My research focuses on global constitution-making, with a particular interest in mechanisms of public consultation. My other areas of specialization include Latin American politics, 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 (forthcoming). Job market paper.
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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. “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, Andrés Cruz, Zachary Elkins, and Ashley Moran. “Expanding Your Vocabulary: Topic Integration Using the Segments-as-Topics (SAT) Approach.”
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Andrés Cruz, Zachary Elkins, Roy Gardner, Matthew Martin, and Ashley Moran. “Tracing the Expression and Uptake of Constitutional Ideas across Three Reform Efforts in Chile.”
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.