a.e.cirone@lse.ac.uk

My surname is pronounced “Sir-Own-ee” (rhymes with macaroni). I usually go by “Ali.” She/hers.

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I am an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics, jointly appointed in the School of Public Policy (SPP) and the Government department. I am also co-Director of the Executive MPA/MPP program.

I currently serve on Meta's Governance Innovation Council, and have been an advisor for Meta's Community Forums. I'm also a member of Stanford DDL's Deliberation & Technology Research Group, as well as a non-resident fellow at Yale University ISPS Democratic Innovations program.

My research interests center on lottocratic governance and policy, historical political economy, digital deliberative democracy, and European politics. I combine quantitative and computational methods, historical data, and natural and/or quasi-experimental research designs with extensive archival research. I have also published work on causal inference, data collection, and digitization for historical data.

My 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, the Annual Review of Political Science, and Cambridge University Press.

My work has won the 2022 APSA Jack Walker Best Journal Article Award, and received an honorable mention for the 2020 APSA Mary Parker Follett prize for best article in Politics and History.

I'm also part of the Norwegian Research Council grant "Dynamics of Political Selection,” with Jon Fiva, Rune Sorensen, Gary Cox, Dawn Teele, and Dan Smith, where we are studying how seniority systems affect gender representation in politics. As a co-PI on this grant, I also hold an appointment in the BI Norwegian Business School.

I am one of the editors of Broadstreet.blog, a blog on historical political economy.

I hold a PhD from Columbia University in New York, and an A.B. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. I was formerly faculty in the Government Department at Cornell University. Prior to beginning graduate studies, I was the Research Manager for Harvard Kennedy School's Evidence for Policy Design (EPod). For academic year 23-24, I was also on leave as a Faculty Fellow in the Yale ISPS Democratic Innovations Program, and visiting assistant professor in the Yale Political Science Department.