Latest Research from Centre Affiliates and Visiting Fellows
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Latest research
Centre Affiliate, Assistant Professor Johann Koehler (LSE Department of Sociology) has published the article Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923 in the July 2023 issue of Criminology.
The research was supported by the Phelan US Centre and by the Undergraduate Research Assistant, Vaneeza Jawad, who Dr Koehler thanks for their assistance.
US Centre Visiting Fellow, Kohei Watanabe (Waseda University), has created an online app that allows users to compute, visualize and download a Geopolitical Threat Index (GTI) identifies foreign threats between 1981 and 2022 through an analysis of New York Timesarticles on the military.
To push the debate on single-parent families and public policy forward, in the July 2022 special issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Centre Affiliate Associate Professor Amanda Sheely (Department of Social Policy) and other researchers from the US and other high-income countries examined a range of policy options available to improve the economic wellbeing of these vulnerable families.
Read the special issue, Single-Parent Families and Public Policy: Evidence from High-Income Countries.
The special issue was launched on 1 December 2022 with an online event hosted by the Brookings Institution.
Read more about Dr Amanda Sheely's work, supported by thr Phelan US Centre.
In England's Cross of Gold Keynes, Churchill and the Governance of Economic Beliefs (Cornell University Press, 2021), Centre Affiliate, Associate Professor James Morrison (LSE Department of International Relations), challenges the conventional view that the UK's ruinous return to gold in 1925 was inevitable.
James Morrison was supported in the research for this book by the Phelan US Centre Undergraduate Research Assistants Katherine Bennett, Anna Cooper, and Maitrai Lapalikar.
More information about England's Cross of Gold.
Listen to a US Centre Ballpark podcast interview with James Morrison on England's Cross of Gold