Her main research interests involve comparative political economy and comparative social policy. In particular, her work focuses on the politics of market oriented reforms in the welfare state, and the politics of institutional change more generally. Her more recent work has focused on the consequences of marketization and retrenchment on public attitudes and voting behavior and the changing political coalitions around the welfare state, asking how changes in the structure of the state have reshaped the political demands that citizens put on it. She is now embarking a new project on educational reform in the OECD from 1945-present, funded by the European Research Council, which looks to examine changing educational structures at the country and regional level.