Outputs (29)

Long-Run Trends in Partisan Polarization of Climate Policy-Relevant Attitudes Across Countries (2024)
Journal Article
Caldwell, D., Cohen, G., & Vivyan, N. (online). Long-Run Trends in Partisan Polarization of Climate Policy-Relevant Attitudes Across Countries. Environmental Politics, https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.2403957

We summarize long-run trends in partisan polarization of voters’ climate policy-relevant attitudes across 36 countries and multiple decades (1993–2020). We find substantial growth in partisan polarization of these attitudes in the US, other Anglophon... Read More about Long-Run Trends in Partisan Polarization of Climate Policy-Relevant Attitudes Across Countries.

Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–1914 (2024)
Journal Article
Blaxill, L., Cohen, G., Hutchison, G., Kuhn, P. M., & Vivyan, N. (online). Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–1914. Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae017

This article analyses over 19,000 articles from newspapers and parliamentary commission reports to reveal endemic electoral violence in England and Wales between 1832 and 1914. It offers a new understanding of the phenomenon in three main ways. First... Read More about Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–1914.

Advantages, Challenges and Limitations of Audit Experiments with Constituents (2021)
Journal Article
Bischof, D., Cohen, G., Cohen, S., Foos, F., Kuhn, P. M., Nanou, K., Visalvanich, N., & Vivyan, N. (2022). Advantages, Challenges and Limitations of Audit Experiments with Constituents. Political Studies Review, 20(2), 192-200. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299211037865

Audit experiments examining the responsiveness of public officials have become an increasingly popular tool used by political scientists. While these studies have brought significant insight into how public officials respond to different types of con... Read More about Advantages, Challenges and Limitations of Audit Experiments with Constituents.

Depolarization, Repolarization and Redistributive Ideological Change in Britain, 1983-2016 (2019)
Journal Article
Cohen, G., & Cohen, S. (2021). Depolarization, Repolarization and Redistributive Ideological Change in Britain, 1983-2016. British Journal of Political Science, 51(3), 1181-1202. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123419000486

In this article we examine party sorting, elite cue and ideological polarization ac- counts of polarization dynamics. We test their diering expectations about trends in redistributive ideological polarization and partisan polarization in the British... Read More about Depolarization, Repolarization and Redistributive Ideological Change in Britain, 1983-2016.

An Evaluation of Hogaan iyo Nabad: A Community Driven Governance Programme in Somalia/Somaliland (2015)
Report
Bakonyi, J., Cohen, G., & Bedard, P. (2015). An Evaluation of Hogaan iyo Nabad: A Community Driven Governance Programme in Somalia/Somaliland. [No known commissioning body]

The report presents the results of an evaluation of Hogaan iyo Nabad, a Community Driven Reconstruction (CDR) programme in Somaliland and Somalia.The programme was funded by DFID and implemented by CARE, DRC and IRC, and aimed at strengthening local... Read More about An Evaluation of Hogaan iyo Nabad: A Community Driven Governance Programme in Somalia/Somaliland.

For a Life beyond Governing Persons: Alternative Reflections on Political Life History in Britain (and Beyond) (2013)
Journal Article
Cohen, G., & Morgan, K. (2015). For a Life beyond Governing Persons: Alternative Reflections on Political Life History in Britain (and Beyond). Political Studies Review, 13(4), 506-509. https://doi.org/10.1111/1478-9302.12033

R.A.W. Rhodes is to be applauded for restating the case for life history methods within the field of political studies, and many of his arguments will be found unexceptionable by those actively working with such methods. Ironically, in his recent con... Read More about For a Life beyond Governing Persons: Alternative Reflections on Political Life History in Britain (and Beyond).

Grassroots Conservatism in Post-War Britain: A view from the bottom up (2013)
Journal Article
Cohen, G., & Mates, L. (2013). Grassroots Conservatism in Post-War Britain: A view from the bottom up. History, 98(330), 202-225. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229x.12004

It is well known the membership of British Conservative Party in the 1950s dwarfed that of other parties, but despite this there has been very little examination of the party's grassroots in this crucial period. What literature there is comes predomi... Read More about Grassroots Conservatism in Post-War Britain: A view from the bottom up.

Capture-Recapture Methods and Party Activism in Britain (2012)
Journal Article
Cohen, G., Mates, L., & Flinn, A. (2012). Capture-Recapture Methods and Party Activism in Britain. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 43(2), 247-274. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_00381

Capture-recapture methods are of general interest because they can be applied to conventional historical sources to address otherwise intractable questions about the size and dynamics of historical populations. When employed to assess alternative exp... Read More about Capture-Recapture Methods and Party Activism in Britain.

Political Religion and British Communism. (2010)
Journal Article
Cohen, G. (2010). Political Religion and British Communism. Twentieth Century Communism, 2, 197-214

Myth, History and the Independent Labour Party. (2009)
Book Chapter
Cohen, G. (2009). Myth, History and the Independent Labour Party. In M. Worley (Ed.), The foundations of the British Labour Party: Identities, Cultures and Perspectives, 1900-39 (95-112). Ashgate Publishing