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Peter Evans is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple subfields within social sciences, with a primary focus on Sociology and Political Science as well as Political Science and International Relations. Their work also touches on General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Public Administration.

The main topics explored by Evans include:

  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Political Economy and Marxism
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Labor Movements and Unions
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Politics and Society in Latin America
  • Social and Political Issues

Evans has frequently published in several academic journals, including:

  • International Sociology
  • Development and Change
  • Annual Review of Sociology
  • Critical Sociology
  • Global Labour Journal

The following are some recent papers by Evans, including their year of publication and publication venue:

  • Introduction: The rise of twenty-first century exclusionary regimes, 2020, International Sociology
  • Polanyi meets Bolsonaro: Reactionary politics and the double movement in twenty-first-century Brazil, 2020, International Sociology
  • Alice Amsden: A Reasoning Revolutionary in Development Economics, 2021, Development and Change
  • From Embedded Autonomy to Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: A 60-Year Adventure in Exploring Comparative Political Economy, 2023, Annual Review of Sociology
  • Evolving Publics and the Practice of Public Sociology, 2024, Critical Sociology

Peter Evans has collaborated with a number of researchers in their field, with Sarah Staveteig being a notable frequent co-author.

Best Publications

  • Embedded Autonomy

    Peter B. Evans

  • Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation

    Peter Evans

  • Bringing the State Back in

    Peter B. Evans;Dietrich Rueschemeyer;Theda Skocpol

  • Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational, State, and Local Capital in Brazil

    Peter B. Evans

  • Government action, social capital and development: Reviewing the evidence on synergy

    Peter Evans

  • Bureaucracy and Growth: A Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of "Weberian" State Structures on Economic Growth

    Peter Evans;James Rauch

  • Bureaucratic structure and bureaucratic performance in less developed countries

    James E Rauch;James E Rauch;Peter B Evans

  • The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization

    Peter B. Evans

  • The Politics of Economic Adjustment: International Constraints, Distributive Conflicts and the State

    Stephan Haggard;Robert R. Kaufman;Peter B. Evans

  • Predatory, developmental, and other apparatuses: A comparative political economy perspective on the Third World state

    Peter B. Evans

  • Development as institutional change: The pitfalls of monocropping and the potentials of deliberation

    Peter Evans

  • Collective capabilities, culture, and Amartya Sen’sDevelopment as Freedom

    Peter Evans

  • EL ESTADO COMO PROBLEMA Y COMO SOLUCION

    Peter Evans

  • Double-edged diplomacy : international bargaining and domestic politics

    Peter B. Evans;Harold Karan Jacobson;Robert D. Putnam

  • Introduction: Development strategies across the public-private divide

    Peter Evans

  • Bringing the State Back In: The State and Economic Transformation: Toward an Analysis of the Conditions Underlying Effective Intervention

    Dietrich Rueschemeyer;Peter B. Evans

  • Fighting Marginalization with Transnational Networks: Counter-Hegemonic Globalization

    Peter Evans

  • Dependence, Inequality, and the Growth of the Tertiary: A Comparative Analysis of Less Developed Countries

    Peter B. Evans;Michael Timberlake

  • State-society synergy : government and social capital in development

    Peter B. Evans

  • Livable Cities?: Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability

    Peter Evans

  • Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation.

    William Form;Peter Evans

  • Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational, State and Local Capital in Brazil.

    Harry M. Makler;Peter Evans

  • Bureaucratic Structure and Bureaucratic Performance in Less Developed Countries - eScholarship

    James E Rauch;Peter B. Evans

Frequent Co-Authors

James E. Rauch
James E. Rauch University of California, San Diego
Doug McAdam
Doug McAdam Stanford University
John D. Kasarda
John D. Kasarda University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mayer N. Zald
Mayer N. Zald University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James C. Scott
James C. Scott Yale University
Alfred D. Chandler
Alfred D. Chandler Harvard University
Stephan Haggard
Stephan Haggard University of California, San Diego
Alberto Alesina
Alberto Alesina Harvard University
James F. Scott
James F. Scott University of St Andrews

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