Sarah M. Brooks

• Comparative and international political economy
• Latin American Politics

Professor 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 the state and market in social and economic relations, risk protection and income security. Her book, Social Protection and the Market: The Transformation of Social Security Institutions in Latin America, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009.

She has also published in The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, World Politics, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly and Comparative Political Studies and has written chapters in edited volumes such as Learning from Foreign Models in Latin American Policy Reform (Weyland, ed., 2004), New Ideas about Old Age Security (Stiglitz and Holzmann, eds., 2001) and Pension Reform: Issues and Prospects for Non-Financial Defined Contribution (NDC) Schemes (Holzmann and Palmer, eds., 2006). Her current research includes analyses of sovereign risk and government policy autonomy, path dependence in policy diffusion and the politics of risk protection.

My Curriculum Vita (pdf)

Selected Publications

2012. "Paths of Policy Diffusion: When and How Diffusion Shapes Financial Globalization in Latin America." International Organization (with Marcus J. Kurtz) (Forthcoming).

2011. "Conditioning the Resource Curse: Globalization, Human Capital, and Growth in Oil Rich Nations" Comparative Political Studies (with Marcus J. Kurtz) (Forthcoming).

2008. "Embedding Neoliberal Reform in Latin America." World Politics (With Marcus J. Kurtz) 60, 2, January.

2007. "Globalization and Pension Reform in Latin America." Latin American Politics and Society, Winter, p. 31-62.

2007. "Capital, Trade, and the Political Economies of Reform." American Journal of Political Science. (With Marcus J. Kurtz) 51, 4, October, p 703-720.

2007. "When Does Diffusion Matter? Explaining the Spread of Structural Pension Reforms across Nations." The Journal of Politics, 69, 3, August, p. 701-715.

2005. “Interdependent and Domestic Foundations of Policy Change: The Diffusion of Pension Privatization Around the World.” International Studies Quarterly 49(2):273-294.

2004. “Explaining Capital Account Liberalization in Latin America: A Transitional Cost Approach.” World Politics 56(3):389-430.

2002. “Social Protection and Economic Integration: the Politics of Pension Reform in an Era of Capital Mobility.” Comparative Political Studies, 35(5):491-525.