My research focuses on public participation in constitution-making, with broader interests in Latin American politics, indigenous constitutionalism, and immigration politics. My methodological expertise includes statistical methods and natural language processing.
Journal articles
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Matthew Martin. “Elite Fractures, Public Capture: The Strategic Use of Public Consultation in Global Constitution-Making,” Journal of Law and Courts, 2025, 1-34. doi:
10.1017/jlc.2024.9. Job market paper. -
Andrés Cruz, Zachary Elkins, Roy Gardner, Matthew Martin, and Ashley Moran. “Measuring constitutional preferences: A new method for analyzing public consultation data,” PLoS ONE 18, no. 12 (2023): e0295396, doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0295396
Works in progress
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Matthew Martin. “From Data to Demos: Public Consultation and the Logic of Will-Confirmation in Constitution-Making.”
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Matthew Martin. “Constitutional Cherry-Picking: How Drafters Leverage Public Input in Constitution-Making.”
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Matthew Martin. “Deportation by Design: How Political Entrepreneurs Engineered Crime-Based Deportation in the United States.” Revise and resubmit at Polity.
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Roy Gardner, Matthew Martin, Ashley Moran, Zachary Elkins, Andrés Cruz, and Guillermo Pérez. “Expanding Your Vocabulary: A Framework for Topic Integration in Texts.”
Other works
Elkins, Zachary, Matthew Martin, Ashley Moran, Guillermo Pérez. 2023. “12 Core Attributes of the Chilean Constitutional Proposal.” Constitute Project.
Martin, Matthew and Guillermo Pérez. “Chile 2023 - Draft of 30 Oct 2023.” Translation of Chilean constitutional proposal. Constitute Project.