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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Congressional Fundraising Dynamics and Their Implications for Problem-Solving |
Brandice Canes-Wrone |
Political Science | ISPS working paper | 2025 |
| Should I Cast an Ill-Informed Ballot? Examining the Contours of the Normative Obligation to Vote |
David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Alan S. Gerber, and Gregory A. Huber |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2019 |
| Randomness Reconsidered: Modeling Random Judicial Assignment in the U.S. Courts of Appeals |
Matthew Hall |
Political Science | Journal of Empirical Legal Studies | 2010 |
| Democracy, the Market, and the Logic of Social Choice |
Samuel DeCanio |
Political Science | American Journal of Political Science | 2014 |
| Why People Vote: Estimating the Social Returns to Voting |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty and Conor M. Dowling |
Political Science | British Journal of Political Science | 2016 |
| Can Racial Diversity among Judges Affect Sentencing Outcomes? |
Allison Harris |
Political Science | American Political Science Review | 2023 |
| The Effects of Party Cues Are Not the Effects of Partisanship |
Alexander Coppock |
Political Science | Political Science Quarterly | 2025 |
| The Observer Effect in International Politics: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
Susan D. Hyde |
Political Science | World Politics | 2007 |
| Why Vote with the Chief? Political Connections and Public Goods Provision in Zambia |
Kate Baldwin |
Political Science | American Journal of Political Science | 2014 |
| Recent Advances in the Science of Voter Mobilization |
Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber |
Political Science | Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science | 2005 |
| Which Elections Can Be Lost? |
Susan D. Hyde and Nikolay Marinov |
Political Science | Political Analysis | 2012 |
| Why So Little Sectionalism in the Contemporary United States? The Under-representation of Place-Based Economic Interests |
Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson, and Sam Zacher |
Political Science | Book chapter | 2023 |
| The Generalizability of Social Pressure Effects on Turnout Across High-Salience Electoral Contexts |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang, Andrew Gooch |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2017 |
| Identifying Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence on Compliance with Authority |
Eric S. Dickson, Sanford C. Gordon, and Gregory A. Huber |
Political Science | Science Advances | 2022 |
| Field Experiments Invoking Gloating Villains to Increase Voter Participation: Anger, Anticipated Emotions, and Voting Turnout |
Gregory A. Huber, Alan S. Gerber, Albert H. Fang, and John J. Cho |
Political Science | British Journal of Political Science | 2025 |
| Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes |
Sendhil Mullainathan, Ebonya Washington |
Political Science | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | 2009 |
| Testing the Implicit-Explicit Model of Racialized Political Communication. |
Gregory A. Huber, John S. Lapinski |
Political Science | Perspectives on Politics | 2008 |
| Big Five Personality Traits and Responses to Persuasive Appeals: Results from Voter Turnout Experiments |
Alan S., Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Costas Panagopoulos |
Political Science | Political Behavior | 2012 |
| How Partisanship Influences What Congress Says Online and How They Say It |
Richard T. Wang and Patrick D. Tucker |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2020 |
| How Much Should We Trust Instrumental Variable Estimates in Political Science? Practical Advice Based on 67 Replicated Studies |
Apoorva Lal, Mackenzie Lockhart, Yiqing Xu, and Ziwen Zu |
Political Science | Political Analysis | 2024 |
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.
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 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.






