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
Descriptive Social Norms and Motivation to Vote: Everybody's Voting and So Should You

Alan S. Gerber and Todd Rogers

Political Science Journal of Politics 2009
Stronger Policy, Stronger Politics

Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science American Prospect Magazine 2016
The Cost of Convenience: An Experiment Showing E-Mail Outreach Decreases Voter Registration

Elizabeth A. Bennion and David W. Nickerson

Political Science Political Research Quarterly 2011
Recruitment and Perceptions of Gender Bias in Party Leader Support

Daniel M. Butler and Jessica Robinson Preece

Political Science Political Research Quarterly 2016
Validation: What Big Data Reveal About Survey Misreporting and the Real Electorate

Stephen Ansolabehere and Eitan Hersh

Political Science Political Analysis 2012
Serving the Law or Playing Politics? The Strategic Use of U.S. Attorney Appointments

Christina M. Kinane, Lauren Mattioli

Political Science Presidential Studies Quarterly 2022
The Causal Effect of Media-Driven Political Interest on Political Attitudes and Behavior

Daniel M. Butler, Ana L. De La O

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2011
The Internet's Effect on Women's Coauthoring Rates and Academic Job Market Decisions: The Case of Political Science

Daniel M. Butler, Richard J. Butler

Political Science Economics of Education Review 2011
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
Partisanship and the Allocation of Federal Spending: Do Same-Party Legislators or Voters Benefit from Shared Party Affiliation with the President and House Majority?

Adam M. Dynes and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science American Political Science Review 2015
Does Incarceration Reduce Voting? Evidence about the Political Consequences of Spending Time in Prison

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Marc Meredith, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry

Political Science Journal of Politics 2017
The Politicization of Evidence-Based Medicine: The Limits of Pragmatic Problem Solving in an Era of Polarization

Alan S. Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik

Political Science California Journal of Politics and Policy 2011
Does the U.S. Congress Respond to Public Opinion on Trade?

Boram Lee, Michael Pomirchy, and Bryan Schonfeld

Political Science American Politics Research 2023
Persuading US White Evangelicals to Vaccinate for COVID-19: Testing Message Effectiveness in Fall 2020 and Spring 2021

Scott E. Bokemper, Alan S. Gerber, Saad B. Omer, Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021
Adaptive Experimental Design: Prospects and Applications in Political Science

Molly Offer‐Westort, Alexander Coppock, Donald P. Green

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2021
How Politicians Discount the Opinions of Constituents with Whom They Disagree

Daniel M. Butler and Adam M. Dynes

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2015
Do Phone Calls Increase Voter Turnout? An Update

Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green

Political Science Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science 2005
It's Largely a Rigged System: Voter Confidence and the Winner Effect in 2016

Betsy Sinclair, Steven S. Smith, and Patrick D. Tucker

Political Science Political Research Quarterly 2018
Targeted Campaign Appeals and the Value of Ambiguity

Eitan D. Hersh and Brian F. Schaffner

Political Science Journal of Politics 2013
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

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.