Dr Alexandra Cirone, an expert on political economy and political selection, has been appointed as Assistant Professor at the LSE School of Public Policy (SPP).
The SPP is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Alexandra Cirone.
Alexandra "Ali" Cirone joins the SPP as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the LSE Department of Government. She also holds a research appointment at the BI Norwegian Business School and is a non-resident fellow in the Democratic Innovations Program at Yale University ISPS. She is one of the editors and co-founders of Broadstreet.blog, a blog on historical political economy.
Prior to joining the SPP, she was faculty in the Government Department at Cornell University, and also served as a faculty fellow and visiting professor at Yale University in AY 23-24.
Ali holds a PhD from Columbia University in New York, and an A.B. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. She was formerly a postdoc in the Department of Government, in the political economy group (PSPE). Prior to beginning graduate studies, she was the Research Manager for Harvard Kennedy School's Evidence for Policy Design (EPod).
Her research interests centre on political selection and institutional design in democracies, lottocratic governance and policy, and historical political economy. She combines quantitative and computational methods, historical data, and natural and/or quasi-experimental research designs with extensive archival research. Her recent work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, World Politics, Political Science Research and Methods, Journal of Historical Political Economy, and the Annual Review of Political Science.
Commenting on the appointment, Ali said: “I'm absolutely thrilled to join the LSE School of Public Policy and contribute to such a dynamic and influential research environment in both political science and economics. In particular, the SPP is committed to training future leaders in public policy, as well as producing impactful and rigorous research on salient policy challenges faced across the world, and I'm excited to work with its impressive faculty, staff, and students.”
Professor Andrés Velasco, Dean of the LSE School of Public Policy, celebrated her appointment: “We are delighted to welcome Dr Ali Cirone at the SPP. Ali has a stellar research record on many policy-relevant subjects, and long-standing participation on many important policy debates. She is therefore highly qualified to help train the policy and political leaders of tomorrow."
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