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 | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Service and Civic Engagement: A Natural Experiment |
Ryan J.B. Garcia |
Political Science | Political Behavior | 2014 |
| The Moral Foundations of Politics |
Ian Shapiro |
Political Science | 2003 | |
| Clientelism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin |
Leonard Wantchekon |
Political Science | World Politics | 2003 |
| Voter Outreach Campaigns Can Reduce Affective Polarization among Implementing Political Activists: Evidence from Inside Three Campaigns |
Joshua L. Kalla and David E. Broockman |
Political Science | American Political Science Review | 2022 |
| Thin Populist Appeals and Democratic Backsliding Through Candidate Legitimization and Elite Delegitimization |
Paul Lendway |
Political Science | Political Behavior | 2025 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Are Democracies Better at Solving Problems than Non-Democratic Regimes? |
Bryan D. Jones |
Political Science | ISPS working paper | 2025 |
| Revisiting Public Opinion in the 1930s and 1940s |
Adam J. Berinsky, Eleanor Neff Powell, Eric Schickler and Ian Brett Yohai |
Political Science | PS: Political Science & Politics | 2011 |
| Linear Aggregation in Tree-based Estimators |
Sören R Künzel, Theo F Saarinen, Edward W Liu, Jasjeet S Sekhon |
Political Science | Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics | 2022 |
| Can Registration-Based Sampling Improve the Accuracy of Midterm Election Forecasts? |
Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber |
Political Science | Public Opinion Quarterly | 2006 |
| Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs about Politics |
John G. Bullock, Alan S. Gerber, Seth J. Hill and Gregory A. Huber |
Political Science | Quarterly Journal of Political Science | 2015 |
| Presidential Prospects, Political Support, and Stock Market Performance |
Nikhar Gaikwad |
Political Science | Quarterly Journal of Political Science | 2013 |
| Motivated Reasoning and Democratic Accountability |
Andrew T. Little, Keith E. Schnakenberg, & Ian R. Turner |
Political Science | American Political Science Review | 2021 |
| The Impacts of Climate Activism |
Laura Thomas-Walters, Eric G. Scheuch, Abby Ong, and Matthew H. Goldberg |
Political Science | Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences | 2025 |
| Does Campaign Spending Work? Field Experiments Provide Evidence and Suggest New Theory |
Alan S. Gerber |
Political Science | American Bahavioral Scientist | 2004 |
| Police Are Our Government: Politics, Political Science, and the Policing of Race-Class Subjugated Communities |
Joe Soss and Vesla Weaver |
Political Science | Annual Review of Political Science | 2017 |
| Social Pressure, Surveillance and Community Size: Evidence from Field Experiments on Voter Turnout |
Costas Panagopoulos |
Political Science | Electoral Studies | 2011 |
| The Importance of Breaking Even: How Local and Aggregate Returns Make Politically Feasible Policies |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Patrick D. Turner, and John J. Cho |
Political Science | British Journal of Political Science | 2023 |
| 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 |
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 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).
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