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
How New Issues Become Polarized: Partisan Triggers and Subsystem Shopping in Early AI Policymaking

Robin Jacobson, Daniel S. Schiff, and Kaylyn Jackson Schiff

Political Science Policy & Internet 2025
Recruitment and Perceptions of Gender Bias in Party Leader Support

Daniel M. Butler and Jessica Robinson Preece

Political Science Political Research Quarterly 2016
Public Accountability and Political Participation: Effects of a Face-to-Face Feedback Intervention on Voter Turnout of Public Housing Residents

Tiffany C. Davenport

Political Science Political Behavior 2010
The Policy Scientist of Democracy: The Discipline of Harold D. Lasswell.

James Farr, Jacob S. Hacker, Nicole Kazee

Political Science American Political Science Review 2006
Generalized Full Matching

Fredrik Sävje, Michael J. Higgins & Jasjeet S. Sekhon

Political Science Political Analysis 2021
The Cost of Convenience: An Experiment Showing E-Mail Outreach Decreases Voter Registration

Elizabeth A. Bennion and David W. Nickerson

Political Science Political Research Quarterly 2011
Helping Friends or Influencing Foes: Electoral and Policy Effects of Campaign Finance Contributions

Keith E. Schnakenberg and Ian R. Turner

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2020
The Effect on Turnout of Campaign Mobilization Messages Addressing Ballot Secrecy Concerns: A Replication Experiment

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang, Catlan E. Reardon

Political Science PLOS ONE 2017
How and When Candidate Race Affects Inferences About Ideology and Group Favoritism

Jennifer D. Wu and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Political Science Research and Methods 2024
Validation: What Big Data Reveal About Survey Misreporting and the Real Electorate

Stephen Ansolabehere and Eitan Hersh

Political Science Political Analysis 2012
Why Masses Support Democratic Backsliding

Noam Gidron, Yotam Margalit, Lior Sheffer, and Itamar Yakir

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2025
The Causal Effect of Media-Driven Political Interest on Political Attitudes and Behavior

Daniel M. Butler, Ana L. De La O

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2011
Congress as Problem Solver: Building Consensus Despite Polarization

James M. Curry and Frances E. Lee

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
Serving the Law or Playing Politics? The Strategic Use of U.S. Attorney Appointments

Christina M. Kinane, Lauren Mattioli

Political Science Presidential Studies Quarterly 2022
From Cell Phones to Conflict? Reflections on the Emerging ICT-Political Conflict Research Agenda

Allan Dafoe and Jason Lyall

Political Science Journal of Peace Research 2015
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
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
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
The Null Impact of Parenthood on Technical Risk Preferences

Eric Scheuch

Political Science American Politics Research 2025
Avoiding Post-Treatment Bias in Audit Experiments

Alexander E. Coppock

Political Science Journal of Experimental Political Science 2019

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.