He taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1997–2001 and at Chapel Hill since 2001; between 2008 and 2013 he was the Chair of the Global Studies Curriculum there.
Since 1995 he has undertaken advising missions to over twenty countries and been an expert consultant for half a dozen others.
International Foundation for Election Systems
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He has published opinion pieces in the New York Times, Washington Post, and other papers. He also and sits on the editorial board of the academic journal Representation.[3] His work has been translated into multiple languages: French, Spanish, Arabic, Serbo-Croat, Albanian, Burmese, and Portuguese.
His opinion piece in the North Carolina newspaper
News and Observer on research from the Electoral Integrity Project, on whose International Advisory Board Reynolds sits, received attention when it declared his home state of North Carolina could "no longer considered to be a fully functioning democracy" with 12 other U.S. states scoring as poorly.[4]Andrew Gelman, a Columbia University statistician, subsequently criticized Reynolds's op-ed and the statistical basis of the EIP's ratings.[5]
Reynolds, Andrew; Reilly, Andrew (1997). Electoral system design: the new international IDEA handbook (volume 1). Stockholm, Sweden: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA).
Reynolds, Andrew, ed. (2002). The architecture of democracy: constitutional design, conflict management, and democracy. Oxford, UK New York: Oxford University Press.
Reynolds, Andrew; Reilly, Ben; Ellis, Andrew (2005). Electoral system design: the new international IDEA handbook. Stockholm, Sweden: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA).
