Sarah Brooks

Associate Professor
Political Science
2052 Derby Hall
614.292.7102
brooks.317@osu.edu

Education
A.B., Political Science, The University of Chicago (1993)
M.A., Political Science, Duke University (1997)
Ph.D., Political Science, Duke University (2001)

Teaching/Research
Dr. Brooks has research and teaching interests in comparative and international political economy, Latin American politics, and social protection. Her research interests center on the relationship between state and market in the organization of social and economic relations, risk protection, and income security. Her current research includes a competing risks analysis of policy diffusion and the politics of risk protection, trade, and international financial liberalization.

Selected Publications
Social Protection and the Market: The Transformation of Social Security Institutions in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

"Embedding Neoliberalism in Latin America," with Marcus J. Kurtz (World Politics, 2008)

"Globalization and Pension Reform in Latin America" (Latin American Politics and Society, 2007)

"Capital, Trade, and the Political Economies of Reform," with Marcus J. Kurtz (American Journal of Political Science, 2007)

"When Does Diffusion Matter? Explaining the Spread of Structural Pension Reforms across Nations" (The Journal of Politics, 2007)

"Lashed to the Mast: The Political Economy of Notional Defined Contribution Pensions," with R. Kent Weaver, in Pension Reform: Issues and prospects for non-financial defined contribution (NDC) schemes, ed. by R. Holzmann and E. Palmer (The World Bank, 2006)

"Interdependent and Domestic Foundations of Policy Change: The Diffusion of Pension Privatization Around the World" (International Studies Quarterly, 2005)

"Explaining Capital Account Liberalization in Latin America: A Transitional Cost Approach" (World Politics, 2004)

"International Financial Institutions and the Diffusion of Foreign Models of Social Security Reform in Latin America" in Learning from Foreign Models in Latin American Policy Reform, ed. by Kurt Weyland (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)

"Social Protection and Economic Integration: the Politics of Pension Reform in an Era of Capital Mobility" (Comparative Political Studies, 2002)

"The Political Economy of Pension Reform," with Estelle James, in New Ideas About Old Age Security: Toward Sustainable Pension Systems in the 21st Century, ed. by Robert Holzmann and Joseph Stiglitz (World Bank, 2001)

Honors, Awards, and Service
Editorial Board, The Journal of Politics

Governing Council, Political Economy Organized Section, American Political Science Association (2007-09)

Best Paper Award, Political Economy Section, American Political Science Association annual meeting, with Marcus Kurtz (2005)

Seed Grant, The Ohio State University, to investigate social policy reforms in Latin America (2002)

Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame (2001)

Mershon Projects
Political Dimensions of Economic and Civil Insecurity in Brazil (2009-10)
Globalization, Institutions and Economic Security speaker series, with Alexander Thompson (2006-07)