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 ascending Publication Year
Present at the Creation: The State in Early American Political History

Stephen Skowronek

Political Science Journal of the Early Republic 2018
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
Beyond LATE: Estimation of the Average Treatment Effect with an Instrumental Variable

Peter M. Aronow and Allison Carnegie

Political Science Political Analysis 2013
Can Official Messaging on Trust in Elections Break Through Partisan Polarization?

Jennifer Gaudette, Seth J. Hill, Thad Kousser, Mackenzie Lockhart, and Mindy Romero

Political Science British Journal of Political Science 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
Inference in Spatial Experiments with Interference using the SpatialEffect Package

Cyrus Samii, Ye Wang, Jonathan Sullivan, PM Aronow

Political Science Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics 2022
Dyadic Analysis in International Relations: A Cautionary Tale

Robert S. Erikson, Pablo M. Pinto, Kelly T. Rader

Political Science Political Analysis 2014
Voting May be Habit Forming: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green, Ron Shachar

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2003
Timing Is Everything? Primacy and Recency Effects in Voter Mobilization Campaigns

Costas Panagopoulos

Political Science Political Behavior 2010
Grassroots Mobilization and Voter Turnout in 2004

Daniel E. Bergan, Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green, and Costas Panagopoulos

Political Science Public Opinion Quarterly 2005
On Some Connections Between Negotiating While Fighting and Bargaining Between a Buyer and Seller

Adam Meirowitz

Political Science Games 2023
Testing the Accuracy of Regression Discontinuity Analysis Using Experimental Benchmarks

Donald P. Green, Terence Y. Leong, Holger L. Kern, Alan S. Gerber, and Christopher W. Larimer

Political Science Political Analysis 2009
Irrelevant Events and Voting Behavior: Replications Using Principles from Open Science

Matthew H. Graham, Gregory A. Huber, Neil Malhotra, and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo

Political Science Journal of Politics 2021
Understanding the Policy Features That Affect Indians' Support for India's 2070 Net-Zero Goal

Matthew H. Goldberg, Jagadish Thaker, Eric G. Scheuch, Laura Thomas-Walters, Seth A. Rosenthal, and Anthony Leiserowitz

Political Science Climatic Change 2025
I’m Asking for Your Support: The Effects of Personally Delivered Campaign Messages on Voting Decisions and Opinion Formation

Kevin Arceneaux

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2007
Is There a Secret Ballot? Ballot Secrecy Perceptions and Their Implications for Voting Behaviour

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

Political Science British Journal of Political Science 2012
Disagreement and the Avoidance of Political Discussion: Aggregate Relationships and Differences across Personality Traits

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

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2012
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
Winner-Take-All Politics: Public Policy, Political Organization, and the Precipitous Rise of Top Incomes in the United States

Hacker, Jacob S. and Paul Pierson

Political Science Politics & Society 2010

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.