Dr. Matthew S. Levendusky is an Associate Professor of Political Science at The University of Pennsylvania. Stanford University awarded him a Ph.D., and The Pennsylvania State University awarded him a B.A. His research focuses on understanding how institutions and elites influence ordinary citizens’ political behaviour, including studies of mass polarisation, the effects of partisan media, and a variety of other topics.
His work has received numerous awards, including the 2011 Jewell-Lowenberg Award (for the best article published in Legislative Studies Quarterly), the 2013 best paper award from the Journal of Politics, the 2014 Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center (for How Partisan Media Polarize America), and the 2016 Erik Erikson Early Career Award from the International Association for Political Research.