Michael Albertus

Departmental website:
https://political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/michael-albertus

Michael Albertus focuses his research on the political conditions under which governments implement egalitarian reforms. Other research interests include political regime transitions and stability, politics under dictatorship, clientelism and civil conflict.

His second book, Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy, was published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press. His first book, Autocracy and Redistribution: The Politics of Land Reform (2015) won the 2016 Luebbert Book Award for the best book in comparative politics published in the previous two years, as well as the 2017 LASA Bryce Wood Book Award for the best book on Latin America in the social sciences and humanities.

Albertus' work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Economics & Politics, World Development and Latin American Research Review.

Michael Albertus

  • Title: Professor of Political Science, Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs in the Division of the Social Sciences
  • Education: PhD, Stanford University; BS, BSE, both from University of Michigan
  • Joined UChicago faculty: 2012
  • albertus@uchicago.edu

Media Contacts

Elizabeth Braun Rush

Executive Director for Strategic Communications, Social Sciences Division

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Expertise

Authoritarianism, Democracy, Politics

Albertus Stories

Piketty thinks South Africa needs to redistribute land. Democracies can’t do that. Dictators can.

Piketty thinks South Africa needs to redistribute land. Democracies can’t do that. Dictators can.