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 |
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Too Much Knowledge, Too Little Power: An Assessment of Political Knowledge in Highly Policed Communities |
Vesla Weaver, Gwen Prowse, and Spencer Piston |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2019 |
Bargaining Power in the Supreme Court: Evidence from Opinion Assignment and Vote Switching |
Jeffrey R. Lax and Kelly Rader |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2015 |
Misperceptions of Relative Affluence and Support for International Redistribution |
Gautam Nair |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2018 |
The Effect of a Nonpartisan Get-Out-the Vote Drive: An Experimental Study of Leafletting |
Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2000 |
International Scrutiny and Pre-Electoral Fiscal Manipulation in Developing Countries |
Hyde, Susan D., Angela O’Mahony |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2010 |
Does Corruption Information Inspire the Fight or Quash the Hope? A Field Experiment in Mexico on Voter Turnout, Choice, and Party Identification |
Alberto Chong, Ana L. De La O and Dean Karlan, Leonard Wantchekon |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2015 |
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 |
Can the Government Deter Discrimination? Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in New York City |
Albert H. Fang, Andrew M. Guess, and Macartan Humphreys |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2018 |
Targeted Campaign Appeals and the Value of Ambiguity |
Eitan D. Hersh and Brian F. Schaffner |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2013 |
Are Voting Norms Conditional? How Electoral Context and Peer Behavior Shape the Social Returns to Voting |
David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Alan S. Gerber, and Gregory A. Huber
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Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2017 |
A Field Experiment on Legislators’ Home Styles: Service versus Policy |
Daniel Butler, Christopher Karpowitz and Jeremy Pope |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2012 |
Getting out the Vote in Local Elections: Results from Six Door-to-Door Experiments |
Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber, David W. Nickerson |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2003 |
Does Knowledge of Constitutional Principles Increase Support for Civil Liberties? Results from a Randomized Field Experiment |
Donald P. Green, Peter M. Aronow, Daniel E. Bergan, Pamela Greene, Celia Paris and Beth I. Weinberger |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2011 |
Thank You for Voting: Gratitude Expression and Voter Mobilization |
Costas Panagopoulos |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2011 |
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 |
Mediating the Electoral Connection: The Information Effects of Voter Signals on Legislative Behavior |
John Henderson and John Brooks |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2016 |
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 |
Personality Traits and Participation in Political Processes |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Connor Raso, Shang E. Ha |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2011 |
’Don’t Know’ Means ‘Don’t Know’: DK Responses and the Public’s Level of Political Knowledge |
Robert C. Luskin and John G. Bullock |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2011 |
Ideologically Extreme Candidates in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1948–2012 |
Marty Cohen, Mary C. McGrath, Peter Aronow, John Zaller |
Political Science | Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science | 2016 |
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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