MATTHEW C. NEWTON
308 Professional Building, Columbia, MO 65211
(832) 868-4259
MCNewton@mizzou.edu
matthewcnewton.weebly.com
Education
University of Missouri
Ph.D. in Political Science
2015
Comparative Politics and American Politics
Dissertation: Shaping the Game: Federalism and Voting Behavior in Advanced Industrial
Democracies
Committee Members:
James Endersby – Chair
Jay Dow
Laron Williams
Jonathan Sperber (History)
Stephen F. Austin State University
B.S. in Political Science
Minor: International Studies
Summa Cum Laude
2009
Teaching Experience
Assistant Program Director, PS 4840: Developing Dynamics of Democracy
Graduate Instructor, PS 2600: Canadian Politics
Graduate Instructor, PS 1100: American Government
Teaching Assistant, American Presidency
Lab Instructor, Introduction to Political Research (STATA)
Lab Instructor, Introduction to Political Research (SPSS)
Teaching Assistant, Political Parties and Election Campaigns
Teaching Assistant, Democracy in the European Union
Teaching Assistant, Canadian Politics
Summer 2014
Spring 2014
Fall 2013
Spring 2013
Spring 2012
Fall 2011
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
Spring 2010
Additional Training
Jack Miller Center Summer Institute
Participant
July – August 2015
The program offered a variety of seminars, workshops, and lectures designed to
explore the teaching of America's founding principles through the development of a
community of dedicated scholars. The meeting is designed to strengthen education that
communicates the American experience and the great ideas that animate our institutions
to students and is an opportunity to investigate the American experience through the
following primary themes: the Philosophic Foundations of the American Founding,
Constitutionalism, American Political and Economic Institutions, Citizenship and
Culture, and the U.S. and International Relations.
Developing Dynamics of Democracy
Assistant Program Director
Summer 2014
Month-long study abroad program conducted in Leiden, Netherlands and Brussels,
Belgium. Was responsible for coordination of trip events and supervision of
undergraduate students during the course. Also assisted in presentation of course material
and evaluation of student performance throughout.
Preparing Future Faculty
Participant
Fall 2013 – Spring 2014
Year-long training program at the University of Missouri focusing on preparing
graduate students for their role as faculty in academia. Covered a range of subjects
including teaching at different types of institutions outside of the research setting, as well
as classroom diversity training.
Dr. James Endersby, University of Missouri
Research Assistant
Fall 2009, Spring 2010
Worked directly with Director of Graduate Studies; researched, accumulated, and
constructed large sets of data on Irish and Canadian election returns in a timely manner
for use in statistical analyses. I also structured and dispersed a survey to lobbyists and
legislators in the Missouri state legislature. I also assisted with the conducting of
undergraduate surveys, distributed amongst introductory American government courses
throughout the university.
Summer 2010, 2011, and 2013
Also worked directly under in his role as Director of the University of Missouri
Canadian Studies Center; researched, accumulated, and constructed a comprehensive data
set of Canadian election returns from confederation to present, for use in statistical
models.
Publications
The Effect of Term Limits on Patters of Interest Group Contributions in State Legislatures,
2006-2010 (forthcoming in Interest Groups and Advocacy)
With Joshua D. Norberg
Working Papers
When in Brussels Do As the Europeans Do? Euroscepticism and MEP Behavior in the
European Parliament (Under Review)
With Joshua D. Norberg
Consistency of Party Identification: Uniformity of Federal and Provincial Party Choice
across Several Elections
With James Endersby and Steven Galatas
Who is Represented Down Under? Lobbying Interests in Australian Federal and State Levels
The Institution Left Behind: The Impact of Federalism on Comparative Studies of Turnout
European or Irish? The Effect of Party Ideology and Electoral Competitiveness on Turnout
in EU Elections in Ireland
Much Ado about Nothing: Turnout Decline in European Parliament Elections after Thirty
Years, 1979-2009
Major’s Not the Only Major Issue: The European Community and the 1992 British General
Election
What Maastricht Put on the National Political Map, Stays on the Map; a Tale of Two
Elections: The European Community and the 1992 and 1997 British General Elections
Weathering the Storm? Professionalization in Canadian Provincial Legislatures Across the
Global Economic Crisis
Is Representation a Numbers Game? The Effect of Canadian Populations of Interest on Party
System Fractionalization
A Retrospective View of Closeness: Evidence from Turnout in Canadian General Elections
Conference Presentations
Shaping the Game: Institutional Hindsight in Constitutional Design in Federal Countries
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association,
Las Vegas, Nevada April 2015
The Institution Left Behind: The Impact of Federalism on Comparative Studies of Turnout
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Political Science Association,
San Antonio, Texas April 2014
When in Brussels Do As the Europeans Do? Euroscepticism and MEP Behavior in the
European Parliament
With Joshua D. Norberg
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Political Science Association,
San Antonio, Texas April 2014
Who is Represented Down Under? Lobbying Interests at the Federal and State Levels in
Australia
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association,
Chicago, Illinois March 2013
The Effect of Term Limits on Patters of Interest Group Contributions
With Joshua D. Norberg and Jennifer Ann Dubé
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association,
Chicago, Illinois March 2012
Consistency of Party Identification: Uniformity of Federal and Provincial Party Choice
across Several Elections
With James Endersby and Steven Galatas
Paper presented at the twenty-first biennial meeting of the Association for Canadian
Studies in the United States, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada November 2011
Also presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association,
Orlando, Florida January 2012
A Retrospective View of Closeness: Evidence from Turnout in Canadian General Elections
Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Midwest Association for Canadian Studies,
Windsor, Ontario, Canada October 2010
European or Irish?: The Effect of Party Ideology and Electoral Competitiveness on Turnout
in EU Elections in Ireland
Paper presented at the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science
Association, Houston, Texas March 2010
Invited Presentations
Institutional Hindsight: The Constitutional Design of Federal Countries
Invited talk for the Dissertation Fellows Panel of the Kinder Forum on Constitutional
Democracy at the University of Missouri
March 13, 2015
Do Canadians Have Party Identification?
Invited talk for the Eleventh Annual Canada Days at the University of Missouri
February 26, 2015
Grants and Awards
Kinder Dissertation Fellowship, Forum on Constitutional Democracy,
University of Missouri, $18,000
J.G Heinberg Scholarship, University of Missouri, $16,000
Travel grant provided by the United States Embassy for attendance of the
Biennial ACSUS meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, $500
Outstanding World Politics Student, Stephen F. Austin State University
2014
2012
2011
2009 – 2010
Service
Secretary – Graduate Association of Political Scientists
Vice President – Iota Epsilon chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha
2011 - 2012
2009
Memberships
American Political Science Association
Midwest Political Science Association
Western Political Science Association
Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
Midwest Association for Canadian Studies
Southwest Political Science Association
Pi Sigma Alpha, National Political Science Honor Society
Iota Epsilon Chapter
2009 – Present
2011 – Present
2014 – Present
2010 – Present
2010 – Present
2010 – Present
2008 – Present