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
Primary Voters Versus Caucus Goers and the Peripheral Motivations of Political Participation

Eitan Hersh

Political Science Political Behavior 2012
Does the U.S. Congress Respond to Public Opinion on Trade?

Boram Lee, Michael Pomirchy, and Bryan Schonfeld

Political Science American Politics Research 2023
Persuading US White Evangelicals to Vaccinate for COVID-19: Testing Message Effectiveness in Fall 2020 and Spring 2021

Scott E. Bokemper, Alan S. Gerber, Saad B. Omer, Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021
Do Phone Calls Increase Voter Turnout? An Update

Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green

Political Science Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science 2005
Adaptive Experimental Design: Prospects and Applications in Political Science

Molly Offer‐Westort, Alexander Coppock, Donald P. Green

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2021
Partisanship and the Allocation of Federal Spending: Do Same-Party Legislators or Voters Benefit from Shared Party Affiliation with the President and House Majority?

Adam M. Dynes and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science American Political Science Review 2015
It's Largely a Rigged System: Voter Confidence and the Winner Effect in 2016

Betsy Sinclair, Steven S. Smith, and Patrick D. Tucker

Political Science Political Research Quarterly 2018
The Politicization of Evidence-Based Medicine: The Limits of Pragmatic Problem Solving in an Era of Polarization

Alan S. Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik

Political Science California Journal of Politics and Policy 2011
What Have We Learned about Gender from Candidate Choice Experiments? A Meta-Analysis of Sixty-Seven Factorial Survey Experiments

Susanne Schwarz and Alexander Coppock

Political Science Journal of Politics 2022
Do Congressional Candidates Have Reverse Coattails? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

David E. Broockman

Political Science Political Analysis 2009
Response to Franz, Freedman, Goldstein, and Ridout

Jonathan S. Krasno, Donald P. Green

Political Science Journal of Politics 2008
The Generalizability of Online Experiments Conducted During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kyle Peyton, Gregory A. Huber, and Alexander Coppock

Political Science Journal of Experimental Political Science 2021
How Politicians Discount the Opinions of Constituents with Whom They Disagree

Daniel M. Butler and Adam M. Dynes

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2015
Avoiding Post-Treatment Bias in Audit Experiments

Alexander E. Coppock

Political Science Journal of Experimental Political Science 2019
Targeted Campaign Appeals and the Value of Ambiguity

Eitan D. Hersh and Brian F. Schaffner

Political Science Journal of Politics 2013
Affect, Social Pressure and Prosocial Motivation: Field Experimental Evidence of the Mobilizing Effects of Pride, Shame and Publicizing Voting Behavior

Costas Panagopulos

Political Science Political Behavior 2010
The Enduring Effects of Social Pressure: Tracking Campaign Experiments Over a Series of Elections

Tiffany C. Davenport, Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green, Christopher W. Larimer, Christopher B. Mann and Costas Panagopoulos

Political Science Political Behavior 2010
Irregular Transparency? An Experiment Involving Mexico's Freedom of Information Law

Paul Lagunes

Political Science ISPS working paper 2009
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
Democracy, the Market, and the Logic of Social Choice

Samuel DeCanio

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2014

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 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.