Ruth Berins Collier
Professor of Political Science
Phone: (510) 643-8019
Office Location: 774 Barrows
Office Hours: Tu 4-5
Fall 2008 Course: Not teaching in Political Science this term
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. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Comparative and Latin American Politics. Her current research interests are democratization and regime change, Mexican politics, and labor 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).