She has been a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Her main research interest concerns the comparative, quantitative analysis of the emergence and development of social policy around the globe. She has published in journals such as World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and the Journal of Public Policy. She has also published a book on The Political Economy of Privatization in Rich Democracies which is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. More information can be found at her website and on her Google scholar profile.