David Broockman is an associate professor in the Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Broockman is the author of over three dozen peer-reviewed scholarly essays on American politics. Broockman’s research has overturned conventional wisdom regarding the nature, extent, and consequences of political polarization in the American public; how political campaigns and organizations can effectively persuade voters; and how to have productive conversations to bridge divides and reduce prejudice. His research has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the New York Times Magazine, and on This American Life.
Broockman received the American Political Science Association's Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section’s Emerging Scholar Award for the top scholar who is within 10 years of their PhD, the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Award for Research in the Public Interest, and the Joseph L. Bernd Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Politics in 2018.
His project, “The Nature and Origins of Political Polarization in America,” will tackle the conventional wisdom about polarization head-on, reassessing the extent to which politicians have in fact grown more extreme over time while exploring whether voters are in fact more moderate than politicians.
May 2024
