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Michael Bruter | |
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Occupation | Professor |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux University of Hull University of Bordeaux University of Houston |
Thesis | Understanding Identity Realignment: the Emergence of a Mass European Identity (2001) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Political Science |
Sub-discipline | Politics of the European Union, Politics of Europe, Political behavior (Political psychology, Public opinion, Identity politics) |
Institutions | London School of Economics and Political Science (2001-) University of Hull (1999-2001) University of Houston (1997-1999) |
Website | www |
Michael Bruter is Professor of political science and European politics at the London School of Economics, where he directs the Electoral Psychology Observatory[1] in collaboration with Sarah Harrison.[2] He is also a co-founder of CODES Collaborative Democracy Solutions. Among other sub-fields, Bruter is a specialist in electoral psychology, electoral ergonomics, European identity, political participation, research methods, youth politics, and extreme right politics.[3]
Biography
Bruter earned an undergraduate degree from the Bordeaux Institute of Political Studies in 1996, a master's degree in European Studies from the University of Hull in 1997 and a master's degree in European Political and Economic History from the University of Bordeaux in 1998. He obtained his PhD in 2001 from the University of Houston, and lectured at the University of Hull from 1999 to 2001, before joining the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2001.[4] He was promoted to professor in 2010, and also serves as Director-founder of the Electoral Psychology Observatory since February 2020.[5]
He is an associate member of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship at McGill University in Montreal,[6] as well as Europa Fellow at the Australian National University.[7] He has also held numerous visiting appointments, notably at Columbia University (New York), the University of Melbourne, the Bordeaux and Strasbourg Instituts d'Etudes Politiques, the University of Canterbury, the University of Salzburg, etc.[8]
Research
European identity
Bruter's doctoral thesis, published in 2001 as "Understanding identity realignments: The emergence of a mass European identity", was partly funded by a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). One of his supervisors was Professor Mark Franklin, a lead expert on electoral and European Union politics.
In 2005, he published "Citizens of Europe?: The Emergence of a Mass European Identity".
This book shows empirically for the first time how a mass European identity has emerged across the EU member states between 1970 and the present day. Beyond this novel approach, it also offers a whole new theory of political identities, based on two 'civic' and 'cultural' components. Michael Bruter shows how multiple identities reinforce - rather than exclude - each other, and studies in depth the unsuspected impact of the media and political institutions on the emergence of new political identities.
— Citizens of Europe?: The Emergence of a Mass European Identity, back cover.
Extreme-right in Europe
In "Mapping Extreme Right Ideology" (2011), Michael Bruter and Sarah Harrison investigate 25 extreme-right parties in 17 European countries. Their multimethod research (mass survey, leaders interviews, textual analysis) results in a new model of European extreme-right politics, based on expressions of authoritairan values and negative identity.[9]
Throughout this study, we theoretically develop and empirically test a conceptual map of the extreme right ideological world, based on two dimensions: (1) a negative identity dimension that can take two predominant forms of expression, which we respectively define as xenophobic and populist, and (2) an authoritarian dimension, of which the two founding modes are respectively reactionary and repressive. We show that the first dimension concerns the way an extreme right party, leader, or voter tends to identify the simplified source of the problems faced by the nation and that the second concerns the equally simplified universal and utopian solution that they propose to fix it.
— Mapping Extreme Right Ideology, p. 195.
Their reserach also recognises the diversity of the extreme-right party family.
"What is an extreme right party? How do we define the extreme right party family? Who is a member and who is not? Is it a party family at all? [...] Far from being a monolithic and unified concept, the European extreme right constitutes a varied and complex multidimensional universe, with its tensions, hesitations, transformations, and challenges on how to match the preferences of parties, leaders, members, and potential voters over time."
— Mapping Extreme Right Ideology, p. 1 & 194.
Inside the Mind of a Voter: A New Approach to Electoral Psychology
In 2013, Bruter's ECREP at LSE team won the award for Best International Research from the Market Research Society[10] alongside Opinium Research for Bruter's "Inside the Mind of a Voter" project (which survey fieldwork was completed by Opinium). The €1.2 million project on electoral psychology is funded by the European Research Council.[11] Beyond academic publications, the project has had an important public profile, with a presentation at the Falling Walls conference,[12] an interview in Nature,[13] and multiple references in the media, for example in the Guardian,[14] Le Monde,[15][16] etc.
In 2020, Bruter and Harrison published "Inside the mind of a voter: a new approach to electoral psychology", offering a new political psychology perspective to electoral politics, by focussing on the point of view and emotions of voters, rather than on electoral instituions.[17]
The authors examine unique concepts including electoral identity, atmosphere, ergonomics, and hostility. From filming the shadow of voters in the polling booth, to panel study surveys, election diaries, and interviews, Bruter and Harrison unveil insights into the conscious and subconscious sides of citizens’ psychology throughout a unique decade for electoral democracy. They highlight how citizens’ personality, memory, and identity affect their vote and experience of elections, when elections generate hope or hopelessness, and how subtle differences in electoral arrangements interact with voters’ psychology to trigger different emotions.
— Inside the mind of a voter: a new approach to electoral psychology, abstract.
Electoral hostility
On 6 April 2018, the European Research Council (ERC) announced that Bruter had been awarded an Advanced Grant of €2.5 million over five years for his new project ELHO dedicated to the study of electoral hostility in 27 democracies. Bruter explained that the project is intended to understand why so many people hate each other because of the way they vote, what are the implications of this hostility and what can be done to resolve it.[18]
I define electoral hostility as negative feelings (frustration, anger, contempt, disgust) held towards individuals or groups as a result of their effective or perceived electoral preferences. It may occur in the campaign, post-election, and reinforce into self-perpetuating cycles of hostility as it is structured as a Mokken scale which can become ‘stages’ of hostility. While scepticism of political elites is well-studied, hostility towards fellow voters takes electoral negativity to a new level. Electoral hostility may have far reaching consequences, leading citizens to resent one another due to electoral stances and drift apart in increasingly divided societies, but also to the delegitimization of electoral outcomes and negative attitudes towards solidarity.
— ELHO: The Age of Hostility, EPO website.[19]
Bruter and his EPO colleagues have developed a "Hostitlity Barometer". For example, during the 2019 UK General Elections, the research team found that "49% of those intending to vote Conservative feel some “contempt” towards Labour voters, and 68% of those intending to vote Labour feel some “disgust” towards Conservative voters".[20]
This "The Age of Hostility" project is one of the two founding projets of the Electoral Psychology Observatory (Department of Government, LSE), alongside the "First and Foremost" projet (analysing the experience of first-time voters).[21]
Youth electoral experience
In 2011, Buter received a €250,000 European Commission grant to study youth participation in Europe, having done previous research on young party members' motivations in European democracies. In 2016, he published "Youth participation in Europe: In between hope and disillusion" (with Cammaerts, Banaji, Harrison, and Anstead).
The main argument of the book is that youth may not regularly engage with the standard forms of political participation not because they are apathetic, but rather because the political offer does not match their concerns, ideas and ideals of democratic politics. Diverse groups of young people feel that ‘those in power do not listen’. Youth are therefore critical against mainstream politics and traditional media and feel that they must not merely be given a voice, but also possibilities to participate in follow-up processes and to further shape the relevant debates and policy implementation.
— Book Review: Youth Participation in Democratic Life: Stories of Hope and Disillusion.[22]
In 2016, Bruter started a new project on optimising the electoral experience of first time voter in collaboration with Sarah Harrison and a number of leading Electoral Commissions around the world, resulting in the EPO's "First and Foremost" projet, funded by a £720,000 grant from the Economic and Social Research Council. One of the key justification of this research is the fact that youth who abstain in the first two elections of their lives are likely to become chronic abstentionnist, while those who vote in their first two elections can be expected to be regiular participants. Therefore, improving first-time voters' experience is key to maintaining a reasonably high electoral turnout.[23]
Bruter spoke in favor of lowering the legal voting age because young people who still live with their parents are more likely to vote, which could lead to a higher turnout among first-time voters, and thus also to higher participation in the long term due to the habituation phenomenon associated with youths' first two votes.[24]
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In November 2022, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) annonced that Bruter and Harrison had been awarded the Celebrating Impact Pize 2022 for Outstanding international impact due to the EPO's work on optimising citizens’ electoral experience.[25]
Empowering citizens with technology
Bruter and Sarah Harrison also founded the Collaborative Democracy Solutions (CODES) project, which aims to better undertand the mind of voters, as well as optimise electoral and consultative processes, using technology. On of the project's key acievment is the Code T human-led articifial intelligence, which allows citizens to express their preferences in their own words and have them translated into "powerful, accurate, and transaprent collective decisions".[26]
In 2022, the project received a European Research Council Proof of Concept grant of €150,000.[27]
Awards
- Winner ESRC/UKRI Celebrating Impact Prize for Outstanding International Impact (2022)
- Stein Rokkan award for Best International Research, Honourable mention, for Inside the Mind of a Voter (2021)
- Best International Research Award, Market Research Society for “Inside the Mind of a Voter” (2013)
- Best International Research Award, Special mention, Market Research Society for “Values in international cooperation” (2021)
- Best International Research Award, Finalist, Market Research Society for “Feeling European” (2014)[28]
Selected publications
- Inside the Mind of a Voter. Princeton University Press, 2020. ISBN 9780691182896 (with Sarah Harrison). This book received the Honourable Mention for the Stein Rokkan prize 2021 jointly awarded by the European Consortium for Political Research and the International Science Council for best book in comparative social science.
- Youth Participation in Democratic Life. ISBN 9781403932396 Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. (with Bart Cammaerts, Shaku Banaji, Sarah Harrison, and Nick Anstead)]
- Political science research methods in action. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013. (With Martin Lodge) ISBN 9780230367753
- Asia in the Eyes of Europe: Images of a Rising Giant. Nomos, 2012. (Co-edited with Sebastian Bersick, Natalia Chaban, Sol Iglesias, and Ronan Lenihan)
- Mapping Extreme Right Ideology. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 (with Sarah Harrison).
- The Future of our Democracies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. (With Sarah Harrison)
- Encyclopaedia of European elections. Palgrave Macmillan, Basington, 2007. ISBN 9781403994844 (With Yves Deloye)
- Citizens of Europe? The emergence of a mass European identity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN 9781403932396
References
- ^ "EPO |". www.epob.org. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
- ^ "Sarah Harrison - Assistant Professorial Research Fellow". www.sarahharrison.org. Retrieved 2015-09-06.
- ^ Professor Michael Bruter. London School of Economics. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
- ^ "Who - Michael Bruter". www.epob.org. 2019-11-21. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
- ^ "Electoral Psychology Observatory launched at LSE". www.lse.ac.uk/. 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
- ^ "Associate members - CSDC - Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship". Retrieved 2015-09-05.
- ^ "Professor Michael Bruter". 13 December 2017.
- ^ "Who - Michael Bruter". www.epob.org. 2019-11-21. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
- ^ Goodwin, Matthew (2012-06-03). "Book review: mapping extreme right ideology: an empirical geography of the European extreme right". LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog.
- ^ "Staff News". www.lse.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
- ^ ""Inside the mind of a voter - Memory, Identity, and Electoral Psychology" | ERC: European Research Council". erc.europa.eu. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
- ^ Foundation, Falling Walls. "Michael Bruter - Breaking the Wall of the Polling Booth. How Electoral Psychology Enlightens Democratic Citizenship | Falling Walls". www.falling-walls.com. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
- ^ Castelvecchi, Davide (2015). "Why the polls got the UK election wrong". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2015.17511. S2CID 211730208. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
- ^ Arnot, Chris (4 May 2010). "Voting behaviour comes under scrutiny in new study". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
- ^ Ané, Claire. "Six idées reçues sur les jeunes et la politique". Le Monde.fr (in French). ISSN 1950-6244. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
- ^ Ané, Claire. "Vote obligatoire, anticipé, dès 16 ans ... Quels remèdes à l'abstention des jeunes ?". Le Monde.fr (in French). ISSN 1950-6244. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
- ^ Wlezien, Christopher (2020). "[Book Review] Inside the Mind of a Voter: A New Approach to Electoral Psychology". Party Politics. 28 (4).
- ^ "ERC advanced grants - examples of research projects". European Research Council (ERC).
- ^ Electoral Psychology Observatory. "ELHO: The Age of Hostility". www.epob.org. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
- ^ Electoral Psychology Observatory. "Hostility Barometer". www.epob.org. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
- ^ "Electoral Psychology Observatory launched at LSE". www.lse.ac.uk. 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
- ^ Kontopodis, Michalis (2016). "[Book Review] Youth Participation in Democratic Life: Stories of Hope and Disillusion". Young. 26 (4).
- ^ Electoral Psychology Observatory. "First and Foremost". www.epob.org. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
- ^ Graveleau, Séverin (2017-01-19). "Droit de vote à 16 ans : 62 % des lycéens se prononcent pour le « oui »". Le Monde. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
- ^ "ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize". www.ukri.org. 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
- ^ Codes Technology. "Who we are". Retrieved 2022-12-10.
- ^ "€25 million to edge frontier research closer to market". erc.europa.eu. 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
- ^ "Who - Michael Bruter". www.epob.org. 2019-11-21. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
External links
- http://www.epob.org
- https://twitter.com/EPO_lse
- Michael Bruter speaking at the Falling Walls conference in Berlin
- Michael Bruter talking on European Identity: Quantitative Research Methods
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