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Latest Research from Centre Affiliates and Visiting Fellows


Read the latest research from the US Centre's Affiliates and Visiting Fellows

Latest research 

New Journal article: Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923 - Johann Koehler

Criminology Journal Cover June 2023

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.

New App: Geopolitical Threat Index - Kohei Watanabe

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 Times articles on the military.

Access the Geopolitical Threat Index.

New Journal Issue: Single-Parent Families and Public Policy - Amanda Sheely

 

Annals Single-Parent families

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.

 

New Book: England's Cross of Gold - James Morrison

 

England's Cross of Golf cover

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.

 


 

 

 

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