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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.

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)
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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.

'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'.

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.

'Missing, Biased and Unrepresentative: The quantitative analysis of multisource biographical data' (2002)
Journal Article
Cohen, G. (2002). 'Missing, Biased and Unrepresentative: The quantitative analysis of multisource biographical data'. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 35(4), 166-176

With the growth in interest in collective biography as a historical technique, many predominantly qualitative historians find themselves faced with large amounts of information. These data, collected from a variety of sources, are often highly irregu... Read More about 'Missing, Biased and Unrepresentative: The quantitative analysis of multisource biographical data'.

Stalin's Sausage Machine: British Students at the International Lenin School 1926-37 (2002)
Journal Article
Cohen, G., & Morgan, K. (2002). Stalin's Sausage Machine: British Students at the International Lenin School 1926-37. Twentieth Century British History, 13(4), 327-355. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/13.4.327

Between 1926 and 1937 at least 160 British communists attended the Communist International's International Lenin School (ILS) in Moscow. The aims of the school were to produce a new stratum of leading communist party cadres, young, proletarian, disci... Read More about Stalin's Sausage Machine: British Students at the International Lenin School 1926-37.