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Yoshiko Herrera
Yoshiko M. Herrera received her B.A. from Dartmouth College (1992) and M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1999) from University of Chicago. She taught at Harvard University from 1999-2007 and currently is Associate Professor in the department of Political Science at University of Wisconsin. Her research interests include politics in Russia and the former Soviet states; social identities including methodological issues and measurement; nationalism, regionalism and ethnic politics; identity-related variables in public health and demography; norms and institutional change, including bureaucracy; constructivist political economy; and political psychology. She teaches courses on comparative politics, identity, institutional change, post-socialist economic transitions, and politics of the states of the Former Soviet Union. Her first book, "Imagined Economies: The Sources of Russian Regionalism" (Cambridge University Press, 2005), examined the relationship between economics and regionalism in movements for greater sovereignty among the Russian regions of the Russian Federation. She has recently finished a second book titled, "Transforming Bureaucracy: Conditional Norms and the International Standardization of Statistics in Russia." This book takes up the question of bureaucratic reform, and why seasoned bureaucrats sometimes are, or are not, willing to change course. The investigation includes cross-national quantitative analysis of implementation of the international System of National Accounts and an in-depth case study of bureaucratic change based on the recent experience of reform of the Russian Federation's statistical agency. Other on-going research includes a collaborative project on the measurement of identity with Rawi Abdelal, Alastair Iain Johnston, and Rose McDermott. Finally, she is beginning a project on the role of identity-related variables in public health and demography outcomes in the states of the former Soviet Union.
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Recent Publications
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Yoshiko Herrera, Rawi Abdelal, Alastair Iain Johnston, and Rose McDermott eds.: Measuring Identity: A Guide for Social Scientists. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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