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
Democracy, the Market, and the Logic of Social Choice

Samuel DeCanio

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2014
Randomness Reconsidered: Modeling Random Judicial Assignment in the U.S. Courts of Appeals

Matthew Hall

Political Science Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 2010
The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence From Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom

Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Mashail A. Malik, Stephanie J. Rickard, and Kenneth Scheve

Political Science Comparative Political Studies 2021
Should I Cast an Ill-Informed Ballot? Examining the Contours of the Normative Obligation to Vote

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

Political Science American Politics Research 2019
Why Vote with the Chief? Political Connections and Public Goods Provision in Zambia

Kate Baldwin

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2014
Which Elections Can Be Lost?

Susan D. Hyde and Nikolay Marinov

Political Science Political Analysis 2012
The Observer Effect in International Politics: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Susan D. Hyde

Political Science World Politics 2007
Why People Vote: Estimating the Social Returns to Voting

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

Political Science British Journal of Political Science 2016
Can Racial Diversity among Judges Affect Sentencing Outcomes?

Allison Harris

Political Science American Political Science Review 2023
How International Election Observers Detect and Deter Fraud

Susan D. Hyde

Political Science 2008
The Geography of Racially Polarized Voting: Calibrating Surveys at the District Level

Shiro Kuriwaki, Stephen Ansolabhere, Angelo Dagonel, and Soichiro Yamauchi

Political Science American Political Science Review 2023
Staying Out of Sight? Concentrated Policing and Local Political Action

Amy E. Lerman and Vesla Weaver

Political Science Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science 2014
Using Cluster Randomized Field Experiments to Study Voting Behavior

Kevin Arceneaux

Political Science Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science 2005
Ideologically Extreme Candidates in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1948–2012

Marty Cohen, Mary C. McGrath, Peter M. Aronow, John Zaller

Political Science Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science 2016
Movers, Stayers, and Registration: Why Age is Correlated with Registration in the U.S.

Stephen Ansolabehere, Eitan Hersh, Kenneth Shepsle

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2012
Were Newspapers More Interested in pro-Obama Letters to the Editor in 2008? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Daniel M. Butler, Emily Schofield

Political Science American Politics Research 2010
Reducing Exclusionary Attitudes Through Interpersonal Conversation: Evidence From Three Field Experiments

Joshua L. Kalla and David E. Broockman

Political Science American Political Science Review 2020
The Primacy of Race in the Geography of Income-Based Voting: New Evidence from Public Voting Records

Eitan D. Hersh and Clayton Nall

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2015
Do Community-Based Mobilization Campaigns Work Even in Battleground States? Evaluating the Effectiveness of MoveOn 2004 Outreach Campaign

Joel A. Middleton, Donald P. Green

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2008
Introduction to Social Pressure and Voting: New Experimental Evidence

Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber

Political Science Political Behavior 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.