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
Widespread Partisan Gerrymandering Mostly Cancels Nationally, But Reduces Electoral Competition

Christopher T. Kennya, Cory McCartan, Tyler Simkoa, Shiro Kuriwaki, and Kosuke Imai

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2023
Mobilizing African-Americans using Direct Mail and Commercial Phone Banks: A Field Experiment.

Donald P. Green

Political Science Political Research Quarterly 2004
A Discussion of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time By Ira Katznelson

David R. Mayhew

Political Science Perspectives on Politics 2014
Voter Mobilization, Experimentation, and Translational Social Science

Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber

Political Science Perspectives on Politics 2016
Using Experiments to Estimate the Effects of Education on Voter Turnout

Rachel Milstein Sondheimer, Donald P. Green

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2010
Reflections on Government Success and Failure

Lawrence Rothenberg

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
Identifying the Persuasive Effects of Presidential Advertising

Gregory A. Huber, Kevin Arceneaux

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2007
Does Corruption Information Inspire the Fight or Quash the Hope? A Field Experiment in Mexico on Voter Turnout, Choice, and Party Identification

Alberto Chong, Ana L. De La O and Dean Karlan, Leonard Wantchekon

Political Science Journal of Politics 2015
Problem Solving in a Polarized Age: Comparative Effectiveness Research and the Politicization of Evidence-Based Medicine

Alan S. Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik

Political Science Forum 2010
How Do Public Goods Providers Play Public Goods Games?

Daniel M. Butler and Thad Kousser

Political Science Legislative Studies Quarterly 2015
Equal Treatment and the Inelasticity of Tax Policy to Rising Inequality

Ken Scheve and David Stasavage

Political Science Comparative Political Studies 2022
An Experiment Testing the Relative Effectiveness of Encouraging Voter Participation by Inducing Feelings of Pride or Shame

Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green and Christopher W. Larimer

Political Science Political Behavior 2010
Intensity, Geography, and Time: Three Controversies Indexed by Major Repeal Drives

David Mayhew and Ethan Yan

Political Science Studies in American Political Development 2025
Lethal Incompetence: Voters, Officials, and Systems

Jonathan Bendor, John G. Bullock

Political Science Critical Review 2008
Ideology, Learning, and Policy Diffusion: Experimental Evidence

Daniel M. Butler, Craig Volden, Adam M. Dynes, Boris Shor

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2015
The Adaptability Paradox: Constitutional Resilience and Principles of Good Government in Twenty-First-Century America
Steven Skowronek and Karen Orren
Political Science Perspectives on Politics 2020
Political Practitioners Poorly Predict Which Messages Persuade the Public

David E. Broockman, Joshua L. Kalla, Christian Caballero, and Matthew Easton

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024
Do Subtle Linguistic Interventions Priming a Social Identity as a Voter Have Outsized Effects on Voter Turnout? Evidence From a New Replication Experiment

Alan Gerber, Greg Huber, and Al Fang

Political Science Political Psychology 2017
Career Concerns and the Dynamics of Electoral Accountability

Matias Iaryczower, Gabriel Lopez-Moctezuma,  and Adam Meirowitz

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2022
Party Affiliation, Partisanship, and Political Beliefs: A Field Experiment

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Ebonya Washington

Political Science American Political Science Review 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.

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.