David Altman

David Altman is a professor of the Political Science Institute at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He received his Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Notre Dame. His research and teaching interests lie in the field of comparative politics with an emphasis on democracy, focusing on its quality, institutions, performance, and innovations. He is the author of Citizenship and Contemporary Direct Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Direct Democracy Worldwide (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He has contributed over sixty articles in leading social science journals as well as chapters in edited volumes.

He has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), FLACSO (Ecuador), the Universidad de la República (Uruguay), the University of Hradec Králové (Czech Republic), the Institute of Developing Economies (Japan), and the Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy). He is Project Manager for the “Varieties of Democracy” research collaborative.