Matthew P. Hitt

Seriously! A fun one to work on, endless angles and follow-ups keep presenting themselves.

Dragging this book carcass across the finish line. Finally.

amid bad one bright spot: “supremely polarizing” short book w @matthewhitt.bsky.social has been accepted for publication. more data showing sorting of judicial public opinion, a validated short measure of specific support, and a new measure of applied support for rule of law relation to legitimacy.

100% we do it. Or if copyright won’t work out, we could just do a picture of a bunch of dogs who caught the cars they were chasing. Here’s what AI punched up if we want to go that route

in case you missed it when I posted the preprint on acceptance, here's the more aesthetically pleasing, actually formatted (and unfortunately timely) article for your reading pleasure! (cc: Fitz, @stecula.bsky.social, @matthewhitt.bsky.social):

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Pairs nicely with: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... Open Acess right now, to boot.

New (very timely!) paper with Erin Fitz, @stecula.bsky.social,
@matthewhitt.bsky.social & myself, accepted at Behavioural Public Policy entitled "Mindset to Gain? Framing Effects, Need for Chaos, and the Limits of 'Burning It All Down'"--a thread and a link:

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Newspaper Closures Polarize Voting Behavior Abstract. Changes to the media environment have increased polarized voting in America through both addition and subtraction. We argue that the decline of l

Does the loss of local newspapers affect the political divide in America? You bet it does! How? Researchers found that when a local newspaper closed before an election, people switched to national news, meaning less exposure to local races and increased partisan voting. Source: zurl.co/kxxSU

Home Style Opinion: How Local Newspapers Can Slow Polarization - Political Science | Colorado State University Author: Matthew Hitt, Joshua Darr, Johanna Dunaway Summary: Local newspapers can hold back the rising tide of political division in America by turning away from the partisan battles in Washington and ...

Thanks for sharing our work! Our follow-up book showed that when a local paper emphasized local/state politics over national on its opinion page, that slowed the growth of polarization among residents of the community. polisci.colostate.edu/2022/04/home...

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#OpenAccess from the new issue of the Journal of Policy History -

“The Future of the US Supreme Court: Ethics, Polarization, and Reform” - cup.org/43ZF3fK

- @jboxsteff.bsky.social, Nicholas T. Davis &‪ @matthewhitt.bsky.social

Is the Supreme Court losing its legitimacy? - College of Liberal Arts New CSU research examines how the American people view the U.S. Supreme Court and what that could mean for democracy.

Appreciated the nice writeup about my work with @ntd.bsky.social by CSU's communications team. Thinking a lot about this project today as the Court debates birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment. libarts.source.colostate.edu/is-the-supre...

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

Driscoll, Krehbiel, and I have been polling with @today.yougov.com about Americans' support for defying the judiciary since the start of covid. Overall story has been stasis. But, since July, a 12% increase among Democrats in support for presidents obeying courts and a 17% drop among Republicans.

Thanks Erin!

Partisan sorting, fatalism, and Supreme Court legitimacy by Nicholas T. Davis and Matthew P. Hitt is now available in Early View. @matthewhitt.bsky.social ajps.org/2025/04/28/p...

Thanks for the shoutout! I'd be very curious to know how these kinds of dynamics replicate or not at the local levels of government. Good luck with the project!

This is how 60-70% of American adults think about housing markets.

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Read Maris's piece, then go show your local indie bookstore some love. They're so much more than places to get books--they are places to engage with ideas and others in your community. Staffed by actual humans to help you find the books you didn't know you needed!

Thanks Nick, and I couldn't have said it any better myself. And thanks to everyone for the kind words and for sharing this!

its officially alive 😭

online-first: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

background: @matthewhitt.bsky.social and I struck out on an NSF in 2022, but later won a RAPID grant. the project doesnt happen w/o Reggie Sheehan at the NSF. winding journey but working w one of your best mates is a joy.

we have now posted the 2024 Cooperative Election Study common content dataset to the @harvarddataverse.bsky.social! data from 60,000 American adults interviewed before & after the election. thanks to @today.yougov.com & Caroline Soler for getting this data produced & posted doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

curious to see whether SCOTUS permits Trump's abuse of constitution across lots of issues but rn it looks like trump take legitimacy. @matthewhitt.bsky.social and i are finally...finally forthcoming in AJPS talking at length abt a new era of judicial public opinion.

preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Several red state AGs including mine are suing to dismantle 504s in schools.

Please, call your reps and AGs to demand they let all children learn in public schools. The end goal is to delete all special education services. All accommodations.

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NEW ISSUE -

Journal of Law and Courts - Volume 12 - Issue 2 - cup.org/3WylRBE

With papers by @zoerobinson.bsky.social, @matthewhitt.bsky.social, @lisanhager.bsky.social‬, @annamccaghren.bsky.social, @mdm.bsky.social & more

@matthewhitt.bsky.social and I argue that this catastrophic loss of specific support - mostly among Ds - is the death knell of SCOTUS’ legitimacy.

Final pre-print vers while awaiting replication approval: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Provocative (and interesting and worth your consideration to my eye) new paper, indeed...