A nation must think before it acts.
Sarah Wilson Sokhey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Colorado, a Faculty Associate at the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado, and an Associate Fellow at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. She is a member of the PONARS Eurasia group, a network of over 100 academic experts specializing in Russia and Eurasia. Her recent book—The Political Economy of Pension Policy Reversal in Post-Communist Countries (Cambridge University Press, 2017)—examines the global trend in the reversal of a radical pension policy using survival analysis, survey data, and case studies of the Russian, Polish, and Hungarian experiences.