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 Publicationsort ascending Year
Messages Designed to Increase Perceived Electoral Closeness Increase Turnout

Daniel R. Biggers, David J. Hendry, and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science American Politics Research 2023
The Federal Spending Paradox: Economic Self-Interest and Symbolic Racism in Contemporary Fiscal Politics

Katherine Krimmel and Kelly Rader

Political Science American Politics Research 2017
Perceptions of Program Abuse and Support for Social Insurance

Scott E. Bokemper, Albert H. Fang, and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science American Politics Research 2020
Does the U.S. Congress Respond to Public Opinion on Trade?

Boram Lee, Michael Pomirchy, and Bryan Schonfeld

Political Science American Politics Research 2023
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 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
How Partisanship Influences What Congress Says Online and How They Say It

Richard T. Wang and Patrick D. Tucker

Political Science American Politics Research 2020
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
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
Gender Roles, Work-Life Balance, and Running for Office

Rachel Silbermann

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2015
Can Learning Constituency Opinion Affect How Legislators Vote? Results from a Field Experiment

Daniel M. Butler and David W. Nickerson

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2011
Economic Behavior and the Partisan Perceptual Screen

Mary C. McGrath

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2017
Can the Political Ambition of Young Women Be Increased? Evidence from U.S. High School Students

Joshua Kalla and Ethan Porter

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2022
Emails from Official Sources Can Increase Turnout

Neil Malhotra, Melissa R. Michelson, Ali Adam Valenzuela

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2012
I’m Asking for Your Support: The Effects of Personally Delivered Campaign Messages on Voting Decisions and Opinion Formation

Kevin Arceneaux

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2007
The Effect of Electoral Competitiveness on Incumbent Behavior

Sanford C. Gordon, Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2007
Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs about Politics

John G. Bullock, Alan S. Gerber, Seth J. Hill and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2015
Presidential Prospects, Political Support, and Stock Market Performance

Nikhar Gaikwad

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2013
The Long-lasting Effects of Newspaper Op-Eds on Public Opinion

Alexander Coppock, Emily Ekins and David Kirby

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2018
Do Statistical Reporting Standards Affect What Is Published? Publication Bias in Two Leading Political Science Journals

Alan Gerber and Neil Malhotra

Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2008

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

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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 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.