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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.

Representative misconduct, voter perceptions and accountability: Evidence from the 2009 House of Commons expenses scandal (2012)
Journal Article
Vivyan, N., Wagner, M., & Tarlov, J. (2012). Representative misconduct, voter perceptions and accountability: Evidence from the 2009 House of Commons expenses scandal. Electoral Studies, 31(4), 750-763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2012.06.010

This paper examines electoral accountability after the 2009–10 UK expenses scandal. Existing research shows that Members of Parliament (MPs) implicated in the scandal fared only marginally worse in the election than non-implicated colleagues. This la... Read More about Representative misconduct, voter perceptions and accountability: Evidence from the 2009 House of Commons expenses scandal.

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.

Do voters reward rebellion? The electoral accountability of MPs in Britain (2012)
Journal Article
Vivyan, N., & Wagner, M. (2012). Do voters reward rebellion? The electoral accountability of MPs in Britain. European Journal of Political Research, 51(2), 235-264. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2011.01998.x

To hold their Members of Parliament individually accountable for their legislative behaviour, British voters would need to base their decision to vote for an MP at least partially on the extent to which the MP's legislative voting behaviour deviated... Read More about Do voters reward rebellion? The electoral accountability of MPs in Britain.

From doves to hawks: A spatial analysis of voting in the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England (2010)
Journal Article
Hix, S., Høyland, B., & Vivyan, N. (2010). From doves to hawks: A spatial analysis of voting in the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. European Journal of Political Research, 49(6), 731-758. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2010.01916.x

This article examines the making of monetary policy in the United Kingdom between 1997 and 2008 by analysing voting behaviour in the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). It provides a new set of measures for the monetary policy preferen... Read More about From doves to hawks: A spatial analysis of voting in the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England.

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

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.

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

'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.