Professor Dr. Alexandra Cirone

Biography

Alexandra "Ali" Cirone is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She also holds a research appointment at BI Norwegian Business School and is a non-resident fellow at the Democratic Innovations Program at Yale University. Cirone's research interests primarily focus on political selection, institutional design in democracies, lottocratic governance policy, and historical political economy. Her work combines quantitative computational methods with historical data, employing natural and/or quasi-experimental research designs alongside extensive archival research. She has published extensively in leading journals, including the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, and World Politics, contributing significantly to the fields of political economy and democratic institutions. Cirone is also involved in editing and co-founding Broadstreet.blog, which centers around historical political economy.

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