Thomas Collombat
Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at McGill University
I obtained my PhD in Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011. I have been a professor at McGill University since 2011 and served as Director of the Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID) at McGill University until 2023.
My research falls within the field of comparative politics. It focuses on issues of corruption and development, political competition, the relationship between the media and politics, anti-corruption and transparency policies, as well as democracy and the rule of law. My recent work shows that corruption scandals are politically motivated, that judicial prosecutions are not always an effective anti-corruption tool, that media polarization has increased in Latin America and is shaped by media ownership dynamics, and that the legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America resist simplistic interpretations as either entirely positive or negative.
Languages: French, English, Spanish, Portuguese
Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at McGill University
Main research areas
- State–trade union relations from a comparative perspective
- The territorial dimension of trade unionism
- The political economy of the labor movement
Recent research projects
Corporatism and state–trade union relations in Latin America
A comparative approach to trade union responses to the return of the right to power in Argentina and Brazil
The construction of trade union territory from a comparative perspective
Most recent publications
2024 Corporatisme et rapport État-syndicalisme en Amérique latine Approche comparée des réactions du mouvement syndical au retour de la droite au pouvoir en Argentine et au Brésil La construction du territoire syndical en approche comparée
2024 Corporatisme ». Dans Marie-Hélène Sa Vilas Boa, Hélène Combes, Marie Laure Geoffray et Camille Goirand (dir.), Dictionnaire politique de l’Amérique latine, Paris : Éditions de l’IHEAL : 134-141.
2023 Le syndicalisme : institution ébranlée, mouvement social essentiel ». Dans Pascale Dufour, Laurence Bherer et Geneviève Pagé (dir.), Le Québec en mouvements. Continuité et renouvellement des pratiques militantes, Montréal : Presses de l’Université de Montréal : 267-284.
2022 Local Advocacy ». Dans Alex Marland et Thierry Giasson (dir.), Inside the Local Campaign. Constituency Elections in Canada, Vancouver : UBC Press : 362-380.
2022 (Avec X. Lafrance) « Recomposition de la gauche québécoise et rôle politique du syndicalisme », Recherches sociographiques, vol. LXIII, no. 1-2 : 131-156.
2022 (Avec M. D’Amours) « Qu'est devenu le modèle québécois de relations professionnelles ? », Nouvelle Revue du Travail [En ligne], no. 21, https://doi.org/10.4000/nrt.12747
2020 Vague rose et syndicalisme : enseignements des expériences argentine et brésilienne », Interventions économiques [En ligne], 64 | 2020, http://journals.openedition.org/interventionseconomiques/10436
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