About Michael Albertus
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Michael Albertus is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He studies how countries allocate opportunity and well-being among their citizens and the consequences this has for society, why some countries are democratic and others aren't, and why some societies fall into civil conflict.
Albertus is the author of five books and over thirty peer-reviewed articles, and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, TIME, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, and elsewhere. He has taught courses to undergraduate, Masters, and PhD students on topics including inequality and redistribution, democracy and dictatorship, comparative politics, and political and economic development and policy in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. He has conducted fieldwork throughout the Americas, southern Europe, South Africa, and elsewhere.