Dr David Broughton's Profile

Dr David Broughton

Overview

Position: Senior Lecturer Email: Broughton@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 2087 4146
Fax: +44(0)29 2087 4946
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Location: Room 1.01, 65-68 Park Place

My current research interests focus upon two main areas:

Firstly, I have long been interested in the government and politics of Germany since 1945, with a particular focus upon elections, parties and public opinion. I have also researched into the same topics in other Western European countries as part of wider, comparative investigations into theories of mass representation and the changing context of democratic politics.

Secondly, I have developed a broad interest in European security and its various and shifting linkages and dimensions. The rapidly changing security agenda and architecture of contemporary Europe overall provides the contextual backdrop, whilst the role of the European Union and its putative transformation from specialising in the use of ‘soft’ power to greater use of ‘hard’ power provides the main focus.

Research Unit

European Governance, Identity and Public Policy

Publications

Authored books

Public Opinion Polling and Politics in Britain. Contemporary Political Studies Series. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf/Prentice-Hall, 1995. 229pp.

Edited books

British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1991 (edited with Ivor Crewe, Pippa Norris and David Denver). Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991. 312pp.

British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1992 (edited with Pippa Norris, Ivor Crewe and David Denver). Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992. 267pp.

British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1993 (edited with David Denver, Pippa Norris and Colin Rallings). Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. 242pp.

British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1994 (edited with David M. Farrell, David Denver and Colin Rallings. London: Frank Cass, 1995. 283pp.

British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1995 (edited with Colin Rallings, David M. Farrell and David Denver). London: Frank Cass, 1996. 229pp.

British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1996 (edited with David M. Farrell, David Denver and Justin Fisher). London: Frank Cass, 1996. 282pp.

The Force of Labour: The Western European Labour Movement and the Working Class in the Twentieth Century (edited with Stefan Berger). Oxford: Berg, 1995. 286pp.

Changing Party Systems in Western Europe (edited with Mark Donovan). London: Pinter/Cassell Academic, 1998. 315pp.

Religion and Mass Electoral Behaviour in Europe (edited with Hans-Martien ten Napel). London: Routledge, 2000. 218pp.

British Elections and Parties Review 2004 (edited with Roger Scully, Paul Webb and Justin Fisher). London: Taylor and Francis, 2004. 313pp.

Chapters in books

`The F.D.P. and Coalitional Behaviour in the Federal Republic of Germany: Multi-Dimensional Perspectives on the Role of a Pivotal Party', (with Emil Kirchner), pp. 72‑92 in Geoffrey Pridham (editor), Coalitional Behaviour in Theory and Practice: An Inductive Model for Western Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

`The F.D.P. in the Federal Republic of Germany: The Requirements of Survival and Success', (with Emil Kirchner), pp. 62‑92 in Emil Kirchner (editor), Liberal Parties in Western Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

`The Social Bases of Western European Conservative Parties', pp. 193‑224 in Brian Girvin (editor), The Transformation of Contemporary Conservatism. London: Sage Publications, Sage Modern Politics Series, Volume 22, 1988.

`Political Change in Britain During the 1987 Campaign', (with William L. Miller, Niels Sonntag and Duncan McLean), pp. 108‑125 in Ivor Crewe and Martin Harrop (editors), Political Communications: The General Election Campaign of 1987. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

`Labour's Reorganisation Down at the Grassroots', (with Patrick Seyd and Paul Whiteley), pp. 174-188 in Ivor Crewe, Pippa Norris, David Denver and David Broughton (editors) British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1991. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991.

`Elite Consensus and Dissensus in West German Foreign Policy', pp. 54-71 in Emil J. Kirchner and James Sperling (editors), The Federal Republic of Germany and NATO. 40 Years After. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992.

`The Informed Electorate? Voter Responsiveness to Campaigns in Britain and Germany', (with Shaun Bowler, Todd Donovan and Joseph Snipp), pp. 204-222 in Shaun Bowler and David M. Farrell (editors) Electoral Strategies and Political Marketing. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992.

`The CDU-CSU in Germany: Is There Any Alternative?', pp. 101-118 in David Hanley (editor), Christian Democracy in Europe. A Comparative Perspective. London: Pinter, 1994.

`The Changing British Voter Revisited: Patterns of Election Campaign Volatility Since 1964' (with David M. Farrell and Ian McAllister), pp. 111-128 in British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1994 (edited by David Broughton, David M. Farrell, David Denver and Colin Rallings. London: Frank Cass, 1995.

`The Limitations of Likeability: The Major Premiership and Public Opinion', pp. 199-217 in Peter Dorey (editor), The Major Premiership: Politics and Policies Under John Major, 1990-97. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999.

‘Public Opinion under New Labour’, pp. 141-158 in Steve Lancaster (editor) Developments in Politics. An Annual Review. Volume 12. Ormskirk: Causeway Press Limited, 2001.

‘Participation and Voting’. pp. 94-114 in Paul Heywood, Erik Jones and Martin Rhodes (editors.) Developments in West European Politics 2. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.

‘The 2001 General Election: So, no change there, then?’, pp. 198-216 in Mark Garnett and Philip Lynch (editors) The Conservatives in Crisis. The Tories after 1997. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003.

‘Public Opinion and Trust: The Impact of Diminishing Powers of Persuasion’, pp. 153-172 in Steve Lancaster (editor) Developments in Politics. An Annual Review. Volume 15. Ormskirk: Causeway Press Limited, 2004.

Journal articles

`Germany: The F.D.P. in Transition - Again?', (with Emil Kirchner), Parliamentary Affairs, 37:2, Spring 1984, pp. 183‑198. Full version available as paper no. 7 in occasional papers series, Essex Papers in Politics and Government. Department of Government, University of Essex, April 1984

`Secularization and Partisan Preferences: Definition and Operationalization', (with Christopher Rudd), European Journal of Political Research, 12:4, December 1984, pp. 445‑50

`The Volatility in British Attitudes Towards the EC: The Evidence of the Euro-barometre polls, 1974‑1984', (with Christopher Huhne). Appendix pp. 27‑34 in Christopher Huhne, The Forces Shaping British Attitudes Towards the EC, CEPS Paper No. 23. Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies, 1985

`Television in the 1987 Election Campaign: Its Content and Influence', (with William L. Miller and Niels Sonntag), Political Studies, 37:4, December 1989, pp. 626‑51

`The 1996 Länder Elections in Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Schleswig-Holstein: The Ebbing of the Tides of March?', (with Neil Bentley), German Politics, 5:3, December 1996, pp. 503-22

`The 1997 General Election in England: A Landslide Without Illusions?', Regional and Federal Studies, 7:3, Autumn 1997, pp. 184-9

`The Welsh Devolution Referendum 1997’, Representation, 35:4, Winter 1998, pp. 200-09
`The First Welsh Assembly Elections 1999’, Representation, 36:3, Autumn 1999, pp. 212-23
`Political Participation in Britain’, Politics Review, 9:4, April 2000, pp. 12-15

‘The First Six Länder Elections of 1999: Initial Electoral Consequences and Political Fallout of the Neue Mitte in Action’, German Politics, 9:2, August 2000, pp. 51-70

‘The 2001 General Election in Wales: Present Stasis, Future Change?’, Representation, 38:3, Winter 2001, pp. 249-255.

‘The Welsh Assembly Elections of 2003: The Triumph of ‘Welfarism’?’, (with Alan Storer), Representation, 40:4, 2004, pp.266-279.

‘Doomed to Defeat? Electoral Support and the Conservative Party’, Political Quarterly, 75:4, October-December 2004, pp. 350-355.

Research

My current research interests focus upon two main areas. Firstly, I have long been interested ever since my undergraduate studies in the government and politics of Germany (both before and after unification in 1990), and that interest encompasses the political institutions and state structure, as well as policy-making processes and outcomes. Within those broad areas, I remain particularly interested in elections, parties and public opinion and the various linkages between the three, as part of wider, comparative investigations into a range of theories of mass representation and the changing context of democratic politics.

Secondly, over the last five years, I have developed a broad interest in European security and its various shifting inter-linkages and dimensions. The role of the European Union and its putative transformation from specialising in the use of ‘soft’ power to greater use of ‘hard’ power provides a main focus, along with the emergence of ‘human security’ in terms of growing environmental concerns for example, and how this overlaps with traditional notions of security. The rapidly changing security agenda and architecture of contemporary Europe provides the contextual backdrop to these foci.

In the past, I have also been interested in the nature and consequences of links between religion and mass politics, as well as the various methodological questions arising from the study of mass political behaviour via analysis of opinion polls and surveys. These are two topics to which I return intermittently, but in which I retain a long-term research interest.

Postgraduate Students

PHD Supervisor (sole responsibility)

Neil Bentley, `Practising What They Preach? An Investigation into the Internal Policy-Making Implementation of Trade Union-Foreign Worker Policy with Particular Reference to Industrie Gewerkschaft Metall (IG Metall) in Germany' (from 1 October 1993).

Paul Kennedy, ‘The PSOE Government 1982-1996 and the Policy Process with particular reference to economic and foreign and seurity policy: core executive dominance under challenge’ (from 1 October 1993).

Co-responsibility

Kristof Kark, “A New Uniform Voting System For Elections to the European Parliament?” (from 1 October 2007), co-supervised with Dr. Jo Hunt, Cardiff Law School.

Biography

Career profile

I graduated from the University of Sussex in 1980 with a BA (Hons) in Politics and German in the School of European Studies, including a student exchange in my third year at the Universität Konstanz in Germany. I then studied for a M.Sc. in Politics at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow in 1980-81. Carrying out the research for my Ph.D occupied most of the rest of the 1980s, with my doctoral thesis finally being finished in late 1988 at the University of Essex in the Department of Government. My Ph.D thesis title was The Impact of Religious Divides on Electoral Behaviour: A Comparison of the Federal Republic of Germany and Canada.

Before being appointed to my current post at Cardiff in 1991, I worked as the research assistant and then associate on a number of ESRC-funded social science research projects such as the International Project on Class and Class Consciousness (Economic Stagflation and Social Structure), Department of Sociology, University of Essex; The British Election Campaign Study Department of Politics, University of Glasgow; and A Study of the Labour Party Membership, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield.

I was appointed as a Lecturer in Politics in the Cardiff School of European Studies from 1 January 1991, with a permanent contract from 1 January 1994. I was then promoted to Senior Lecturer in Politics from 1 September 2001.

Teaching Profile

Since 2001, I have taken part in the Socrates Staff Teaching Exchange Scheme to three Universities in Germany: Mainz, Rostock and Kassel.

I have taught a variety of subjects as part of this exchange scheme such as British Political Culture, Voting and the Party System in Britain; The British General Election of 2001; The British Monarchy and the British State; Thatcherism; The ‘special relationship’ between Britain and the United States; Multi-culturalism in Britain; Do you really mean England? The other ‘parts’ of the United Kingdom; British Universities: Further, Higher, Which Direction?; The Persistence of Class; Subjects and Citizens: The Politics of Citizenship in Post-War Britain.

Administrative Experience

I was Director of the undergraduate European Union Studies (EUS) degree scheme twice, between 1992-1999 and between 2001-2004, responsible for decision-making on admissions, scheme structure and curriculum development, scheme and School publicity, chairing exam boards and meetings, and dealing with student cases.

In addition, I have been a member of the School of European Studies Research and Publications Committee, the School Management Directorate, the Postgraduate Committee, the Teaching Quality Committee, and the Academic Audit Committee.

I have also acted as the co-ordinator of the School Research Unit, Ideologies, Parties and Intellectuals and as a member of two School Research Units, Labour Movements in Western Europe and Political Parties, Social Movements and Institutions.

External Examining

External Examiner for Doctoral Thesis, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Queen's University of Belfast, 24 September 1993

Title of Thesis: Political Culture in Northern Ireland 1945-66: A Study of Political Elite Electoral Communications

External Examiner for BA Honours Combined Arts/Applied Languages, and BA Honours European Studies, School of Languages and Literature, University of Ulster, Coleraine (appointed for four years from academic session 2003-2004)

External Auditing

Politics Assessor for Academic Quality and Standards Committee for Review of Faculty of Economics and Social Science, University of the West of England, Bristol, 22-23 February 1995

Panels:

Teaching, Learning and Assessment
Graduate Studies and Research

Student Panels, General Panels and Discussions

Topics:
External Examiners, Graduate Schools, Research Fellowships, Seminars, Assessment Methods, Student Feedback and Transferable Study Skills

Professional Memberships and Responsibilities

Association for the Study of German Politics (ASGP)- 1991 to present
Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom (PSA)- 1990 to present
Elections, Public Opinion and Parties in Britain (EPOP- PSA specialist group)- founder member, 1990 to present
American Political Science Association (APSA)- 1989 to 2001
British Politics Group (BPG), specialist section of APSA- 1995 to 2001

Associate Editor, Electoral Studies, December 1994-December 1999
Member of the International Editorial Board, Electoral Studies, from December 1994
Member of the Advisory Editorial Panel, Representation (Arthur McDougall Fund), from July 1995
Member of the Executive Committee, Association for the Study of German Politics (ASGP), April 2001-April 2002

Conference and Seminar Papers

More than 40 papers presented since March 1983 at ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, PSA Annual Conference, APSA Annual Conference, EPOP Annual Conference and the Welsh Assembly seminar series.

Other Conferences Attended:
More than 50 conferences attended since 1991.

Organisation of Conferences
Academic Organiser (Speakers and Panels): Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) Annual Conference, University of Lancaster, 17-19 September 1993

Domestic Organiser (Accommodation, Finance, Bookings, Media): Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) Annual Conference, Dyffryn House Conference Centre, Cardiff, 27-29 September 1994

Co-Director: European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Joint Sessions of Workshops, Religion and Mass Electoral Behaviour in Europe, (with Hans-Martien ten Napel, University of Leiden), Universität Bern, Switzerland, 27 February-4 March 1997

Domestic Organiser (Accommodation, Finance, Bookings, Media): Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) Annual Conference, Thistle Hotel, Cardiff, 12-14 September 2003

Book Proposal Reviewer for Publishers

Pinter Publishers
Manchester University Press
Routledge

Manuscript Reviewer for Political Science Journals

Political Studies
Journal of Common Market Studies
Politics
Party Politics
British Journal of Political Science
Representation
West European Politics
European Journal of Political Research

Project Reviewer for ESRC Election Studies Committee

The British Election Study 1996-97 (Anthony Heath, Roger Jowell, John Curtice and Pippa Norris); I also reviewed the Scottish component of this proposal

Referee for ESRC Research Grants Board

The Northern Ireland Election Study 1997 (NIES)
A Study of Electoral Volatility
A Comparative Analysis of the Mass Media and Political Communication in Scotland
The Scottish Devolution Referendum

Regular Media Contributions

TV:
BBC Wales Today, Welsh Lobby
Radio:
BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Scotland
Print:
Western Mail, Wales on Sunday