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 Yearsort ascending
Timing Is Everything? Primacy and Recency Effects in Voter Mobilization Campaigns

Costas Panagopoulos

Political Science Political Behavior 2010
Using Experiments to Estimate the Effects of Education on Voter Turnout

Rachel Milstein Sondheimer, Donald P. Green

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2010
Partisanship, Political Control, and Economic Assessments

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2010
Deference, Dissent, and Dispute Resolution: An Experimental Intervention Using Mass Media to Change Norms and Behavior in Rwanda.

Elizabeth Levy Paluck & Donald P. Green

Political Science American Political Science Review 2009
Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes

Holger Lutz Kern, Jens Hainmueller

Political Science Political Analysis 2009
Testing the Accuracy of Regression Discontinuity Analysis Using Experimental Benchmarks

Donald P. Green, Terence Y. Leong, Holger L. Kern, Alan S. Gerber, and Christopher W. Larimer

Political Science Political Analysis 2009
Observational Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment

Hongbin Cai, Yuyu Chen, Hanming Fang

Economics American Economic Review 2009
Child Combatants in Northern Uganda: Reintegration Myths and Realities

Christopher Blattman, Jeannie Annan

Political Science 2009
Yes We Can? The New Push for American Health Security

Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science Politics & Society 2009
Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts in Manila

Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman

Economics Review of Financial Studies 2009
The Effect of the Size of Voting Blocs on Incumbents' Roll-Call Voting and the Asymmetric Polarization of Congress

Daniel M. Butler

Political Science American Bahavioral Scientist 2009
Is the Internet Bridging the Gender Gap? The Case of Political Science

Daniel M. Butler, Richard J. Butler

Political Science Economics of Education Review 2009
Partisan Bias and the Bayesian Ideal in the Study of Public Opinion

John G. Bullock

Political Science Journal of Politics 2009
A Regression Discontinuity Design Analysis of the Incumbency Advantage and Tenure in the U.S. House.

Daniel M. Butler

Political Science Electoral Studies 2009
Get-Out-The-Vote Phone Calls: Does Quality Matter?

Shang E. Ha, Dean S. Karlan

Political Science American Politics Research 2009
Partisanship and Economic Behavior: Do Partisan Differences in Economic Forecasts Predict Real Economic Behavior?

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2009
From Violence to Voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda

Christopher Blattman

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2009
Field Experiments on Political and Collective Action

Eline A. De Rooij, Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber

Political Science Annual Review of Political Science 2009
Irregular Transparency? An Experiment Involving Mexico's Freedom of Information Law

Paul Lagunes

Political Science ISPS working paper 2009
Institutions, Partisanship, and Inequality in the Long Run

Kenneth Scheve, David Stasavage

Political Science World Politics 2009

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 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.

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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.