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
Does Campaign Spending Work? Field Experiments Provide Evidence and Suggest New Theory

Alan S. Gerber

Political Science American Bahavioral Scientist 2004
Elite Influence on Public Opinion in an Informed Electorate

John G. Bullock

Political Science American Political Science Review 2011
The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment.

Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green

Political Science American Political Science Review 2000
Party Activists as Campaign Advertisers: The Ground Campaign as a Principal-Agent Problem

Ryan D. Enos and Eitan D. Hersh

Political Science American Political Science Review 2015
Are Coethnics More Effective Counterinsurgents? Evidence from the Second Chechen War

Jason Lyall

Political Science American Political Science Review 2010
The Desire for Social Status and Economic Conservatism among Affluent Americans

Adam Thal

Political Science American Political Science Review 2020
When to Worry about Sensitivity Bias: A Social Reference Theory and Evidence from 30 Years of List Experiments

Graeme Blair, Alexander Coppock, and Margaret Moor

Political Science American Political Science Review 2020
An Outbreak of Selective Attribution: Partisanship and Blame in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Matthew H. Graham and Shikhar Singh

Political Science American Political Science Review 2023
The Growth and Development of Experimental Research Political Science

James N. Druckman, Donald P. Green, James H. Kuklinski, Arthur Lupia

Political Science American Political Science Review 2006
Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, and Shang E. Ha

Political Science American Political Science Review 2010
"Outside Lobbying” over the Airwaves: A Randomized Field Experiment on Televised Issue Ads

Josh Kalla and David Broockman

Political Science American Political Science Review 2022
How Large and Long-lasting Are the Persuasive Effects of Televised Campaign Ads? Results from a Randomized Field Experiment

Alan S. Gerber, James G. Gimpel, Donald P. Green, Daron R. Shaw

Political Science American Political Science Review 2011
Foundations of a New Democracy: Schooling, Inequality, and Voting in the Early Republic

Tine Paulsen, Kenneth Scheve, and David Stasavage

Political Science American Political Science Review 2022
Does Trust in Government Increase Support for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

Kyle Peyton

Political Science American Political Science Review 2020
Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States.

Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science American Political Science Review 2004
Signaling with Reform: How the Threat of Corruption Prevents Informed Policy-making

Keith E. Schnakenberg and Ian R. Turner

Political Science American Political Science Review 2019
Democracy in America? Partisanship, Polarization, and the Robustness of Support for Democracy in the United States

Matthew Graham & Milan Svolik

Political Science American Political Science Review 2020
How Experiments Help Campaigns Persuade Voters: Evidence from a Large Archive of Campaigns’ Own Experiments

Luke Hewitt, David Broockman, Alexander Coppock, Ben M. Tappin, James Slezak, Valerie Coffman, Nathaniel Lubin, and Mohammed Hamidian

Political Science American Political Science Review 2024
Judicial Review as a Response to Political Posturing

Justin Fox and Matthew C. Stephenson

Political Science American Political Science Review 2011
Equal Votes, Equal Money: Court-Ordered Redistricting and Public Expenditures in the American States

Stephen Ansolabehere, Alan Gerber and James Snyder

Political Science American Political Science Review 2002

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 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.