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 descending Publication Year
Ideas, Private Institutions, and American Welfare State ‘Exceptionalism'

Daniel Béland , Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science International Journal of Social Welfare 2004
Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre

David R. Mayhew

Political Science 2004
Economic Incentives or Racial Bias? Public Opinion and Racial Inequities in Power Plant Siting in the United States

Eric Scheuch

Political Science Energy Research & Social Science 2025
Partisan Mail and Voter Turnout: Results from Randomized Field Experiments

Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green, Matthew Green

Political Science Electoral Studies 2003
Fossil Fuel Divestment and Public Climate Change Policy Preferences: An Experimental Test in Three Countries

Joshua A. Schwartz, Paul Lendway & Abolfazl Nuri

Political Science Environmental Politics 2023
How Issue Positions Affect Candidate Performance: Experiments Comparing Campaign Donors and the Mass Public

Andrew Gooch and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Political Behavior 2020
Nongovernmental Campaign Communication Providing Ballot Secrecy Assurances Increases Turnout: Results From Two Large-Scale Experiments

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang and Andrew Gooch

Political Science Political Science Research and Methods 2017
Strategic Campaign Attention to Abortion Before and After Dobbs

Mellissa Meisels

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2025
Experimental Research on Democracy and Development

Ana L. De La O, Leonard Wantchekon

Political Science 2010
Does It Matter Who’s Behind the Curtain? Anonymity in Political Advertising and the Effects of Campaign Finance Disclosure

Conor M. Dowling and Amber Wichowsky

Political Science American Politics Research 2013
Putting the Party Back into Politics: An Experiment Testing Whether Election Day Festivals Increase Voter Turnout

Elizabeth Addonizio, Donald P. Green, James M. Glaser

Political Science PS: Political Science & Politics 2007
Work Requirements and Perceived Deservingness of Medicaid

Jennifer Wu

Political Science American Politics Research 2020
Generalizing from Survey Experiments Conducted on Mechanical Turk: A Replication Approach

Alexander E. Coppock

Political Science Political Science Research and Methods 2018
Baseline, Placebo, and Treatment: Efficient Estimation for Three-Group Experiments

Gerber, Alan S., Donald P. Green, Edward H. Kaplan and Holger L. Kern

Political Science Political Analysis 2010
Ballot Secrecy Concerns and Voter Mobilization: New Experimental Evidence About Message Source, Context, and the Duration of Mobilization Effects

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

Political Science American Politics Research 2014
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
Personality and the Strength and Direction of Partisan Identification

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

Political Science Political Behavior 2012
Democracy's Devout Defenders

Kate Baldwin

Political Science Journal of Democracy 2023
Not by Turnout Alone: Measuring the Sources of Electoral Change, 2012 to 2016

Seth J. Hill, Daniel J. Hopkins, and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Science Advances 2021
Do Bilinguals Respond More Favorably to Candidate Advertisements in English or in Spanish?

Alejandro Flores and Alexander Coppock

Political Science Political Communication 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.