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Published Articles and Book Chapters

Books and Monographs:

LIVABLE CITIES? Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability? (edited)(Berkeley: CA: UC Press, 2001) For more information, view links below. Publisher’s website for Livable Cities Table of contents from Livable Cities Chapter 1 of Livable Cities Conclusion of Livable Cities For some additional chapters see "Courses Taught & Syllabi"

State-Society Synergy: Government Action and Social Capital in Development. (edited) (Berkeley: CA: UC Berkeley, International and Area Studies Publications, 1997) [ Research Series, No. 94] ( includes articles from World Development, June, 1996 issue -- see articles, below)

Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995) [ Winner of 1996 Award for Distinguished Scholarship Award from The Political Economy of the World System Section of the American Sociological Association and 1997 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award from The Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.] For more information, view links below. Table of contents from Embedded Autonomy Excerpts from Embedded Autonomy Conclusion of Embedded Autonomy

BRAZILIAN EDITION OF EMBEDDED AUTONOMY Autonomia e parceria: Estados e Transformação Industrial Editora UFRJ (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), 2004. Conhecido no Brasil por seu livro A tríplice aliança, que trata do modelo tripartite adotado nos anos 1970 para a criação da indústria petroquímica, Peter Evans, atualmente professor na Universidade de Berkeley, oferece neste seu novo livro importantes sugestões para que o Brasil possa ingressar vantajosamente nos setores mais dinâmicos e tecnologicamente desafiadores da indústria globalizada. Com base em pesquisas realizadas em diferentes países em desenvolvimento, entre os quais o Brasil, Autonomia e parceria termina propondo, como estratégia adequada para a modernização industrial, uma colaboração entre as elites privadas e a ação do Estado. tradução de Christina Bastos Tigre, com revisão técnica e prefácio: Paulo Tigre Publishers Website: http://www.editora.ufrj.br/

2001 Iranian edition of Embedded Autonomy back cover

Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics (co-edited with Harold Jacobson and Robert Putnam) (University of California Press, 1993) [ in series - Studies in International Political Economy, Stephen Krasner, Miles Kahler, and Ernest Haas series editors ].

High Technology and Third World Industrialization: Brazilian Computer Policy in Comparative Perspective. co-edited with Claudio Frischtak and Paulo Tigre) (Berkeley: CA: UC Berkeley, International and Area Studies Publications, 1992) [ Research Series, No. 85]

Informática Brasileira em Transição: Política Governamental e Tendências Internacionais nos Anos 90, co-edited with Claudio Frischtak and Paulo Tigre, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Instituto de Economia Industrial, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1992. [Portuguese version of IAS volume above]

Bringing the State Back In: New Perspectives on the State as Institution and Social Actor. (edited with Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol) Cambridge University Press, 1985).

States vs. Markets in the World_system. (Co_edited with Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Evelyne Stephens) Beverly Hills, CA.: Sage, 1985).

The Changing International Position of U.S. Manufacturing and U.S. Industrial Policy: Implications for Latin American Industrialization . Prepared for Regional and Country Studies Branch, United Nations Industrial Development Organization. (Vienna: UNIDO, 1984) (UNIDO/IS.453).

Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational State and Local Capital in Brazil (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979).

A Tríplice Aliança: As Multinacionais, as Estatais e o Capital Nacional no Desenvolvimento Dependente Brasileiro . (Biblioteca de Ciências Sociais: Economia) (Translated, W. Dutra) Rio de Janeiro: Zahar Editores, 1980. (translation of Dependent Development).

Published Articles and Book Chapters:

“Counter-hegemonic Globalization: Transnational Social Movements in the Contemporary Global Political Economy ” Forthcoming [spring 2005] in the Handbook of Political Sociology Thomas Janoski, Alexander M. Hicks & Mildred Schwartz (eds.) Cambridge University Press.

“The Challenges of the ‘Institutional Turn’: Interdisciplinary Opportunities in Development Theory,” 2005. in The Economic Sociology of Capitalist Institutions. Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg (eds). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

“Building Bridges Across a Double-Divide: Alliances between U.S. and Latin American Labor and NGOs” (with Mark Anner) Development in Practice. 14(1-2)[2004]:34-47.

“Collective Capabilities, Culture and Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom,” Studies in Comparative International Development. 37(2)[summer, 2002]: 54-60

“Development as Institutional Change: The Pitfalls of Monocropping and Potentials of Deliberation” Forthcoming. Studies in Comparative International Development. 38(4) [Winter, 2004]: 30-53. [a preliminary Portuguese version of the argument presented in this article appeared as “Além da ‘Monocultura Institucional’: instituições, capacidades e desenvolvimento deliberativo” in Sociologias 5(9) [January-June, 2003]: 20-63]

"Bureaucracy and Growth: A Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of 'Weberian' State Structures on Economic Growth," (with James Rauch) forthcoming in American Sociological Review , vol. 64, no.5 (October, 1999)

• "Bureaucracy and Growth: A Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of 'Weberian' State Structures on Economic Growth" (PDF format)
• Abstract of "Bureacracy and Growth"
• View codebook and dataset for project (in HTML)

"Bureaucratic Structure and Bureaucratic Performance in Less Developed Countries," (with James Rauch). (forthcoming in Journal of Public Economics).

• "Bureaucratic Structure and Bureaucratic Performance" (PDF format)
• View codebook and dataset for project (in HTML)

"Sustainability, Degradation and Livelihood in Third World Cities: Possibilities for State_Society Synergy" forthcoming in The United Nations and the Global Environment in the 21st Century: From Common Challenges to Shared Responsibilities , edited by Pamela S. Chasek. (Tokyo: UNU Press 1999).

"Transferable Lessons? Re-examining the Institutional Prerequisites of East Asian Economic Policies," Journal of Developmental Studies 34(6):66-86 [August, 1998] [ Reprinted in Yilmaz Akyüz (ed.) East Asian Development: New Perspectives. London: Frank Cass, 1999.]

"Alternativas al Estado Desarrollista: Lecciones de la crisis de Asia Oriental" Nueva Sociedad no. 166 (July, 1998) [Caracas, Venezuela]. [Article based on chapter 10 of Embedded Autonomy see books above]

"Análise do Estado no Mundo Neoliberal: Uma Abordagem Institucional Comparativa" Revista de Economia Contemporânea [Published by the Instituto de Economia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro], no. 4, July-December, 1998.

"Re-envisioning the Reform Process: A State-Society Synergy Perspective," in Iberoamericana:: Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies [Published by the Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University] 28(1-2)[1998]: 223-242.

"The State and Globalization," Swiss Political Science Review (May, 1998) [Article drawing on the 1997 World Politics piece -- see below]

"Transnational Corporations and Third World States: From the Old Internationalization to the New" pp. 195-224 in Transnational Corporations and the World Economy , Richard Kozul-Wright and Robert Rowthorn (eds). London: MacMillan, 1998.

"The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization," World Politics 50 (October, 1997): 62-87.

"State Structures, Government-Business Relations and Economic Transformation" pp. 63-87 in Business and the State in Developing Countries , Ben Ross Schneider and Sylvia Maxfield (eds.) Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.

"Development Strategies across the Public-Private Divide" World Development 24(6) [June, 1996]: 1033-1037

"Government Action, Social Capital and Development: Reviewing the Evidence on Synergy," World Development 24(6) [June, 1996]:1119-1132.

"Embedded Autonomy and Industrial Transformation," Political Power and Social Theory 10 [1996]:259-282.

"Reconstructing Agency in a Global Economy: Reflections on Embedded Autonomy," Political Power and Social Theory 10:333-345. [1996]

(with Atul Kohli, Peter Katzenstein, Adam Przeworski, Susanne Rudolph, James Scott and Theda Skocpol) "The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics: A Symposium," World Politics 48(1):1-49 [October, 1995].

"Building an Integrative Approach to International and Domestic Politics: Reflections and Projections", Concluding chapter in Evans, Jacobson and Putnam, 1993 [see books above]

"Greenhouses and Strategic Nationalism: A Comparative Analysis of Brazil’s Informatics Policy" pp. 1-38 in Evans, Frischtak and Tigre (eds), 1992. [see books above]

"The Context of Sunbelt Industrialization", chapt.2 in Lamphere, Zavella and Gonzales, Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Family and Factory. Cornell University Press, 1993.

"The State as Problem and Solution: Predation, Embedded Autonomy and Adjustment" in Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman (eds.) The Politics of Economic Adjustment: International Constraints, Distributive Politics, and the State . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. [article is an expanded, policy oriented version of the argument presented in Sociological Forum, 1989]. Reprinted as "El Estado como Problema y como Solucion" Desarrollo Económico: Revista de Ciencias Sociales [Buenos Aires] 35(140)[January -March, 1996]: 529-562. Same translation also reprinted by Instituto de Estudios Peruanos [Lima]. To be reprinted in forthcoming edition of Leading Issues in Development Economics.

"Indian Informatics in the Eighties: The Changing Character of State Involvement" World Development 20(1):1-18 [Winter, 1992].

"Declínio da Hegemonia e a Industrialização Afirmativa: Conflitos entre Brasil e Estados Unidos na Indústria de Computadores" DADOS: Revista de Ciências Sociais 33(2):311-351 [1990] [translation of International Organization , 1989 article ]

"Predatory, Developmental and Other Apparatuses: A Comparative Political Economy Perspective on the Third World State," Sociological Forum. 4(4):561-587 (December, 1989) Reprinted in Comparative National Development: Society and Economy in the New Global Order. A. Douglas Kincaid and Alejandro Portes (eds.) (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994)

"Depredadores, desarrollistas y otros apparatos estatales: Une perspectiva Comparativa político-económica sobre el Estado en el Tercer Mundo" pp. 133-173 in A. Portes and A.D. Kincaid (eds.) Teorías del Desarrollo Nacional San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana, 1991. [ translation of article above ]

CURRENT PROJECTS (Spring 2005)

The Papers that follow below are Draft versions – for references to subsequent Published versions – see the CV and Publications sections of this web site.

Development as Well-being & Capability Enhancement

• See papers on Sen’s capability approach and “Development as Institutional Change” under “papers” on home page.
• Research and writing underway includes collaboration with the “Successful Societies” project of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR) see http://www.ciar.ca/
• Related research on development and employment underway with Sarah Staveteig.
• Related collaboration includes work with UNU-WIDER Project on “Institutions for Economic Development:Theory, History, and Contemporary Experiences” see http://www.wider.unu.edu/research/research.htm
• Book manuscript in progress

Labor as a Global Social Actor

• See paper with Mark Anner under “working papers” on home page. [ “Building Bridges Across a Double-Divide: Alliances between U.S. and Latin American Labor and NGOs” (with Mark Anner) Development in Practice. 14(1-2)[2004]:34-47.]
• Research under way includes project on “Labor Protest in the Global South at the Turn of the Millennium” with Anna Wetterberg.

Green Governance

• Collaborative project with Michael Watts and Nancy Peluso on environmental politics in Brazil, Indonesia and Nigeria, funded by the Luce Foundation. [website under construction]

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