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 ascending Publication Year
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
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
Evaluating Bias and Noise Induced by the U.S. Census Bureau’s Privacy Protection Methods

Christopher T. Kenny, Cory McCartan, Shiro Kuriwaki, Tyler Simko, and Kosuke Imai

Political Science Science Advances 2024
Party Affiliation, Partisanship, and Political Beliefs: A Field Experiment

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

Political Science American Political Science Review 2010
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
Equal Treatment and the Inelasticity of Tax Policy to Rising Inequality

Ken Scheve and David Stasavage

Political Science Comparative Political Studies 2022
Whistleblowing and Compliance in the Judicial Hierarchy

Deborah Beim, Alexander V. Hirsch and Jonathan P. Kastellec

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2014
Citizens’ Policy Confidence and Electoral Punishment: A Neglected Dimension of Electoral Accountability

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

Political Science Journal of Politics 2011
How Robust Is Evidence of Partisan Perceptual Bias in Survey Responses? A New Approach for Studying Expressive Responding

Yair Omer and Gregory Huber

Political Science Public Opinion Quarterly 2021
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 Politicians Racially Discriminate Against Constituents? A Field Experiment on State Legislators

Daniel M. Butler, David E. Broockman

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2011
The Dog That Almost Barked: What the ACA Repeal Fight Says about the Resilience of the American Welfare State

Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

Political Science Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2018
Career Concerns and the Dynamics of Electoral Accountability

Matias Iaryczower, Gabriel Lopez-Moctezuma,  and Adam Meirowitz

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2022
After the “Master Theory”: Downs, Schattschneider, and the Rebirth of Policy-Focused Analysis

Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

Political Science Perspectives on Politics 2014
Sources of Bias in Retrospective Decision Making: Experimental Evidence on Voters’ Limitations in Controlling Incumbents

Gregory A. Huber, Seth J. Hill, Gabriel S. Lenz

Political Science American Political Science Review 2012
Economic Decline, Social Identity, and Authoritarian Values in the United States

Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Amalie Jensen & Kenneth Scheve

Political Science 2021
Heuristic Agenda Closure in Administrative Government

Daniel Carpenter

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
On the Inconsistency of Matching Without Replacement

Fredrik Sävje

Political Science Biometrika 2021
How Black Candidates Affect Voter Turnout

Ebonya Washington

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Economics 2006

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.