{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:26:35","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\"><div class=\"container px-0\"><div class=\"row align-items-start\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/martinez\/files\/Michael-D.-Martinez-photo.jpg\" alt=\"dr martinez\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\"><br>\nMichael Martinez is Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida.&nbsp; His research interests fall broadly into the field of electoral behavior and public opinion.&nbsp;&nbsp;He is coeditor of <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1057\/9781403979094\"><em>Ambivalence and the Structure of Political Opinion<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-1-137-07782-0\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Ambivalence, Politics, and Public Policy<\/span><\/a> (both with Stephen C. Craig).&nbsp; His research on ambivalence, voter turnout, partisanship, voting behavior, and ideology has appeared in several scholarly journals, including <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Journal of Politics<\/span>,<span style=\"font-style: italic\"> American Journal of Political Science<\/span>,<span style=\"font-style: italic\"> Political Research Quarterly<\/span>,<span style=\"font-style: italic\"> Political Behavior<\/span>,<span style=\"font-style: italic\"> Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Psychology, <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties, The Forum,&nbsp; Political Analysis, <em>Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, <\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Social Science Quarterly<\/span>,<span style=\"font-style: italic\"> Canadian Journal of Political Science<\/span>,<span style=\"font-style: italic\"> State and Local Government Review<\/span>,<span style=\"font-style: italic\"> Polity, Contemporary Jewry, and American Politics Research<\/span>.&nbsp; He has received research support from the Canadian Embassy Faculty Research Support program, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Calgary.&nbsp; He has co-authored articles and conference papers with several graduate students, including David Hill (now at Stetson University), Tad Delegal, Jason Gainous (now at University of Louisville), and Enrijeta Shino (now at University of Alabama).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1998, the United States Information Service sponsored a series of lectures on the US election by Professor Martinez at universities in Winnipeg, Calgary, and Vancouver.&nbsp; In 2004, U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Information Programs sponsored Professor Martinez&#8217;s lectures on the US elections at universities in Charlottetown, St. Johns, N.B., and Halifax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He teaches graduate seminars and undergraduate courses in political behavior, research methods, and American Politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has previously served as Department Chair, Graduate Coordinator, Undergraduate Coordinator, and Honors Coordinator in the Department of Political Science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph.D. in Political Science (1985) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umich.edu\/\">University of Michigan<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.A. in Political Science (1980) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uno.edu\/\">University of New Orleans<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Certificate of Participation in Program in European Studies (1980) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tilburguniversity.nl\/\">Tilburg University<\/a>, The Netherlands.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.A. in Government (1977) and A.S. in Computer Science (1976) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selu.edu\/\">Southeastern Louisiana University<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Political Behavior:\u00a0 Political Participation, Partisanship, Public Opinion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research Methods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>American Politics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canadian Politics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/martinez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/martinez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/martinez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/martinez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/martinez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/martinez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/martinez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/martinez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}