Contact Information
Office: 774 Barrows Hall
E-Mail: rcollier@berkeley.edu
Phone: 510 643-8019
People in the Department
Ruth Berins Collier
Heller Professor of Political Science, and Professor of the Graduate School
Groups: Comparative Politics, Latin America
Professor Collier received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her research, across Latin America, Africa, and Europe, has focused on forms of popular participation, political regime and regime change, and labor politics.
Specialization
Latin America, Comparative Politics, Political Regimes, Democratization, Labor
Education
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Books
Reorganizing Popular Politics: Participation and the New Interest Regime in Latin America (co-edited and co-authored), Penn State University Press, 2009
Paths Toward Democracy: Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America (Cambridge, 1999)
The Contradictory Alliance: State-Labor Relations and Regime Change in Mexico (University of California, 1992)
Shaping the Political Arena Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America (co-authored, Princeton, 1991 and University of Notre Dame 2002)
Regimes in Tropical Africa: Changing Forms of Supremacy, 1945-1975 (University of California, 1982)