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How politics can fuel or fail democracy, development, and equality

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About Michael Albertus

Professor of Political Science at University of Chicago and author of Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies. He writes on democracy equality, and development on Substack (The Good Society) and X.

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