Institute of International Studies; UC Berkeley
Peter Brandt Evans
Peter Evans is Professor of Sociology at UC
Berkeley. His research and writing deal with the comparative political economy of developing countries, with a focus on industrialization and the role of the state. His most recent books include Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995); Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics (coedited with H. Jacobson and R. Putnam; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993); and High Technology and Third World Industrialization: Brazilian Computer Policy in Comparative Perspective (coedited with C. Frischtak and P. Tigre; Berkeley: International and Area Studies Publications, 1982).