Contact Information
Email
322-6240
332 Commons Center
Office Hours
Monday 10:00 - 11:00 am, Tuesday 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, and by appointment.
Education
Ph.D., Government, University of Texas at Austin
Subfields
Research Networks
Research on Individuals, Politics, and Society Lab (RIPS)
Specializations
Political Behavior
Curriculum Vitae
Marc J. Hetherington
Director of Placement
Professor
Marc arrived at Vanderbilt in 2004. He has published two books about the American electorate -- Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism (Princeton University Press, 2005) and Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics ((with Jonathan Weiler) Cambridge University Press, 2009). He has also published numerous articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, and British Journal of Political Science. Taken together, his publications have generated over 600 Social Sciences Citation Index citations. In 2004, he won the Emerging Scholar Award from the APSA section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior, and he has also won several teaching awards. Beyond the scholarly world, Marc is married with two childen (one a particularly talented guitarist and the other a particularly talented athlete). Before beginning graduate school, he worked in politics for two years and continues to count real world politics among his passions.
Representative publications
- Hetherington, Marc J., and Jason A. Husser. "How Trust Matters: The Changing Political Relevance of Political Trust." American Journal of Political Science. Forthcoming.
- Hetherington, Marc J., and Elizabeth Suhay. "Authoritarianism, Threat, and Americans' Support for the War on Terror." American Journal of Political Science 55 (2011): 546-560.
- Hetherington, Marc J. "Putting Polarization in Perspective." British Journal of Political Science 39(2009): 413-448.
- Hetherington, Marc J., and Jonathan Weiler. Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Hethertington, Marc J., and Thomas J. Rudolph. "Priming, Performance, and the Dynamics of Political Trust." Journal of Politics 70(2008): 498-512.
- Hetherington, Marc J. Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press Hardcover, 2005, Paperback 2007).
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