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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to Social Pressure and Voting: New Experimental Evidence |
Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber |
Political Science | Political Behavior | 2010 |
| The Impact of Electoral Debate on Public Opinions: An Experimental Investigation of the 2005 New York City Mayoral Election |
Sendhil Mullainathan, Ebonya Washington and Julia R. Azari |
Political Science | 2010 | |
| Out of Balance: Medicare, Interest Groups, and American Politics |
Jacob S. Hacker |
Political Science | Generations | 2015 |
| The Geography of Racially Polarized Voting: Calibrating Surveys at the District Level |
Shiro Kuriwaki, Stephen Ansolabhere, Angelo Dagonel, and Soichiro Yamauchi |
Political Science | American Political Science Review | 2023 |
| Using Random Judge Assignments to Estimate the Effects of Incarceration and Probation on Recidivism Among Drug Offenders |
Donald P. Green, Daniel Winik |
Political Science | Criminology | 2010 |
| Ideologically Extreme Candidates in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1948–2012 |
Marty Cohen, Mary C. McGrath, Peter M. Aronow, John Zaller |
Political Science | Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science | 2016 |
| 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 |
| Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children’s Economic Mobility |
Rourke O’Brien, Manuel Schechtl, and Zachary Parolin |
Sociology | American Sociological Review | 2025 |
| Sex-Selective Abortion Bans and the Birth Outcomes of Asian Immigrants |
Emma Zang, Keitaro Okura, and Melissa Tian |
Sociology | Social Science & Medicine | 2025 |
| Race and State in City Police Spending Growth 1980 to 2010 |
Robert Vargas and Philip McHarris |
Sociology | Sociology of Race and Ethnicity | 2016 |
| The Interplay of Race/Ethnicity and Education in Fertility Patterns |
Emma Zang, Chloe Sariego and Anirudh Krishnan |
Sociology | Population Studies | 2022 |
| Racial Profiling and Use of Force in Police Stops: How Local Events Trigger Periods of Increased Discrimination |
Joscha Legewie |
Sociology | American Journal of Sociology | 2016 |
| Municipal Police and the Economic Mobility Gap Between Black and White Males in the US |
Manuel Schechtl and Rourke O’Brien |
Sociology | Research in Social Stratification and Mobility | 2024 |
| Gender, Fear, and Public Places: How Negative Encounters with Strangers Harm Women |
Sara Bastomski and Philip Smith
|
Sociology | Sex Roles | 2016 |
| Neighborhood Co-Offending Networks, Structural Embeddedness, and Violent Crime in Chicago |
Sara Bastomski, Noli Brazil, Andrew V. Papachristos |
Sociology | Social Networks | 2017 |
| Legal Cynicism and Protective Gun Ownership Among Active Offenders in Chicago |
Michael Sierra-Arévalo |
Sociology | ISPS working paper | 2014 |
| Legal Cynicism and Protective Gun Ownership Among Active Offenders in Chicago |
Michael Sierra-Arévalo |
Sociology | Cogent Social Sciences | 2016 |
| Police Violence and Citizen Crime Reporting in the Black Community |
Matthew Desmond, Andrew V. Papachristos and David S. Kirk |
Sociology | American Sociological Review | 2016 |
| Fiscal Impoverishment in Rich Democracies |
Manuel Schechtl and Rourke L. O’Brien |
Sociology | Social Forces | 2023 |
| Network Exposure and Homicide Victimization in an African American Community |
Andrew V. Papachristos and Christopher Wildeman |
Sociology | American Journal of Public Health | 2013 |
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.






