Publications
About Our Publications
On this page you will find a list of publications by ISPS Affiliates, including peer-reviewed journal articles, policy briefs, and working papers.
When possible, Publications are linked to Projects and Data via the ISPS KnowledgeBase.
| Title | Author(s) |
Discipline |
Publication | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Persuasive Effects of Direct Mail: A Regression Discontinuity Based Approach |
Gerber, Alan S., Daniel P. Kessler and Marc Meredith |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2011 |
| Democracy, the Market, and the Logic of Social Choice |
Samuel DeCanio |
Political Science | American Journal of Political Science | 2014 |
| Why People Vote: Estimating the Social Returns to Voting |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty and Conor M. Dowling |
Political Science | British Journal of Political Science | 2016 |
| Randomness Reconsidered: Modeling Random Judicial Assignment in the U.S. Courts of Appeals |
Matthew Hall |
Political Science | Journal of Empirical Legal Studies | 2010 |
| Why Vote with the Chief? Political Connections and Public Goods Provision in Zambia |
Kate Baldwin |
Political Science | American Journal of Political Science | 2014 |
| Which Elections Can Be Lost? |
Susan D. Hyde and Nikolay Marinov |
Political Science | Political Analysis | 2012 |
| Can Racial Diversity among Judges Affect Sentencing Outcomes? |
Allison Harris |
Political Science | American Political Science Review | 2023 |
| The Generalizability of Social Pressure Effects on Turnout Across High-Salience Electoral Contexts |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang, Andrew Gooch |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2017 |
| The Observer Effect in International Politics: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
Susan D. Hyde |
Political Science | World Politics | 2007 |
| Big Five Personality Traits and Responses to Persuasive Appeals: Results from Voter Turnout Experiments |
Alan S., Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Costas Panagopoulos |
Political Science | Political Behavior | 2012 |
| Recent Advances in the Science of Voter Mobilization |
Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber |
Political Science | Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science | 2005 |
| When Does Increasing Mobilization Effort Increase Turnout? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Reminder Calls |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang, and Catlan E. Reardon |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2020 |
| The Primacy of Race in the Geography of Income-Based Voting: New Evidence from Public Voting Records |
Eitan D. Hersh and Clayton Nall |
Political Science | American Journal of Political Science | 2015 |
| Were Newspapers More Interested in pro-Obama Letters to the Editor in 2008? Evidence from a Field Experiment |
Daniel M. Butler, Emily Schofield |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2010 |
| Do Community-Based Mobilization Campaigns Work Even in Battleground States? Evaluating the Effectiveness of MoveOn 2004 Outreach Campaign |
Joel A. Middleton, Donald P. Green |
Political Science | Quarterly Journal of Political Science | 2008 |
| Control without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments |
Christina Kinane |
Political Science | American Political Science Review | 2021 |
| Out of Balance: Medicare, Interest Groups, and American Politics |
Jacob S. Hacker |
Political Science | Generations | 2015 |
| Which Narrative Strategies Durably Reduce Prejudice? Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments Supporting the Efficacy of Perspective-Getting |
Joshua L. Kalla, David E. Broockman |
Political Science | American Journal of Political Science | 2021 |
| The Dynamic Relationship between Personality Stability and Political Attitudes |
Joshua Boston, Jonathan Homola, Betsy Sinclair, Michelle Torres, Patrick D. Tucker |
Political Science | Perspectives on Politics | 2018 |
| Introduction to Social Pressure and Voting: New Experimental Evidence |
Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber |
Political Science | Political Behavior | 2010 |
ISPS Working Paper Series
ISPS advances interdisciplinary research in the social sciences that aims to shape public policy and inform democratic deliberation. The ISPS network includes scholars and students from many departments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and from Yale’s graduate and professional schools as well as select experts from other institutions. The ISPS Working Paper Series provides a platform for ISPS affiliates to make their work available for public consumption and discussion.
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GOTV website: A website compiling results from a wide array of voter mobilization field experiments. Findings from these scientifically measured studies of various Get-Out-the-Vote methods offer valuable insight into which methods are most effective in mobilizing voter turnout (Note: the website indexes GOTV experiments published before 2006).
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