Broockman's career in academia began in 2015, when he became an
assistant professor at the
Graduate School of Business at
Stanford University. He was promoted to
associate professor at
Stanford in 2019 when he also became a National Fellow at the
Hoover Institution. In 2020, he moved to become an associate professor of
Political Science at the
University of California, Berkeley. Broockman's other research has also received significant public attention. For example, in a 2013 study, Broockman argues that legislators consistently believe their constituents are more conservative than they actually are. Some conjectured that this study explained why it is so challenging to pass liberal laws. He has also argued that affective polarization does not meaningfully undermine political accountability. In a 2017 article with
Neil Malhotra, he argues that there is significant heterogeneity in the preferences of wealthy individuals. The article shows that technology entrepreneurs support liberal redistributive, social, and globalist policies but conservative regulatory policies which is a combination of preferences that is rare among wealthy political donors more generally. •
Bernie Sanders looks electable in surveys — but it could be a mirage (2020) on
Vox Media •
Persuading voters is hard. That doesn’t mean campaigns should give up. (2017) on
Washington Post Awards Broockman has won numerous scholarly awards. In 2014, he won the Lawrence Longely award for the best paper published on representation and electoral systems. In 2015, he shared the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Transparency in the Social Sciences. In 2019, he shared the Joseph L. Bernd award for the best article published in the
Journal of Politics. In 2020, he won the Emerging Scholar Award from the
American Political Science Association's Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section. In 2024, he was selected to the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship program. ==Selected publications==