," RC 24, International Sociological
Association XIII World Congress, Bielefeld, Germany, July 18-23, 1994.
Colloquium and Roundtable Discussion on "Studying Institutions," UM, with Theda Skocpol and Steven Smith,
May 5, 1993.
Secretary and organizer, "The American Sociologists' Committee to Reinstate the Five Professors Who Were
Unfairly Dismissed from Hiroshima Shudo University" (Glen Elder, chair). Wrote article in ASA Footnotes on
the (10/90) dismissal of five Japanese sociologists who study discrimination in Japanese society, which stimulated
about 50 letters of protest from sociologists around the world. Successfully solicited letters of protest to the
Japanese Minister of Education from Senator Leahy (Vt.) and Congressman Sanders (Vt.) in 1993.
Member, Working Group on the Study of Confucianism in East Asian Development, under Professor Tu
Wei-Ming, Harvard University and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, October 1987.
Organizer, Conference on "Managing Change: East Asian Development and U.S.-Japan Trade," University of
Minnesota, May 1987.
Organizer, Panel on "State and Capitalism in Japan," Annual Meetings, Association of Asian Studies, Chicago,
March 1986.
Tenure Reviews Tenure Reviewer for promotion to full professor of faculty member at the University of California, Irvine, fall,
2011.
Tenure Reviewer for promotion to assistant professor to associate professor of faculty member at Stonybrook
University Department of Sociology (10-15-10).
Guest Lectures Guest Class Lecture, “Network Theory and Analysis” Soc 8701, graduate theory class taught by Joachim
Savelsburg, November 29, 2012
Guest Class Lecture, “Natural science of climate change & social reactions,” in Professor Bob Morrison, Selected
Topics on Climate Change & Livestock, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota. January 25,
2010.
Guest Class Lecture, “Japan in the Contemporary World,” Class of Professor Diane Peterson, Social Science
Division, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, September 12, 2009.
Guest Lecture, “Global climate change and global agreements,” in class of Professor Pat McGovern, PubH 6105,
Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, School of Public Health, UM, February 10, 2009.
Seminar Lecture, “Global Climate Change: Explaining Variation in National Responses” Hubert H. Humphrey
Institute, Freeman Center for International Economic Policy, Global Policy Seminar/Workshop, February 10,
2009
Guest Lecture, “Global climate change and global agreements,” in class of Professor Pat McGovern, PubH 6105,
Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, School of Public Health, UM, February 10, 2009.
Guest Lecture, “Social Learning & National Response to Global Climate Change: Hypotheses for a New
Comparative Project using Policy Network Analysis,” Graduate Program in Sustainability Science
(GPSS,Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, May 16, 2008.
Guest Lecture, “Public Sociology,” undergraduate class on sociology of Professor Koichi Hasegawa, Tohoku
University, November 6, 2007
Guest Lecture, “Contemporary Social Movement Theory,” graduate seminar on social movements of Professor
Koichi Hasegawa, Tohoku University, November 6, 2007
Visiting Professor Lecture, top undergraduate students assembled from a number of Korean colleges and
universities, East Asia Institute, Seoul, Korea (on East Asia research tour funded by East Asia Institute, Seoul,
Korea), October 27, 2006.
Visiting Professor Lecture, undergraduate students, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, October 26, 2006 (on East
Asia research tour funded by East Asia Institute, Seoul, Korea).
Visiting Professor Lecture, Undergraduate Students, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, October 11, 2006 (on East
Asia research tour funded by East Asia Institute, Seoul, Korea).
Guest Lecture, “Pathways to Participation: Global Networks and NGO “Voice” in Japanese Climate Change
Policy-Making” Department of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia.
April 11, 2007.
Guest Lecture, “Experiences in Research on East Asia,” East Asian Studies student club, St. Petersburg State
University, St. Petersburg, Russia. April 10, 2007.
Guest Lecture, Lessons from Japan for Global Climate Change Politics,” Humphrey International Fellows
Program, Humphrey Institute, March 2, 2006
Guest lecture, “Identity Dynamics,” in Sociology 8271, Social Psychology, Feb. 24, 2006
Seminar Series Lecture, “Social movements as stimuli to environmental policy improvement: a US-Japan
historical trend comparison from 1960 to the present,” Conservation Biology Seminar Series, Mini-series:
Conservation in Asia, Conservation Biology Graduate Program, November 21, 2005.
Guest lecture, Faculty Panel on Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Undergraduate Sociology Association, Thursday,
September 29, 2005, 4:00-5:30 pm.
Guest Lecture, “The Changing Life Course in Japan,” in Sociology 8551, Social Structure and Life Course,
Professor Jeylan Mortimer, March 2, 2005.
Guest Lecture, “Environmental Movements,” in Conservation Biology Seminar, Professor Steve Polansky,
February 16, 2005.
Guest lectures: four lectures in Sociology 4090: Environmental Sociology taught by visiting professor Koichi
Hasegawa, Fall, 2004.
Guest lecture: HECUA course on the environment taught by Julia Frost Nerbonne, September, 2003.
Guest co-teacher for three courses, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. Fall 2002. (An Introduction to
Environmental Thought, Civil Society, Environmental Sociology)
Guest Lecture, Soc. 8311 “Political Sociology,” Professor Evan Schofer, September 19, 2001.
Guest Lecture in Soc. 8001, “Sociology as a Profession,” Professor Jeylan Mortimer, March 8, 2001.
“The Japanese Network State: Spur to Growth and Snag to Recession” UM International Trade Consortium,
Freeman Center, Humphrey Institute, Oct. 3, 2000.
“The Fallout from Tokaimura: Japanese Nuclear Power Policy and Public Resistance,” East Asian Issues Forum,
UM, April 19, 2000
Guest lecture in Soc. 8490, “Advanced Topics in Social Organizations: Cooperation and Competition,” Professor
Joe Galaskiewicz, April 28th, 2000.
Guest Lecture in Soc. 8001, “Sociology as a Profession,” Professor Jeylan Mortimer, March, 2000.
“The Japanese “Network State:” both Boon and Liability?” East Asian Issues Forum, UM, November 3, 1999.
“Policy Networks in the US and Japan” Lecture to Sociology 8490, Professor Joe Galaskiewicz.
“Yowai Kokka no Tsuyosa: Nihon no Seisaku Nettowaaku ni Okeru Kozoteki Baikai Yakuwari (The Strength of a
Weak State: Structural Intermediation in Japanese Policy Networks),” Graduate Seminar in political science of
Professor Ikuo Kabashima, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, Dec., 1998.
“Explaining changes in Japanese Environmental Policies 1955-1998: International Pressures, the Proactive State,
and Citizen Protest,” lecture in Professor Daniel Okimoto’s team taught course on “The Rise of Industrial East
Asia,” Stanford University, Nov. 23, 1998.
“Culture and Social Change: a Japanese Example,” in EdPA 5128, Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Change, Prof.
Wahlstrom, April 10, 1998.
“Political Networks and Structures in Japan,” Political Science 5510, Prof. Estevez-Abe, February 1998.
“Commitments and Objectivity in Field Work,” MacArthur Program Fieldwork Seminar, February 11, 1998.
“Political networks,” in Soc. 3755, Political Sociology, Instructor Eric Larson, January 23, 1998.
“Social movements,’ in Soc. 1001, Introduction to Sociology, Prof. Elizabeth Boyle, Fall, 1997.
“What is Sociology?,” CLA Honors freshman seminar (twice), November, 1997.
“Comparative Social Psychology,” guest lecture, Soc. 8215, Social Psychology, Prof. Mortimer, February 1998.
"Introduction to Network Analysis," guest lecture, Soc. 8813, Prof. McTavish, Nov. 25, 1995.
"Quantitative and qualitative methods in sociology," guest lecture, DSSC 8110: Approaches to Knowledge and
Truth, Profs. Cunningham and Josephides, April 14, 1995.
"Introduction to Network Analysis," guest lecture, Soc. 8813, Prof. McTavish, March 2, 1995.
"Network Analysis of Japanese Politics," guest lecture, Soc. 3991, Prof. Savelsberg, Feb. 9, 1995.
"Social Implications of the Japanese Sense of Self," Soc. 8215, Prof. Mortimer, Jan. 23, 1995.
"Cars are not bullets: from shooting war to trade frictions in US-Japan relations." Lecture to University of
Minnesota alumni gathering, Alumni Day, Oct. 22, 1994.
"What is sociology?" Lecture on general field of sociology to seminar surveying different CLA majors for
freshman honors students, Nov. 7, 1994; Nov. 13 & 17, 1997.
"Societal Causes of the Environmental Crisis," Conservation Biology Program (St. Paul campus), (2/11/94).
"Field work methods," MacArthur Program students (1/94).
"Field work methods," Undergraduate area studies methods course (1/94).
"Japanese Management Style" in Soc. 5421 Occupational Sociology, (1/94).
"Teaching Techniques for Large Classes." Guest lecture in graduate seminar on teaching sociology taught by Prof.
Steve Spitzer (5/1/92).
"Qualitative Methods" and "Field Work Techniques," two guest lectures for Sociology 8811, graduate methods
course taught by Yanjie Bian, fall, 1992.
"Social Factors Causing Japan's Low Crime Rate," David Ward's criminology class, University of Minnesota, Feb.
1992.
Service to the University/College/Department
University of Minnesota Sustainability Studies Minor Committee, 2008~. Member
Fulbright Review Committee, 2008-09
Organization of UM Climate Change Network, initially with 12 faculty (and growing), designed to promote
inter-collegiate and interdisciplinary dialogue about climate change among the natural sciences, social sciences
and humanities. Started Fall, 2006. First project was to sponsor the Risk and Response Conference, January
25-28, 2007. This network was taken over by the Institute on the Environment in January 2009 with $10,000
annual funding for events.
Co-organizer, Campus Sustainability Summit, April 23, 2003.
Steering Committee, University Commission on Environmental Science & Policy, 2001-02
Member, University Commission on Environmental Science & Policy, 2000-02
Member, Korea Initiative Advisory Committee, 1995-96
College level service: Member, Advisory Cte. for the CLA Individualized Programs (2011-13)
Liaison role for establishing exchange and joint research program between University of Minnesota and Tohoku
University. Spring, 2003.
Member, Executive Committee, Department of Asian Languages &Literatures (2001-03).
Member, Recruitment committee, Dept of History, Japanese History Search, Fall, 2000.
Member, Recruitment committee, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, Japanese literature (3 lines),
Chinese literature (2 lines), Indian literature (1 line) mega-search. (To build new department). 2000-2001
academic year.
Organizer, MacArthur Workshop on “Globalization and National Response,” February 13th and March 16th,
2001. Speakers: Jai Sen (India), John Agnew (Geography, UCLA), and David Frank (Sociology, Harvard
University).
Member, Curriculum, Instruction and Advising Committee, 2000-2002
Participant, New Student Convocation, September 5, 2000.
Member, Policy and Review Council, East Asia representative, 1999-2003
Member, CLA Assembly, 1996-1997, 2000-2001
Member, CLA Course Review Committee, University of Minnesota, 1992-94.
Talk about UM Sociology Department to visiting high school seniors, October 1997.
Sociology Department service: Tenure Review of Ann Hironaka F05
PTS review of Michael Goldman, F04
PTS review of Ann Hironaka, F04
“Exchange Faculty” position with the Institute of Global Studies, UM, 2004-05
Director of Undergraduate Studies 2000-2001
Departmental Honors Representative, 2000-2001
Chair, Ethics/Grievance Committee, 2000-2001
Member, Executive Committee, 87-88, 2000-01
Chair, Sociological Research Institute Committee 1999-2000, Co-chair 2010-11.
Member, Sociological Research Institute Committee, 1992-93, 94-95, 02-03, 05-06.
Member, Qualifying Review Committee, 1996-98, 1999-2000
Life Course Center Conference Committee Co-Chair, May 1998 conference on “The Self Concept and Life
Course in Comparative Perspective,” 1997-98
Member, Promotion, Tenure and Salary Committee, 1997-98
Korean Life Course bibliography project, co-organizer, 1996-97
Member, Strategic Investment Program Committee, 1995-96
Member, Graduate Admissions and Awards Committee, 1991-92, 96-98, 01-02, 02-03, 08-09
Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee, 91-92, 93-94, 95-96, 01-02, 03-04
Member, Ethics/Grievance Committee, 1995-96, 2001-02
Historical/Comparative Area Interest Group Convener, 1995-96
Member, Planning Committee for "Social Consequences of Boundary Removal" scholarly event, 1995-96
Member, Graduate Affairs Committee, 94-95.
Member, Awards Committee, 1992-93, 94-95
Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee, 1991-92, 2004-05.
Other Service: Institute for Global Studies Service Faculty Member, 2004~
Director of Graduate Studies for East Asian Studies, 1999-2003
East Asian Speaker Series, organizer, 1999-2000
East Asian Focus Group-Faculty, 1996
International Relations Program Advisory Committee, 1995-97
Area Studies Advisory Committee, 1995-1997
Department of Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media
Program faculty member, 2004~
Affiliate Senior Member of the graduate faculty, 2004-
East Asian Studies Program:
Search committee member for Asian “mega-search.” Asian Literature and Language Program. To fill 6 lines
(three in Japan, two in China and one in South Asian.), 2000-2001.
Undergraduate Affairs Committee, 87-88.
East Asian Area Studies, General committee. University of Minnesota: 1986-1994.
Working group under Director Al Tims to prepare Title VI grant application for Federal funding as East Asian
Studies national resource center, 1992-3.
Institute of Linguistics and Slavic and East Asian Languages, University of Minnesota: Japan Literature Position
Recruitment Committee, 1993-94.
UM Political Science Department:
Japanese politics position recruitment committee member 1996-97.
UM History Department
Japanese history search committee member, 2000-2001.
Service to Community and Society
Awards: “Certificate of Appreciation in appreciation of Jeff Broadbent for your contribution and support in strengthening
ties and furthering goodwill, friendship and understanding between Minnesota and Japan,” presented on Japan
Week, 1994, from Governor Arne Carlson and Mayor Sharon Sayles-Belton.
Media activities: Journals: Interviewed by reporter from the journal Nature on the topic of “Sociology and Global Climate
Change,” February 12, 2009. Review article “The Wisdom of Crowds” mentioning my research published in
Nature Reports Climate Change (published on line July 30, 2009,
Radio: RK Radio Network, June 20, 2001, Ruth Koslak talk show, interview on President Bush’s trip to Europe
and global warming issues; MPR, April 21, 1998, interview on social movements in the US; WCCO, May 25,
1994, interview on Japanese culture; MPR, May 24, 1994, interview on US-Japan trade relations; KUOM, June 26
and July 2, 1993, "Japanese elections and politics;" MPR, July 14 and 19, 1993, "Japanese elections;" WCCO,
July 14, 1993, "On Operation Rescue;" MPR, March, 1993, "Comments on Waco Cult;" KUOM, fall, 1992,
"Comments on Japanese Emperor's visit to China."
TV: Fox 9 TV special program: “Comments on comparative social and political aspects of climate change during
a 30 minute special on climate change, Friday, February 9, 9:30 PM; Fox 9 TV News: “Comments on climate
change on occasion of Risk and Response conference,” January 26, 2007; Mpls. TV: Chn 4 WCCO, March 1,
2000 “Internet use and social isolation;” Chn. 11 KARE, Jan. 21, 1995; Chn. 5, July 15, 1993, "Comments on
Operation Rescue;" "Comments on Waco cult;" Chn. 11 KARE, May 5, 1993, "Comments on Waco Cult;" Chn.
5, April 20, 1993, "Comments on Waco cult;" "Comments on Kobe Earthquake;" Chn. 9, March 2, 1993; Oita
Japan local TV, 1980, two programs on my research and residence there.
Newspaper: Interviewed about US-Japan economic relationships and cited in article, Tokyo Newspaper (Tokyo
Shinbun), February 12, 2004; Interviewed about Japan’s Iraq policy and cited in article, Tokyo Newspaper (Tokyo
Shinbun), November 28, 2003. Half page report in Nishi Nippon Shimbun (Kyushu, Japan regional newspaper),
October 18, 2001, covering my September 28th talk in Japanese, “A good opportunity to contribute to Middle
Eastern peace,” given in Fukuoka, Japan (noted above). Notice in Japan’s largest newspaper, the Asahi
Shimbun, June 13, 2001 concerning the Masaysohi Ohira award for my book, Environmental Politics in Japan.
Public Talks and Service: Organizer and host of public conference, “Risk and Response to Global Warming and Environmental Change,”
Cowles Auditorium, University of Minnesota (about 80 in audience, including politicians’ aides, NGO leaders and
media), January 25-26, 2007. Welcoming addresses by CLA Dean Rosenstone and former Vice-President
Walter Mondale.
“Japan: Roots and Branches” The Japan Practicum: Compact Course, Minnesota Trade Organization.
November 5, 2003.
Public address to citizens of Sendai, Japan, “Comparing Civil Society in Japan and the US,” Tohoku University,
Sendai, Japan, December 9, 2002
米国から見た日本―ブッシュ政権誕生で米国は変わったか」 (“Japan seen from America – has America
changed with the Bush Administration?” Lecture at symposium on “What will
become of relations among Japan, the United States, China and Korea?” Organized by the Kyushu Federation of
Economic Organizations and Western Japan Newspaper. Fukuoka, Japan. September 28. Presented in
conjunction with lecture by Professor Ezra Vogel on “Changing relations among Japan, the United States, China
and Korea.”
Panel chair and welcoming address, A50 Event: three dignitaries from Japan comment on the fifty years since
signing the US-Japan Security Treaty in 1951. Hosted by the Japan-American Society of Minnesota.
University of Minnesota, September 10, 2001.
Helped Star Tribune reporter Sharon Schmickle make contact with groups in Japan opposed to
genetically-modified organisms, for her visit there, March, 2000.
“Japan in Crisis: the end of the economic miracle?” Lecture to the Woodbury Lions, Woodbury, MN. April 5,
2000.
Japan-United States Friendship Commission, Policy-Oriented Research Discussion Group member (advising the
Commission on its future policies), Washington, D.C. Feb 7, 2000.
“Japan: the Shadow of the Miracle,” Becketwood Retirement Community, Minneapolis, October 14, 1999.
“On Zen Buddhist Lay Practice,” Zen Center of San Francisco, April 28, 1999.
“The Cultural Basis of Regulation and Deregulation in Japan and the US.” At Beyond US/Japan Trade Wars:
Many Doors. Third Annual Symposium. Kobe College Corporation. Saturday, October 11, 1997.
“Differences in US and Japanese Culture” Address to Japanese high school teachers of English, JMOE Program
(co-sponsored by the Council for International Educational Exchange and the Japanese Ministry of Education),
Minnesota English Center at UM (July 29, 1996)
“Politics of Health and the Environment” Address to 1996 Annual University of Minnesota Summer Institute on
International Studies: Health, Disease, Population and the World’s Environment (June 24-28, 1996)
“Welcoming statement” to Japanese high school teachers of English, JMOE Program (co-sponsored by the
Council for International Educational Exchange and the Japanese Ministry of Education), Minnesota English
Center at UM (July, 1995)
Newspaper: Asahi Newspaper, Japan (my talk to the Wilson Center reported in Japan, February, 2000);
interviewed in MN. Daily (twice in March 1995; Nov. 5, 1993); Star-Tribune, Sept. 22, 1993, interviewed by Jim
Klobuchar on Japanese culture.
"Is America Sustainable?" United Nations Student Association, University of Minnesota, St. Paul Student Center,
10/25/94.
"What Makes the Japanese Japanese?" Lecture to Twin Cities home stay hosts for over 2000 performers coming
from Japan. Japan Week, 1994: May 18.
Lectures to audiences at World Theater, Minneapolis, on the significance of the Japanese dance performances;
Japan Week, 1994: May.
"Earthy Arts and Metallic Industries: the Paradox of Modern Japan." For high school students at World Cultures
Day: Focus on Japan, presented under the auspices of the Institute of International Studies, University of
Minnesota., May 13, 1992.
"Cultural Chauvinism in Japan," Plymouth Congregational Church, Nov. 11, 1992.
"Social Forces and the Environmental Crisis," For Earth Day, St. Paul Student Center, University of Minnesota.
April, 1992.
Training lectures on "Adapting to Foreign Cultures," for the National Personnel Authority, Government of Japan,
to young Japanese government bureaucrats going overseas for two-year study missions, June 1989 and April
1990.
Initiator and organizer, Nihon Kokusai Kankyo Sentaa (Japan International Environmental Center). Tokyo,
1988-1991. Worked with Japanese and foreign scholars, professionals and activists to start a non-profit
foundation for environmental education, started with a grant from Rockefeller Brothers Foundation in 1992.
"Nichibei ni okeru Kikoku Shijyo Mondai" (The Problem of Returnee Students in Japan), Overseas Employment
Problem Research Group (Kaigai Kinmusha Mondai Kenkyukai), Tokyo, November 26, 1988.
“Westerners Working in Japanese Companies: Problems and Prospects," Nichibei Conversation School, given on
the occasion of being a judge at an English speech contest, Tokyo, Japan, November 12, 1988.
Chair of panel on the internationalization of Japanese industry, Waseda University, Tokyo, September 1988.
Presented seminars on "Doing Business with the Japanese," at Ford Motor Company, Detroit, MI; employed by
Speakeasy Language Institute, 1985-86.
Co-Organizer, Japan Society of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 1982.
Translation of the Third National Plan for the National Land Agency, Japanese government, Tokyo, Japan, 1980.
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