In 2000, Wolbrecht published ''The Politics of Women's Rights: Parties, Positions, and Change''. The book studies why there was a major
party issue realignment in the United States from 1952 to 1992, with the two major parties both changing their positions related to
women's rights. Wolbrecht attributes the parties' positions to forces which relate to the issue itself, the party coalitions around that issue, and the position of party
elites on the issue, and details how these changed with respect to women's rights in America during the second half of the 20th century. which "recognizes a book published in the last two calendar years that made an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties". Wolbrecht published her second book in 2017: ''Counting Women's Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage through the New Deal'', coauthored with J. Kevin Corder. The book studies women's vote choice and turnout during the US presidential elections between 1920 and 1936. Wolbrecht and Corder address the difficulty of determining the impact of American women's votes after women's suffrage was enacted using
ecological inference to fill in information about vote choice and turnout that is not available through survey data alone. They demonstrate that, contrary to past analyses, voter turnout was not substantially reduced by women's suffrage, and that while women bolstered the success of the
Republican Party immediately after suffrage, by the time of the
New Deal many women had switched to the
Democratic Party.
Vox, and
Newsweek. She has discussed the history of women's voting behavior in the US on
C-SPAN, and been quoted in outlets like
Teen Vogue,
Politico, and
The Michigan Daily. ==Selected works==