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) Disciplinesort descending Publication Year
Does It Matter Who’s Behind the Curtain? Anonymity in Political Advertising and the Effects of Campaign Finance Disclosure

Conor M. Dowling and Amber Wichowsky

Political Science American Politics Research 2013
How Issue Positions Affect Candidate Performance: Experiments Comparing Campaign Donors and the Mass Public

Andrew Gooch and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Political Behavior 2020
Nongovernmental Campaign Communication Providing Ballot Secrecy Assurances Increases Turnout: Results From Two Large-Scale Experiments

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang and Andrew Gooch

Political Science Political Science Research and Methods 2017
How Experiments Help Campaigns Persuade Voters: Evidence from a Large Archive of Campaigns’ Own Experiments

Luke Hewitt, David Broockman, Alexander Coppock, Ben M. Tappin, James Slezak, Valerie Coffman, Nathaniel Lubin, and Mohammed Hamidian

Political Science American Political Science Review 2024
Does Knowledge of Constitutional Principles Increase Support for Civil Liberties? Results from a Randomized Field Experiment

Donald P. Green, Peter M. Aronow, Daniel E. Bergan, Pamela Greene, Celia Paris and Beth I. Weinberger

Political Science Journal of Politics 2011
Can the Political Ambition of Young Women Be Increased? Evidence from U.S. High School Students

Joshua Kalla and Ethan Porter

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2022
Field Experimental Designs for the Study of Media Effects

Donald P. Green, Brian R. Calfano & Peter M. Aronow

Political Science Political Communication 2014
Are Financial or Moral Scandals Worse? It Depends

David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling and Michael G. Miller

Political Science PS: Political Science & Politics 2011
No Justice, No Peace: Political Science Perspectives on the American Carceral State

Allison P. Harris, Hannah L. Walker and Laurel Eckhouse

Political Science Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 2020
Who Gets the Credit? Legislative Responsiveness and Evaluations of Members, Parties, and the US Congress

Daniel M. Butler, Christopher F. Karpowitz, Jeremy C. Pope

Political Science Political Science Research and Methods 2018
Fiscal Pressures and Discriminatory Policing: Evidence from Traffic Stops in Missouri

Allison P. Harris, Elliott Ash, and Jeffrey Fagan

Political Science Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 2020
Ideas, Private Institutions, and American Welfare State ‘Exceptionalism'

Daniel Béland , Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science International Journal of Social Welfare 2004
Tracking Opinion Over Time - A Method for Reducing Sampling Error

 Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber, SL De Boef, SL

Political Science Public Opinion Quarterly 1999
Partisan Mail and Voter Turnout: Results from Randomized Field Experiments

Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green, Matthew Green

Political Science Electoral Studies 2003
Emails from Official Sources Can Increase Turnout

Neil Malhotra, Melissa R. Michelson, Ali Adam Valenzuela

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2012
Do Bilinguals Respond More Favorably to Candidate Advertisements in English or in Spanish?

Alejandro Flores and Alexander Coppock

Political Science Political Communication 2018
The Negative Consequences of Informing Voters about Deepfakes: Evidence from Two Survey Experiments

John Ternovski, Joshua Kalla, P M Aronow

Political Science Journal of Online Trust and Safety 2022
Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes

Holger Lutz Kern, Jens Hainmueller

Political Science Political Analysis 2009
Robert A. Dahl: Questions, Concepts, Proving it

David R. Mayhew

Political Science Journal of Political Power 2015
Putting the Party Back into Politics: An Experiment Testing Whether Election Day Festivals Increase Voter Turnout

Elizabeth Addonizio, Donald P. Green, James M. Glaser

Political Science PS: Political Science & Politics 2007

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

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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.

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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.