CPPR Political Science Seminar: Mary Gallagher
Center for Public Policy Research seminar series
Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights & Director of the International Institute at the University of Michigan
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Each semester, the Murphy Center for Public Policy Research and the Tulane Political Science Department invite leading political scientists to campus to share cutting-edge research while engaging with faculty and graduate students. Research presented covers all aspects of contemporary politics science, including comparative politics, international relations, American politics, and normative theory.
Mary E. Gallagher is the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights at the University of Michigan where she is also the director of the International Institute. Gallagher’s research looks at urbanization and social change in China, especially as related to internal migration, economic development, and workplace conditions. More specifically, her work examines economic and social inequality in China, social security and social welfare, and the status of rights at the workplace with a particular focus on rural migrants in China.
She has special interests in social policy, human rights, and labor and employment law, especially in China and Taiwan. Her most recent book is Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers and the State, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.
