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.

Titlesort descending Author(s) Discipline Publication Year
Mediation Analysis Is Harder than It Looks

John G. Bullock, Shang E. Ha

 Political Science 2010
Misperceptions of Relative Affluence and Support for International Redistribution

Gautam Nair

 Political Science Journal of Politics 2018
Mobilizing African-Americans using Direct Mail and Commercial Phone Banks: A Field Experiment.

Donald P. Green

 Political Science Political Research Quarterly 2004
Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns

Lisa García Bedolla and Melissa R. Michelson

 Political Science 2012
Modeling Contagion Through Social Networks to Explain and Predict Gunshot Violence in Chicago, 2006 to 2014

Green Ben, Thibaut Horel, Andrew V. Papachristos

 Interdisciplinary JAMA Internal Medicine 2017
Monitoring Bureaucratic Compliance: Using Field Experiments to Improve Governance

Daniel M. Butler

 Political Science Public Sector Digest 2010
Movers, Stayers, and Registration: Why Age is Correlated with Registration in the U.S.

Stephen Ansolabehere, Eitan Hersh, Kenneth Shepsle

 Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2012
Much Ado About Nothing: RDD and the Incumbency Advantage

Robert Erikson and Kelly Rader

 Political Science Political Analysis 2017
National Service and Civic Engagement: A Natural Experiment

Ryan J.B. Garcia

 Political Science Political Behavior 2014
Nativism or Economic Threat: Attitudes Toward Immigrants During the Great Recession

Judith L. Goldstein, Margaret E. Peters

 Political Science International Interactions 2014
Neighborhood Co-Offending Networks, Structural Embeddedness, and Violent Crime in Chicago

 Sara Bastomski, Noli Brazil, Andrew V. Papachristos

 Sociology Social Networks 2017
Network Exposure and Homicide Victimization in an African American Community

Andrew V. Papachristos and Christopher Wildeman

 Sociology American Journal of Public Health 2013
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
No Justice, No Peace: Political Science Perspectives on the American Carceral State

Allison P. Harris, Hannah L. Walker and Laurel Eckhouse

 Political Science Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 2020
Non-Coercive Mobilization in State-Controlled Elections: An Experimental Study in Beijing

Mei Guan, Donald P. Green

 Political Science Comparative Political Studies 2006
Nongovernmental Campaign Communication Providing Ballot Secrecy Assurances Increases Turnout: Results From Two Large-Scale Experiments

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang and Andrew Gooch

 Political Science Political Science Research and Methods 2017
Observational Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment

Hongbin Cai, Yuyu Chen, Hanming Fang

 Economics American Economic Review 2009
Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment.

Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman

 Economics Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy 2010
Of Stasis and Movements: Climate Legislation in the 111th Congress

Nathaniel Loewentheil

 Law ISPS working paper 2013
On Evidence-Based Political Science

Donald P. Green

 Interdisciplinary Daedalus 2005

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

Let Them Eat Tweets

Hacker Pierson American Amnesia

Karen Orren & Stephen Skowronek, The Policy State

The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine

The Imprint of Congress, David R. Mayhew

Gerber Green Field Experiments

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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.