For the English poker player known as "The Bandit", see Peter Evans (poker player).

Peter B. Evans (1944-) is a sociologist and political scientist, Chair of the Department of Sociology at the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Evans is widely published on state society relations, industrial economic development in Brazil and Latin America, civil society, and international development issues. He is thus also related to the international political economy literature.

Selected bibliography

• Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational, State, and Local Capital in Brazil (1979)
• Embedded Autonomy: States and industrial Transformation (1995)

Edited Volumes

• Bringing the State Back In, edited with Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol. (1985)
• States Versus Markets in the World-System, edited with Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Evelyne Huber Stephens. (1985)
• High Technology and Third World Industrialization: Brazilian Computer Policy in Comparative Perspective, edited with Claudio R. Frischtak and Paulo Bastos Tigre. (1992)
• Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics, edited with Harold K. Jacobson and Robert Putnam. (1993)
• Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Family and Factory by Louise Lamphere, Patricia Zavella, Felipe Gonzales ; with Peter B. Evans. (1993)
• State-Society Synergy: Government and Social Capital in Development (1997)
• Livable Cities?: Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability (2002)