Michael Bruter
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] 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]
On 6 April 2018, the European Research Council announced that he 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.[4]
He is an associate member of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship at McGill University in Montreal,[5] as well as Europa Fellow at the Australian National University.[6] 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.
In 2013, Bruter's ECREP at LSE team won the award for Best International Research from the Market Research Society[7] alongside Opinium Research for Bruter's "Inside the Mind of a Voter" project (which survey fieldwork was completed by Opinium). The project is funded by the European Research Council.[8] Beyond academic publications, the project has had an important public profile, with a presentation at the Falling Walls conference,[9] an interview in Nature,[10] and multiple references in the media, for example in the Guardian,[11] Le Monde,[12][13] etc.
In 2016, Bruter is due to start 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.
Bruter was previously employed by the University of Houston and the University of Hull. He earned his undergraduate degree from the Bordeaux Institut d'Etudes Politiques and master's degrees from the Universities of Hull and Bordeaux. Bruter earned his PhD from the University of Houston.
Selected publications
- Citizens of Europe? The emergence of a mass European identity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN 9781403932396
- Mapping Extreme Right Ideology. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 (with Sarah Harrison)
- Youth Participation in Democratic Life. ISBN 9781403932396 Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. (with Bart Cammaerts, Shaku Banaji, Sarah Harrison, and Nick Anstead)]
- The Future of our Democracies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. (With Sarah Harrison)
- Political science research methods in action. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013. (With Martin Lodge) ISBN 9780230367753
- Encyclopaedia of European elections. Palgrave Macmillan, Basington, 2007. ISBN 9781403994844 (With Yves Deloye)
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.
- ^ https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-advanced-grants-2017-project-examples
- ^ "Associate members - CSDC - Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship". Retrieved 2015-09-05.
- ^ http://politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ces/people/professor-michael-bruter
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Why the polls got the UK election wrong". Retrieved 2015-09-05.
- ^ Arnot, Chris. "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.