Itay Machtei

Itay Machtei is a Postdoctoral Associate with the Consortium on the American Political Economy (CAPE) based at the ISPS’s American Political Economy eXchange (APEX) program. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2025. His research agenda broadly focuses on the social and distributive outcomes of state and market institutions, and is organized around two complementary strands: the first investigates how labor and social policies shape income inequality in postindustrial democracies, and the second examines how market-expanding reforms influence citizens’ policy preferences and democratic tenets like political accountability.