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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., …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

Political Culture and the Post-War Labour Party: Values, Practices and Activism in South Lewisham Labour Party, 1948-71 (2008)
Journal Article
Cohen, G., Flinn, A., & Mates, L. (2008). Political Culture and the Post-War Labour Party: Values, Practices and Activism in South Lewisham Labour Party, 1948-71. Socialist History, 32, 59-83

'Towards a Mixed Method Social History: Combining Quantatitve and Qualitative Methods in the Study of Collective Biography'. (2008)
Book Chapter
Cohen, G., Flinn, A., & Morgan, K. (2008). 'Towards a Mixed Method Social History: Combining Quantatitve and Qualitative Methods in the Study of Collective Biography'. In K. Keats-Roahn (Ed.), A Guide to Prosopography

The Failure of a Dream: The Independent Labour Party from disaffiliation to World War II (2006)
Book
Cohen, G. (2006). The Failure of a Dream: The Independent Labour Party from disaffiliation to World War II. I.B. Tauris

The Independent Labour Party began the 1930s as a significant force in dispute with the Labour Party proper. In 1932, as these conflicts led to a split, the party had more MPs in Scotland than the larger organisation and a membership five times that... Read More about The Failure of a Dream: The Independent Labour Party from disaffiliation to World War II.

'Happy Hunting Ground of the Crank'? The Independent Labour Party and Local Labour Politics in Glasgow and Norwich, 1932-45 (2005)
Book Chapter
Cohen, G. (2005). 'Happy Hunting Ground of the Crank'? The Independent Labour Party and Local Labour Politics in Glasgow and Norwich, 1932-45. In M. Worley (Ed.), Labour's Grass Roots: Essays on the activities of Local Labour Parties and Members, 1918-45 (54-78). Ashgate Publishing

Locating the Typical British Communist (2005)
Book Chapter
Cohen, G., & Flinn, A. (2005). Locating the Typical British Communist. In K. Morgan, G. Cohen, & A. Flinn (Eds.), Agents of the Revolution: new biographical approaches to the history of international communism in the age of Lenin and Stalin. Peter Lang

Agents of the Revolution: new biographical approaches to the history of International Communism in the age of Lenin and Stalin (2005)
Book
Morgan, K., Cohen, G., & Flinn, A. (Eds.). (2005). Agents of the Revolution: new biographical approaches to the history of International Communism in the age of Lenin and Stalin. Peter Lang

'Propensity-Score Methods and the Lenin School' (2005)
Journal Article
Cohen, G. (2005). 'Propensity-Score Methods and the Lenin School'. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 36(2), 209-232. https://doi.org/10.1162/0022195054741262

Although social scientists often use propensity-score methods to study databases that contain substantial amounts of bias and missing information, these techniques have not been applied in the historical literature. This article uses propensity-score... Read More about 'Propensity-Score Methods and the Lenin School'.

Communists and British Society 1920-1991: People of a Special Mould (2005)
Book
Morgan, K., Cohen, G., & Flinn, A. (2005). Communists and British Society 1920-1991: People of a Special Mould. River Oram Press

The revolutionary appeal of Communism in 20th-century Britain is analyzed in this examination of why Communist Party members joined, how they participated in the party's activities, and why, in many cases, they left the party. Archival resources, hun... Read More about Communists and British Society 1920-1991: People of a Special Mould.

The Abyssinian Crisis, British labour and the fracturing of the anti-war movement (2005)
Journal Article
Flinn, A., & Cohen, G. (2005). The Abyssinian Crisis, British labour and the fracturing of the anti-war movement. Socialist History, 28, 37-59

National politicians and local political parties: Herbert Morrison and the South Lewisham Labour Party (2005)
Journal Article
Flinn, A., Cohen, G., & Mates, L. (2005). National politicians and local political parties: Herbert Morrison and the South Lewisham Labour Party

British Students at the International Lenin School 1926-37: A reaffirmation of methods results and conclusions (2004)
Journal Article
Cohen, G., & Morgan, K. (2004). British Students at the International Lenin School 1926-37: A reaffirmation of methods results and conclusions. Twentieth Century British History, 15(1), 77-107. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/15.1.77

Alan Campbell, John McIlroy, Barry McLoughlin, and John Halstead have offered a sweeping, if incoherent, criticism of the research presented in ‘Stalin's Sausage Machine’, our recent article on British students at the International Lenin School. By e... Read More about British Students at the International Lenin School 1926-37: A reaffirmation of methods results and conclusions.

Tom Stephenson (2003)
Book Chapter
Gildart, K., & Cohen, G. (2003). Tom Stephenson. In K. Gildart, D. Howell, & N. Kirk (Eds.), Dictionary of Labour Biography. Palgrave Macmillan