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Books

• Arza, Camila, Rossana Castiglioni, Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Sara Niedzwiecki, Jennifer Pribble, & Diego Sánchez-Ancochea (2022) The Political Economy of Segmented Expansion: Latin American Social Policy in the 2000s. Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 

                           Published in Spanish: 2024, Cambridge University Press
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• Niedzwiecki, Sara (2018). Uneven Social Policies: The Politics of Subnational Variation in Latin America, New York: Cambridge University Press (2020 Paperback)​ 

​​                            Donna Lee Van Cott Award for the best book on Latin American Politics and Institutions, LASA
                           IPPA Public Policy and/or Public Administration Best Book Award, International Conference on Public                                     Policy (ICPP)
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• Hooghe, Liesbet, Gary Marks, Arjan H. Schakel, Sara Niedzwiecki, Sandra Chapman Osterkatz, Sarah Shair-Rosenfield (2016). Measuring Regional Authority: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance,Vol.I, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

 
​Refereed Articles

• Niedzwiecki, Sara and Jennifer Pribble. (2023) "Social Policy Expansion and Retrenchment in Latin America: Causal Paths to Successful Reform." Journal of Social Policy (Published Online First) 

 

• Giraudy, Agustina and Sara Niedzwiecki. "Multi-level governance and subnational research: Similarities, differences, and knowledge accumulation in the study of territorial politics." Regional & Federal Studies, 2021.​

 

• Shair-Rosenfield, Sarah, Arjan H. Schakel, Sara Niedzwiecki, Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe, and Sandra Chapman-Osterkatz. “Language Difference and Regional Authority.” Regional & Federal Studies, 2020.

 

• ​Niedzwiecki, Sara and Santiago Anria. "Participatory Social Policies: Diverging Patterns in Brazil and Bolivia". Latin American Politics and Society (61, no. 2, 115-137), 2019.

 

• Niedzwiecki, Sara, Sandra Chapman, Liesbet Hooghe, and Gary Marks. "The RAI travels to Latin America: Measuring regional authority under regime change." Regional & Federal Studies (31, no. 2, 235-260), 2018

 

• Freytes, Carlos and Sara Niedzwiecki. "Argentina 2017: la dinámica intertemporal de la reestructuración económica." Revista de Ciencia Política (38, no.2,125-158), 2018

 

• Huber, Evelyne and Sara Niedzwiecki. "Changing Systems of Social Protection in the Context of the Changing Political Economies since the 1980s." Ciência & Saúde Coletiva (23, no.7, 2085–2094), 2018

 

• Schakel, Arjan, Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Sara Niedzwiecki, Sandra Chapman and Sarah Shair-Rosenfield."Virtues and pitfalls of subnational comparison" Territory, Politics, Governance, 2018

 

• Stoyan, Alissandra and Sara Niedzwiecki. "Decentralization and democratic participation: The effect of subnational self-rule on voting in Latin America and the Caribbean" Electoral Studies (52, 26-35), 2018

 

• Niedzwiecki, Sara and Jennifer Pribble. "Social Policies and Center-Right Governments in Argentina and Chile"  Latin American Politics and Society (59 no. 3, 72-97, 2017

 

• Niedzwiecki, Sara and David Nunnally. "Mixed-Methods Research in the Study of Welfare States" PS: Political Science and Politics (October, 1028-1031), 2017

 

• Niedzwiecki, Sara. "Social Policies, Attribution of Responsibility, and Political Alignments. A Subnational Analysis of Argentina and Brazil" Comparative Political Studies (49 no.4, 457-498), 2016

 

• Anria, Santiago and Sara Niedzwiecki. "Social Movements and Social Policy: The Bolivian Renta Dignidad" Studies in Comparative International Development (51 no.3, 308-327), 2016

 

• Stoyan, Alissandra, Sara Niedzwiecki, Jana Morgan, Jonathan Hartlyn, and Rosario Espinal. "Trust in Government Institutions: The Effects of Performance and Participation in the Dominican Republic and Haiti" International Political Science Review (37 no.1, 18-35), 2016  

 

• Niedzwiecki, Sara. "Social Policy Commitment in South America. The Effect of Organized Labor on Social Spending from 1980 to 2010" Journal of Politics in Latin America (7, no. 2, 3-43), 2015.

 

• Niedzwiecki, Sara. "The Effect of Organized Civil Society on Social Policy Reform. Pension and Health Reforms in Argentina and Brazil (1988-2008)" Latin American Politics and Society, (56, no. 4, 22-48) 2014

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• Huber, Eveyne and Sara Niedzwiecki. “Emerging Welfare States in Latin America and East Asia” with Evelyne Huber In Stephan Leibfried et.al. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State, 2015
• Niedzwiecki, Sara and Jennifer Pribble. “Social Policy and State Capacity from a Subnational Perspective” In K.
  Baehler, D. Besharov, and N. Gilbert (Eds.), The Oxford International Handbook of Governance and Management for Social Policy, 2023

Other Publications

• Giraudy, Agustina, Sara Niedzwiecki, and Jennifer Pribble. How Political Science Explains Countries’ Reactions to COVID-19. Americas Quarterly, 2020
• Niedzwiecki, Sara. Book Review of When Democracies Deliver: Governance Reform in Latin America. By Katherine Bersch and  Movement-Driven Development: The Politics of Health and Democracy in Brazil. By Christopher L. Gibson Perspectives on Politics, 2020
• Niedzwiecki, Sara. Book Review of ¿Un imán de bienestar en el sur? Migración y política social en Costa Rica? by Koen Voorend. In Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, Universidad de Costa Rica 45, pp. 709-712, 2019
• Freytes, Carlos and Sara Niedzwiecki. "A turning point in argentine politics: demands for change and territorial cleavages in the 2015 presidential election"  Regional and Federal Studies, 2016
• Book review of Crafting Policies to End Poverty in Latin America: The Quiet Transformation by Ana Lorena De La O Latin American Politics and Society, 2016
• Niedzwiecki, Sara. "Social Policy's Attribution of Responsibility: Challenges for Argentina and Brazil" Panoramas, April 2016.
• Niedzwiecki, Sara. "When Can Governments make Structural Reforms to their Health and Pension Systems?" Panoramas, December 2014
• Niedzwiecki, Sara and Evelyne Huber. “Soziale Sicherungssysteme in Lateinamerika und Ostasien: Hin zu einer universellen Grundsicherung?”  Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart (59, no. 2, 255-274), 2013
• Book review of Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America by James McGuire. Critical Reviews on Latin American Research (Vol. 3, p. 63), 2013

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