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 | 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.
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 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.






