Andreas Broscheid

Andreas Broscheid is the assistant director for the Career Planning area at the Center for Faculty Innovation (CFI), and a professor of Political Science, at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. His recent scholarship has focused on political science education, on inclusion in college teaching, and the identities of educational developers. In an article published in the Journal of Political Science Education, Broscheid asks whether the use of Team-Based Learning (TBL) in a large U.S. government class affects students' attitudes about group work. As a follow up to this work on TBL, Broscheid is now looking at how to structure the content of a U.S. government survey course for TBL. Together with his CFI colleague Ed Brantmeier and with Carl Moore of the University of the District of Columbia, Andreas has co-developed a survey that helps faculty assess the extent to which their classes are inclusive and discover additional aspects of diversity and inclusion for their classes. Andreas Broscheid's political science research has focused on European interest representation and the U.S. courts, particularly the federal courts of appeals. What fascinates him in the U.S. Courts of Appeals is the fact that, unlike the U.S. Supreme Court, these courts operate in an environment of regional differences that creates the need to consider the preferences and legal arguments of a higher court as well as regional legal precedents. As a result, judges on these courts have to consider the Supreme Court's legal precedents and preferences as well as their own legal views and political preferences. In an article in the Law & Society Review, Broscheid explores to what extent these factors lead to political differences between appeals courts in different circuits.