She earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014. She studies the process through which social policies are formed and implemented, as well as the territorial structure of government in Latin America. Her book manuscript Uneven Social Policies analyzes the implementation of non-contributory social policies in decentralized countries. Her work on the politics of social policy and on multilevel governance has been published by Oxford University Press, Comparative Political Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, the Journal of Politics in Latin America, Regional and Federal Studies, and International Political Science Review. Webpage: http://www.saraniedzwiecki.com/