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 Yearsort ascending
Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint

Jack B. Greenberg and John A. Dearborn

Political Science Book chapter 2025
The Impacts of Climate Activism

Laura Thomas-Walters, Eric G. Scheuch, Abby Ong, and Matthew H. Goldberg

Political Science Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 2025
Local Government Expenditure Centralization and Spatial Variation in Working-Age Mortality

Rourke O’Brien, Manuel Schechtl, Robert Manduca, and Atheendar Venkataramani

Sociology Social Science & Medicine - Population Health 2025
Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools

Varun Magesh, Faiz Surani, Matthew Dahl, Mirac Suzgun, Christopher D. Manning, and https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jels.12413Daniel E. Ho

Law Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 2025
Demand- and Supply-Side Factors in Government’s Performance as a Problem-Solving Institution

Alan S. Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
Incidence of Frailty, Dementia, and Disability Among Community-Living Older Americans According to County-Level Disadvantage

Yi Wang, Emma X. Zang, Kendra Davis-Plourde, Brent Vander Wyk, Thomas M. Gill, and Robert D. Becher

Medicine Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2025
Problem-solving Criminal Justice

Steven Teles

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
The Effects of Party Cues Are Not the Effects of Partisanship

Alexander Coppock

Political Science Political Science Quarterly 2025
Why Masses Support Democratic Backsliding

Noam Gidron, Yotam Margalit, Lior Sheffer, and Itamar Yakir

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2025
Reflections on Government Success and Failure

Lawrence Rothenberg

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
Targeted Abortion Frames Do Not Mobilize Political Action-Taking

Natalie Hernandez, Nicholas Ottone, and Joshua Kalla

Political Science American Politics Research 2025
Novel Indices of State- and County-Level Social Disadvantage in Older Americans and Disparities in Mortality

Yi Wang, Emma X. Zang, Kendra Davis-Plourde, Thomas M. Gill, and Robert Becher

Public Health Health and Place 2025
America’s New Racial Battle Lines. By Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King

Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science Perspectives on Politics 2025
Good Clinical Ethics Requires Access to Diverse Community Perspectives

Lorie Bruce and Carol L. Powers

Bioethics American Journal of Bioethics 2025
Explaining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning: A Decomposition Analysis

Yifan Lou, Emma Zang, and Qianqian Li

Public Health Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2025
Listen for a Change? A Longitudinal Field Experiment on Listening’s Potential to Enhance Persuasion

Erik Santoro, David E. Broockman, Joshua L. Kalla, and Roni Porat

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2025
Are Democracies Better at Solving Problems than Non-Democratic Regimes?

Bryan D. Jones

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
The Politics of Problem Solving: Housing, Pensions, and the Organization of Interests

Sarah F. Anzia

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
Heuristic Agenda Closure in Administrative Government

Daniel Carpenter

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
Congress as Problem Solver: Building Consensus Despite Polarization

James M. Curry and Frances E. Lee

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025

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.

ISPS Working Paper Series

ISPS Sponsored Publications

ISPS Politics & Policy Book Series: A series striving to place policy- and law-making in historical and comparative perspective, reflecting the broad, multidisciplinary character of ISPS.

ISPS journals

ISPS Journal: A biannual publication that serves to highlight ISPS scholars’ publications and as a development piece for foundations and interested donors.

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).

The Bulletin of Yale University includes several issues devoted to ISPS (PDF): 2000-2002, 2002-2004, 2004-2006, and 2006-2008.