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 in collaboration with Sarah Harrison. 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.
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.
He is an associate member of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship at McGill University in Montreal, as well as Europa Fellow at the Australian National University. 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 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. Beyond academic publications, the project has had an important public profile, with a presentation at the Falling Walls conference, an interview in Nature, and multiple references in the media, for example in the Guardian, Le Monde, 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.
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