Michael Albertus

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

In op-ed, Asst. Prof. Michael Albertus says ‘democracy itself is creaking under the weight of popular pressure’ of land reform in South Africa


Michael Albertus

Title: Professor of Political Science; Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs in the Division of the Social Sciences

Expertise: Authoritarianism, Democracy, Politics

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