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
Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes

Sendhil Mullainathan, Ebonya Washington

Political Science American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2009
Testing the Implicit-Explicit Model of Racialized Political Communication.

Gregory A. Huber, John S. Lapinski

Political Science Perspectives on Politics 2008
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
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
The Effects of Party Cues Are Not the Effects of Partisanship

Alexander Coppock

Political Science Political Science Quarterly 2025
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
Congressional Fundraising Dynamics and Their Implications for Problem-Solving

Brandice Canes-Wrone

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
A Note on Close Elections and Regression Analysis of the Party Incumbency Advantage

Peter M. Aronow, David R. Mayhew and Winston Lin

Political Science Statistics, Politics, and Policy 2015
Irregular Transparency? An Experiment Involving Mexico's Freedom of Information Law

Paul Lagunes

Political Science ISPS working paper 2009
What to Expect When You're Electing: Citizen Forecasts in the 2020 Election
Gregory A. Huber and Patrick D. Tucker
Political Science Political Science Research and Methods 2023
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
Using Random Judge Assignments to Estimate the Effects of Incarceration and Probation on Recidivism Among Drug Offenders

Donald P. Green, Daniel Winik

Political Science Criminology 2010
Out of Balance: Medicare, Interest Groups, and American Politics

Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science Generations 2015
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
When Does Increasing Mobilization Effort Increase Turnout? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Reminder Calls

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang,  and Catlan E. Reardon

Political Science American Politics Research 2020
Organizational Leaders and Intersectional Advocacy

Maraam A. Dwidar, Kathleen Marchetti, and Dara Z. Strolovitch

Political Science Politics, Groups, and Identities 2024
Honor and War: Southern US Presidents and the Effects of Concern for Reputation

Allan Dafoe and Devin Caughey

Political Science World Politics 2016
Inequality, American Democracy, and American Political Science: The Need for Cumulative Research

Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science PS: Political Science & Politics 2006
Control without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments

Christina Kinane

Political Science American Political Science Review 2021
The Dynamic Relationship between Personality Stability and Political Attitudes

Joshua Boston, Jonathan Homola, Betsy Sinclair, Michelle Torres, Patrick D. Tucker

Political Science Perspectives on Politics 2018

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.