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
Can Civilian Attitudes Predict Insurgent Violence? Ideology and Insurgent Tactical Choice in Civil War

Kentaro Hirose, Kosuke Imai and Jason Lyall

Political Science Journal of Peace Research 2017
Can Citizens Assess Policies Based on Programs’ Costs and Benefits? The Role of Yardsticks and Contextual Information in Democratic Accountability

Eric M. Patashnik, Patrick Tucker, and Alan S. Gerber

Political Science Book chapter 2023
The Interplay of Ideological Diversity, Dissents, and Discretionary Review in the Judicial Hierarchy: Evidence from Death Penalty Cases

Deborah Beim and Jonathan P. Kastellec

Political Science Journal of Politics 2014
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
Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk

Adam J. Berinsky, Gregory A. Huber, Gabriel S. Lenz

Political Science Political Analysis 2012
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
Getting out the Vote in Local Elections: Results from Six Door-to-Door Experiments

Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber, David W. Nickerson

Political Science Journal of Politics 2003
Economic Behavior and the Partisan Perceptual Screen

Mary C. McGrath

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2017
Strategies for Dealing with the Problem of Non-Overlapping Units of Assignment and Outcome Measurement in Field Experiments

Ana L. De La O, Daniel Rubenson

Political Science 2010
Do Conditional Cash Transfers Affect Electoral Behavior? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico

Ana De La O

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2013
The ‘Race Card’ Revisited: Assessing Racial Priming in Policy Contests

Gregory A. Huber, John S. Lapinski

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2006
Empirical Explanation in Political Science: The Case of Interest Groups

Joseph LaPalombara

Political Science Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche 2017
The Motivation to Vote: Explaining Electoral Participation André Blais and Jean-François Daoust

Alan S. Gerber

Political Science Canadian Journal of Political Science 2022
No Cost for Extremism: Why the GOP Hasn't (Yet) Paid For Its March to the Right

Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

Political Science American Prospect Magazine 2015
Publication Bias in Two Political Behavior Literatures

Alan S. Gerber, Neil Malhotra, Conor M. Dowling and David Doherty

Political Science American Politics Research 2010
Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre

David R. Mayhew

Political Science 2004
The World Wide Web and the U.S. Political News Market

Norman H. Nie, Derwin W. Miller, III, Saar Golde, Daniel M. Butler, and Kenneth Winneg

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2010
Self-Awareness of Political Knowledge

Matthew Graham

          
Political Science Political Behavior 2018
The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance

Jacob S. Hacker, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Paul Pierson, Kathleen Thelen

Political Science Annual Review of Political Science 2022
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

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.