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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Personality Traits and the Consumption of Political Information |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2011 |
| Ballot Secrecy Concerns and Voter Mobilization: New Experimental Evidence About Message Source, Context, and the Duration of Mobilization Effects |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Daniel R. Biggers, David J. Hendry |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2014 |
| The Comparative Effectiveness on Turnout of Positively Versus Negatively Framed Descriptive Norms in Mobilization Campaigns |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang, and Catlan E. Reardon |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2018 |
| 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 |
| Health Risks and Voting: Emphasizing Safety Measures Taken to Prevent COVID-19 Does Not Increase Willingness to Vote in Person |
Gregory A. Huber, Alan S. Gerber, and Scott E. Bokemper |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2023 |
| The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling |
Political Science | Annual Review of Political Science | 2011 |
| Accountability Reconsidered: Introduction |
Charles M. Cameron, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Sanford C. Gordon, and Gregory A. Huber |
Political Science | Book chapter | 2023 |
| Accountability Reconsidered: Conclusion: Assessing Contemporary Accountability |
Charles M. Cameron, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Sanford C. Gordon, and Gregory A. Huber |
Political Science | Book chapter | 2023 |
| Can Citizens Assess Policies Based on Programs’ Costs and Benefits? The Role of Yardsticks and Contextual Information in Democratic Accountability |
Eric M. Patashnik, Patrick Tucker, and Alan S. Gerber |
Political Science | Book chapter | 2023 |
| 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 |
| The Importance of Breaking Even: How Local and Aggregate Returns Make Politically Feasible Policies |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Patrick D. Turner, and John J. Cho |
Political Science | British Journal of Political Science | 2023 |
| House Members on the News: Local Television News Coverage of Incumbents |
Gregory A. Huber and Patrick D. Turner |
Political Science | British Journal of Political Science | 2024 |
| Can Raising the Stakes of Election Outcomes Increase Participation? Results from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Local Elections |
Gregory A. Huber, Alan S. Gerber, Daniel R. Biggers and David J. Hendry |
Political Science | British Journal of Political Science | 2022 |
| Is There a Secret Ballot? Ballot Secrecy Perceptions and Their Implications for Voting Behaviour |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty and Conor M. Dowling |
Political Science | British Journal of Political Science | 2012 |
| 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 |
| Representativeness and Motivations of the Contemporary Donorate: Results from Merged Survey and Administrative Records |
Seth J. Hill and Gregory A. Huber |
Political Science | Political Behavior | 2017 |
| Can Political Participation Prevent Crime? Results from a Field Experiment About Citizenship, Participation, and Criminality |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Daniel R. Biggers, David J. Hendry |
Political Science | Political Behavior | 2017 |
| How Issue Positions Affect Candidate Performance: Experiments Comparing Campaign Donors and the Mass Public |
Andrew Gooch and Gregory A. Huber |
Political Science | Political Behavior | 2020 |
| Personality and the Strength and Direction of Partisan Identification |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty and Conor M. Dowling |
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.
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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.