David Altman

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About David Altman

I am a professor of political science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. I received my Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Notre Dame. My research and teaching interests lie in the field of comparative politics with an emphasis on democracy, focusing on its quality, institutions, performance, and innovations. I am the author of Citizenship and Contemporary Direct Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Direct Democracy Worldwide (Cambridge University Press, 2011). I have contributed over sixty articles in leading social science journals as well as chapters in edited volumes. I have been a visiting professor at Harvard University, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Gothenburg, FLACSO (Ecuador), the Universidad de la República (Uruguay), the University of Hradec Králové (Czech Republic), the Institute of Developing Economies (Japan), the Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy), and the University of Bergen (Norway). I am also Project Manager for the “Varieties of Democracy” research collaborative, and the new Director for the V-Dem Latin America Research Center. If interested in my research, feel free to look at: Google Scholar: https://bit.ly/2DsY0va; ResearcherID: Scopus: ID ORCID: