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
The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling

Political Science Annual Review of Political Science 2011
Economic Behavior and the Partisan Perceptual Screen

Mary C. McGrath

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2017
The Interplay of Ideological Diversity, Dissents, and Discretionary Review in the Judicial Hierarchy: Evidence from Death Penalty Cases

Deborah Beim and Jonathan P. Kastellec

Political Science Journal of Politics 2014
A Drag on the Ticket? Estimating Top-of-the-Ticket Effects on Down-Ballot Races

Kevin DeLuca, Daniel J. Moskowitz, and Benjamin Schneer

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2025
Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk

Adam J. Berinsky, Gregory A. Huber, Gabriel S. Lenz

Political Science Political Analysis 2012
Gender Composition Predicts Gender Bias: A Meta-reanalysis of Hiring Discrimination Audit Experiments

Diana Roxana Galos and Alexander Coppock

Political Science Science Advances 2023
Empirical Explanation in Political Science: The Case of Interest Groups

Joseph LaPalombara

Political Science Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche 2017
Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States.

Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science American Political Science Review 2004
Getting out the Vote in Local Elections: Results from Six Door-to-Door Experiments

Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber, David W. Nickerson

Political Science Journal of Politics 2003
Partisan Mail and Voter Turnout: Results from Randomized Field Experiments

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

Political Science Electoral Studies 2003
The Meaning of the 2012 Elections

David Mayhew

Political Science 2013
Reviewing Procedure versus Judging Substance: How Increasing Bureaucratic Oversight Can Reduce Bureaucratic Accountability

Ian R. Turner

Political Science Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 2022
Self-Awareness of Political Knowledge

Matthew Graham

          
Political Science Political Behavior 2018
Experimental Research on Democracy and Development

Ana L. De La O, Leonard Wantchekon

Political Science 2010
Does Regression Produce Representative Estimates of Causal Effects?

Peter M. Aronow and Cyrus Samii

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2015
Personal Income and Attitudes toward Redistribution: A Study of Lottery Winners

Daniel J. Doherty, Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green

Political Science Political Psychology 2006
Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre

David R. Mayhew

Political Science 2004
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
Targeted Abortion Frames Do Not Mobilize Political Action-Taking

Natalie Hernandez, Nicholas Ottone, and Joshua Kalla

Political Science American Politics Research 2025
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

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

Featured Books by ISPS Faculty

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.