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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Does Incarceration Reduce Voting? Evidence about the Political Consequences of Spending Time in Prison |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Marc Meredith, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2017 |
| A Field Experiment on Legislators’ Home Styles: Service versus Policy |
Daniel Butler, Christopher Karpowitz and Jeremy Pope |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2012 |
| Price and Party: The Importance of Partisanship and Cost in American Climate Public Opinion |
Eric G. Scheuch |
Political Science | PLOS Climate | 2024 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Corruption and Inequality at the Crossroad: A Multi-Method Study of Bribery and Discrimination in Latin America |
Brian J. Fried, Paul Lagunes, Atheendar Venkataramani |
Political Science | Latin American Research Review | 2010 |
| 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 |
| Reporting Guidelines for Experimental Research: A Report from the Experimental Research Section Standards Committee |
Alan Gerber, Kevin Arceneaux, Cheryl Boudreau, Conor Dowling, Sunshine Hillygus, Thomas Palfrey, Daniel R. Biggers and David J. Hendry |
Political Science | Journal of Experimental Political Science | 2014 |
| Problem-solving Criminal Justice |
Steven Teles |
Political Science | ISPS working paper | 2025 |
| Primary Voters Versus Caucus Goers and the Peripheral Motivations of Political Participation |
Eitan Hersh |
Political Science | Political Behavior | 2012 |
| Monitoring Bureaucratic Compliance: Using Field Experiments to Improve Governance |
Daniel M. Butler |
Political Science | Public Sector Digest | 2010 |
| The Persuasive Effects of Direct Mail: A Regression Discontinuity Based Approach |
Gerber, Alan S., Daniel P. Kessler and Marc Meredith |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2011 |
| The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence From Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom |
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Mashail A. Malik, Stephanie J. Rickard, and Kenneth Scheve |
Political Science | Comparative Political Studies | 2021 |
| Should I Cast an Ill-Informed Ballot? Examining the Contours of the Normative Obligation to Vote |
David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Alan S. Gerber, and Gregory A. Huber |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2019 |
| A Note on Close Elections and Regression Analysis of the Party Incumbency Advantage |
Peter M. Aronow, David R. Mayhew and Winston Lin |
Political Science | Statistics, Politics, and Policy | 2015 |
| Field Experiments Invoking Gloating Villains to Increase Voter Participation: Anger, Anticipated Emotions, and Voting Turnout |
Gregory A. Huber, Alan S. Gerber, Albert H. Fang, and John J. Cho |
Political Science | British Journal of Political Science | 2025 |
| When Do Governments Resort to Election Violence? |
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Susan D. Hyde and Ryan S. Jablonski |
Political Science | British Journal of Political Science | 2013 |
| Congressional Fundraising Dynamics and Their Implications for Problem-Solving |
Brandice Canes-Wrone |
Political Science | ISPS working paper | 2025 |
| Randomness Reconsidered: Modeling Random Judicial Assignment in the U.S. Courts of Appeals |
Matthew Hall |
Political Science | Journal of Empirical Legal Studies | 2010 |
| 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 |
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 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.






