Marc Joseph Hetherington (born June 20, 1968) is an American

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

. He is a professor of

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

Biography

Hetherington has taught at the

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Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

, Bowdoin College, and

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

. He received a

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from

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the univers ...

and a PhD in

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from the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,07 ...

. Hetherington is author of ''Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism'' and ''Parties, Politics, and Public Policy in America'' with William Keefe, and of ''Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics'' with Jonathan Weiler. Hetherington is married to Suzanne Globetti, a

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and currently resides in Chapel Hill.

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1968 births Living people University of Pittsburgh alumni University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni Vanderbilt University faculty American political scientists Voting theorists {{US-polisci-bio-stub