David Collier (political scientist)

David Collier (born February 17, 1942) is Chancellor’s Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He works in the fields of comparative politics, Latin American politics, and methodology. Recent co-authored and co-edited methodological work includes Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, 2nd expanded edition; Statistical Models and Causal Inference: A Dialogue with the Social Sciences; and The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology. Collier is engaged in ongoing projects on the challenges of integrating quantitative and qualitative methods and of using this integrated perspective to gain new leverage in conceptualization, measurement, and causal inference.

Career

At Berkeley, Collier has been Chair of the Political Science Department and of the Center for Latin American Studies, and he was founding Co-Director of the Berkeley-Stanford Program in Latin American Studies. He has served as President of the Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association; has been a Vice President of APSA; and was the founding President of the APSA Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research. Collier has played an active role in building the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, an international training program held annually at Syracuse University. At Berkeley he is centrally involved in training scholars in the fields of Latin American politics, comparative politics, and methodology, and he won Berkeley’s campus-wide Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award.

Collier received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is an elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Bibliography

Books

Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, second and expanded edition, co-authored and edited with Henry E. Brady (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010) [1]

Statistical Models and Causal Inference: A Dialogue with the Social Sciences, by David A. Freedman, edited by David Collier, Jasjeet S. Sekhon, and Philip B. Stark (Cambridge, 2009) [2]

Concepts and Method in Social Science: The Tradition of Giovanni Sartori, edited with John Gerring (Routledge, 2009) [3]

Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology, edited with Janet Box-Steffensmeier and Henry E. Brady (Oxford University Press, 2008) [4]

Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America, co-authored with Ruth Berins Collier (Princeton University Press, 1991; reissued in 2002 by University of Notre Dame Press, with a Preface by Guillermo O’Donnell) [5]

The New Authoritarianism in Latin American, editor and co-author (Princeton University Press, 1979) [6]

Squatters and Oligarchs: Authoritarian Rule and Policy Change in Peru (Johns Hopkins, 1976) [7]

Articles

“Conceptual Hierarchies in Comparative Research.” Chap. 10 in Concepts & Method in Social Science: The Tradition of Giovanni Sartori, 2009 [8]

“Symposium: Case Selection, Case Studies, and Causal Inference.” Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Fall 2008 [9]

“Qualitative and Multi-Method Research: Organizations, Publication, and Reflections on Integration.” Chap. 34 in The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology, 2008 [10]

"Toward a Pluralistic Vision of Methodology," with Henry E. Brady and Jason Seawright. Political Analysis 14, No. 3 (2006): 353–68. [11]

"Essentially Contested Concepts," with Fernando Daniel Hidalgo and Andra Olivia Maciuceanu. Journal of Political Ideologies 11, No. 3 (Oct. 2006): 211–46. [12]

"Democracy and Dichotomies: A Pragmatic Approach to Choices about Concepts" Annual Review of Political Science, 1999 [13]

"Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research," with Robert Adcock. APSR 95, No. 3 (Sept. 2001): 529–46. [14]

"Democracy with Adjectives," with Steven Levitsky. World Politics 49, No. 3 (1997): 430-51. [15]

"Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in Qualitative Research," with James Mahoney. World Politics 49, No. 1 (1996): 56-91. [16]

"Translating Quantitative Methods for Qualitative Researchers: The Case of Selection Bias." American Political Science Review, 1995 [17]

"Conceptual Stretching Revisited," with James E. Mahon. APSR 87, No. 4 (Dec. 1993): 845-55. [18]

"The Comparative Method." In Ada Finifter, ed., Political Science: State of the Discipline II, APSA, 1993. [19]

"Strategic Choice Models of Political Change in Latin America." Comparative Politics, 1992 [20]

"Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies." In Collier and Collier, Shaping the Political Arena 1991 [21]

"Inducements versus Constraints: Disaggregating Corporatism." American Political Science Review, 1979 [22]

"Industrial Modernization and Political Change: A Latin American Perspective." World Politics, 1978 [23]

"Prerequisites versus Diffusion: Testing Alternative Explanations of Social Security Adoption." American Political Science Review, 1975 [24]

"Timing of Economic Growth and Regime Characteristics in Latin America." Comparative Politics, 1975 [25]

External Links & References

Personal website [26]

Interview with David Collier, “Critical Junctures, Concepts and Methods,” in Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder, eds., Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics (Johns Hopkins, 2007) [27]

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