[1] In 2000, Wood published her first book, Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador.
In this book, Wood uses micro-level ethnographic data obtained from fieldwork in the two cases of El Salvador and South Africa to argue that the process of democratization can be prompted by alliances of workers and impoverished people who confront established elites.
[3] In Forcing Democracy from Below, Wood studies the conditions in which this sort of democratization process can be successful.
[3] Wood's second book, Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador, was published in 2003.
[1] In addition to publications in journals like Politics and Society,[5] The Journal of Peace Research,[6] and Comparative Political Studies[7] on topics like democratization in El Salvador, sexual assault in the military, and sexual violence by armed forces, she has authored a number of public policy pieces in the popular media.