If you're interested in things Latin American, make sure to check this lecture out. Prof. Collier is professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley, currently in residence at the CUNY Graduate Center. She and her husband, David Collier (Chair of the Political Science Department at Berkeley) have established themselves as heavyweights in the field of institutionalist studies generally, and Latin American studies more particularly.
Professor Collier received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974. Her fields of interest are Comparative Politics, Latin America, and Labor Politics. Her current research interests are democratization and regime change, and Mexican politics. Collier’s publications include Regimes in Tropical Africa: Changing Forms of Supremacy, 1945-1975 (UC: 1982), Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America (co-authored, Princeton: 1991), The Contradictory Alliance: State-Labor Relations and Regime Change in Mexico (IIS, UC:1992), and Paths Toward Democracy: Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America (1999, Cambridge).
“Shifting Interest Regimes
of the Working
Classes in Latin America”
Ruth Collier
Professor of Political Science,
University of California,
Berkeley
Tuesday, April 25th
2:30PM
Thesis Room
The Graduate Center, City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY