Rebecca Perlman is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on international political economy, with an emphasis on regulatory politics, the governance of multinational firms, and the politics of climate change.
Her book, Regulating Risk: How Private Information Shapes Global Safety Standards (Cambridge University Press), examines how producers leverage private information to influence regulatory barriers to competition and trade at both domestic and international levels of governance. Her work has also appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Science Advances, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Legal Analysis.
Perlman earned her doctorate in political science from Stanford University. She also holds a master’s degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a bachelor’s degree in politics from Princeton University, where she graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she was an Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
