Peter Johannessen

About

Peter Johannessen is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and a faculty fellow at UVA’s Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE). Johannessen’s research explores how popular participation shapes the local policy-making process, including projects that focus on local electoral responsiveness and the design of participatory governance institutions in Brazil. These projects engage with broader debates about democratic representation and the consequences of decentralization reforms in the developing world. For his work, he received the 2018 Susan Clarke Young Scholars’ Award from APSA’s Urban and Local Politics Section. His research has been published in Comparative Political Studies.

Before joining Batten, Johannessen was a postdoctoral fellow with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to that, he was a Visiting Fellow with the Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame and a Quin Morton Teaching Fellow with the Princeton Writing Program.