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Biography
Douglas Chalmers (Ph.D., Yale, 1962) was chair of the Department of Political Science from 1978-86, his research has concerned the way in which interests and identities are formed and are represented in political institutions. He has worked on Latin American political change, most recently on the transformations in Mexico. He taught at the Colegio de México in 1993, and led a team of researchers in 1994 looking into the role of non-governmental organizations in that country. In 1996-97, Professor Chalmers served as acting dean for Columbia's School of International and Public affairs. His publications range from The Social Democratic Party of Germany (Yale University Press, New Haven 1964), to The Right and Democracy in Latin America (co-editor with Maria do Carmo Campello de Souza and Atilio Boron, Praeger, 1992). He has recently completed an edited volume on The Politics of Inequality in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 1997). Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, International influence on domestic politics, the role of non-governmental organizations in politics, the representation of new political identities, the structure of types of theory in the social sciences.
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