Michael Albertus is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. His research interests include redistribution, political regime transitions and regime stability, politics under dictatorship, clientelism, and conflict. Albertus's first book, Autocracy and Redistribution: The Politics of Land Reform (Cambridge, 2015), won the Gregory Luebbert Award for best book in comparative politics and the LASA Bryce Wood Award for best book on Latin America in the social sciences and humanities. He has also recently published in journals such as American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, British Journal of Political Science, and Comparative Political Studies.