Sara Watson
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
Publications
30
Citations
146
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
18
Publishing since 2008
Sara Watson studies how economic pressures, such as import competition and trade shocks, and political institutions shape welfare policy, labor market regulation, and electoral politics, with a focus on France and other advanced democracies. Her work combines political science methods with data on firms, legislators, and voters to examine how economic change translates into political and policy outcomes. She has also contributed to research reviewing the use of genetic data (polygenic scores) in studying social traits.
Publication output was modest and intermittent from 2017-2022 (often 0-1 per year) but increased somewhat in 2023-2025, averaging about 1.2 publications per year over the last five years.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Scanning the Horizon of Sociogenomics: An Assessment of the Development and Growth of Polygenic Scores for Social Traits
UNC Libraries · 2025
- The Effects of Import Shocks, Electoral Institutions, and Radical Party Competition on Legislator Ideology: Evidence from France
British Journal of Political Science · 2024
- Legislative behavior in the French Senate: A new dataset from the Fifth Republic
Party Politics · 2024
- Scanning the Horizon of Sociogenomics: An Assessment of the Development and Growth of Polygenic Scores for Social Traits <br>
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024
- Replication Data for: The Effects of Import Shocks, Electoral Institutions, and Radical Party Competition on Legislator Ideology: Evidence from France
Harvard Dataverse · 2023
- The Repoliticization of the Welfare State. By Ian McManus. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 2022. 234p. $80.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. - Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change: Democratic Linkage and Leadership under Pressure. By Staffan Kumlin and Achim Goerres. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 240p. $85.00 cloth.
Perspectives on Politics · 2023
- The tools of the trade
2019
- Firms and Social Protection: An Event Study
Comparative Political Studies · 2018
- Trade Shocks, Institutions, and Political Polarization: Evidence from France
24th International Conference of Europeanists · 2017
- Height, Income and Voting
British Journal of Political Science · 2016
- Privatizing Participation? The Impact of Private Welfare Provision on Democratic Accountability
Politics & Society · 2016
- Firms and Labor Market Regulation: Evidence from France
the 23rd International Conference of Europeanists · 2016
- 01_bhps_construction.do
Harvard Dataverse · 2016
- Replication Code for "Height, Income and Voting"
Harvard Dataverse · 2016
- Height_Paper_table_figures_replication.tex
Harvard Dataverse · 2016
- Harvard Dataverse×4
- British Journal of Political Science×2
- Party Politics×1
- Politics & Society×1
- Comparative Political Studies×1
- Stephen McBride
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Richard Günther
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Sarah M. Brooks
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Robin Stryker
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Ariel Azar
Health Professions · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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