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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| The Observer Effect in International Politics: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
Susan D. Hyde |
Political Science | World Politics | 2007 |
| Why So Little Sectionalism in the Contemporary United States? The Under-representation of Place-Based Economic Interests |
Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson, and Sam Zacher |
Political Science | Book chapter | 2023 |
| Democracy, the Market, and the Logic of Social Choice |
Samuel DeCanio |
Political Science | American Journal of Political Science | 2014 |
| Recent Advances in the Science of Voter Mobilization |
Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber |
Political Science | Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science | 2005 |
| Identifying Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence on Compliance with Authority |
Eric S. Dickson, Sanford C. Gordon, and Gregory A. Huber |
Political Science | Science Advances | 2022 |
| Field Experiments Invoking Gloating Villains to Increase Voter Participation: Anger, Anticipated Emotions, and Voting Turnout |
Gregory A. Huber, Alan S. Gerber, Albert H. Fang, and John J. Cho |
Political Science | British Journal of Political Science | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes |
Sendhil Mullainathan, Ebonya Washington |
Political Science | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2009 |
| How Much Should We Trust Instrumental Variable Estimates in Political Science? Practical Advice Based on 67 Replicated Studies |
Apoorva Lal, Mackenzie Lockhart, Yiqing Xu, and Ziwen Zu |
Political Science | Political Analysis | 2024 |
| Why Vote with the Chief? Political Connections and Public Goods Provision in Zambia |
Kate Baldwin |
Political Science | American Journal of Political Science | 2014 |
| Testing the Implicit-Explicit Model of Racialized Political Communication. |
Gregory A. Huber, John S. Lapinski |
Political Science | Perspectives on Politics | 2008 |
| The German Trade Shock and the Rise of the Neo-Welfare State in Early Twentieth-Century Britain |
Ken Scheve and Theo Serlin |
Political Science | American Political Science Review | 2022 |
| Which Elections Can Be Lost? |
Susan D. Hyde and Nikolay Marinov |
Political Science | Political Analysis | 2012 |
| The Enduring Effects of Social Pressure: Tracking Campaign Experiments Over a Series of Elections |
Tiffany C. Davenport, Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green, Christopher W. Larimer, Christopher B. Mann and Costas Panagopoulos |
Political Science | Political Behavior | 2010 |
| The Generalizability of Social Pressure Effects on Turnout Across High-Salience Electoral Contexts |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang, Andrew Gooch |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2017 |
| Irregular Transparency? An Experiment Involving Mexico's Freedom of Information Law |
Paul Lagunes |
Political Science | ISPS working paper | 2009 |
| Introduction: American Government and the Politics of Problem Solving |
Alan S. Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik |
Political Science | The Forum | 2026 |
| Big Five Personality Traits and Responses to Persuasive Appeals: Results from Voter Turnout Experiments |
Alan S., Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Costas Panagopoulos |
Political Science | Political Behavior | 2012 |
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.






