Programs
ISPS sponsors various programs on campus, all with the aim of supporting and enhancing interdisciplinary research in the social sciences at Yale.
ISPS Government Effectiveness Working Group
The ISPS Government Effectiveness Working Group is an interdisciplinary research group committed to exploring evidence-based approaches to tackle the economic and political challenges that America faces. We bring together scholars from across the social sciences and law to study how institutions...
American Political Economy eXchange
The American Political Economy Exchange (APEX) was founded in 2023 to spark research and thinking about American political economy at Yale. Housed within Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies, APEX is dedicated to the study of American democratic capitalism — the analysis of the...
Democratic Innovations
We live in an age of innovation and experimentation. The companies that dominated our economy just three decades ago have declined or collapsed, eclipsed by tech giants that have transformed how we work, shop, and communicate.
In contrast, our political institutions have remained very static. Many...
Center for the Study of Inequality
The ISPS Center for the Study of Inequality seeks to understand the causes and consequences of inequality in politics and public policy, with a particular focus on economic, racial, and gender inequalities. The center is co-directed by Allison P. Harris, assistant professor of political science...
ISPS Fellowships
ISPS supports four fellowship programs for Yale students. The fellowships are designed to prepare graduate and undergraduate students from across the disciplines to contribute to domestic policy discussions in the United States.
ISPS Graduate Policy Fellows
The Yale ISPS Policy Fellows Program...