About Me
I am a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. I study inequality and redistribution, democracy and dictatorship, regime transitions and stability, and civil conflict.
My most recent book is Property without Rights: Origins and Consequences of the Property Rights Gap (Cambridge University Press, 2021). It was profiled in The Atlantic and won an honorable mention for best book from APSA's 2022 Autocracy and Democracy section. I am also the author of Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Autocracy and Redistribution: The Politics of Land Reform (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Autocracy and Redistribution 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.
My research has also been published in the American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Annual Review of Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Political Science Research and Methods, Journal of Democracy, Economics & Politics, World Development, and Latin American Research Review.
I write regularly for public audiences as well. Recent op-eds include the consequences of Chile's referendum to write a new constitution, polarization in Chile's presidential election, and the effects of the coronavirus on Latin America.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Michael Albertus
Department of Political Science
University of Chicago
5828 S. University Avenue, Pick Hall 417
Chicago, IL 60637
E-mail: albertus[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-8056
I am a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. I study inequality and redistribution, democracy and dictatorship, regime transitions and stability, and civil conflict.
My most recent book is Property without Rights: Origins and Consequences of the Property Rights Gap (Cambridge University Press, 2021). It was profiled in The Atlantic and won an honorable mention for best book from APSA's 2022 Autocracy and Democracy section. I am also the author of Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Autocracy and Redistribution: The Politics of Land Reform (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Autocracy and Redistribution 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.
My research has also been published in the American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Annual Review of Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Political Science Research and Methods, Journal of Democracy, Economics & Politics, World Development, and Latin American Research Review.
I write regularly for public audiences as well. Recent op-eds include the consequences of Chile's referendum to write a new constitution, polarization in Chile's presidential election, and the effects of the coronavirus on Latin America.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Michael Albertus
Department of Political Science
University of Chicago
5828 S. University Avenue, Pick Hall 417
Chicago, IL 60637
E-mail: albertus[at]uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-8056
