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
Legal Cynicism and Protective Gun Ownership Among Active Offenders in Chicago

Michael Sierra-Arévalo

Sociology ISPS working paper 2014
Selling Health Data: De-Identification, Privacy, and Speech

Bonnie Kaplan

Bioethics ISPS working paper 2014
Are Democracies Better at Solving Problems than Non-Democratic Regimes?

Bryan D. Jones

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
How Should Health Data Be Used? Privacy, Secondary Use, and Big Data Sales

Bonnie Kaplan

Bioethics ISPS working paper 2014
The Politics of Problem Solving: Housing, Pensions, and the Organization of Interests

Sarah F. Anzia

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
Reflections on Government Success and Failure

Lawrence Rothenberg

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
Heuristic Agenda Closure in Administrative Government

Daniel Carpenter

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
Congress as Problem Solver: Building Consensus Despite Polarization

James M. Curry and Frances E. Lee

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
Patient Health Data Privacy

Bonnie Kaplan

Bioethics ISPS working paper 2014
Who Bears the Burden of Rising Health Care Spending in the US? Evidence from Hospital Mergers

Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Lev Klarnet, Zarek Brot-Goldberg, and Ithai Lurie

Economics ISPS working paper 2022
The Civil Service as a Problem-Solving Institution

Donald Moynihan

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
Problem-solving Criminal Justice

Steven Teles

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the U.S. Hospital Sector?

Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, and Lev Klarnet

 

Economics ISPS working paper 2022
Irregular Transparency? An Experiment Involving Mexico's Freedom of Information Law

Paul Lagunes

Political Science ISPS working paper 2009
Congressional Fundraising Dynamics and Their Implications for Problem-Solving

Brandice Canes-Wrone

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
Demand- and Supply-Side Factors in Government’s Performance as a Problem-Solving Institution

Alan S. Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
48 Years of Crime in Chicago: A Descriptive Analysis of Serious Crime Trends from 1965 to 2013

Andrew V. Papachristos

Sociology ISPS working paper 2013
On Evidence-Based Political Science

Donald P. Green

Interdisciplinary Daedalus 2005
The Effect of Priming Structural Fairness on Inequality Beliefs and Preferences

Paul Lendway and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science American Politics Research 2023
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

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.