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
Who Bears the Burden of Rising Health Care Spending in the US? Evidence from Hospital Mergers

Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Lev Klarnet, Zarek Brot-Goldberg, and Ithai Lurie

Economics ISPS working paper 2022
Who Gets the Credit? Legislative Responsiveness and Evaluations of Members, Parties, and the US Congress

Daniel M. Butler, Christopher F. Karpowitz, Jeremy C. Pope

Political Science Political Science Research and Methods 2018
Who Is Mobilized to Vote? A Re-Analysis of 11 Field Experiments

Kevin Arceneaux, David W. Nickerson

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2009
Who Makes Voting Convenient? Explaining the Adoption of Early and No-Excuse Absentee Voting in the American States

Daniel R. Biggers and Michael J. Hanmer

Political Science State Politics & Policy Quarterly 2015
Who Wants to Discuss Vote Choices with Others? Polarization in Preferences for Deliberation

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

Political Science Public Opinion Quarterly 2013
Why and How We Share Reproducible Research at Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Limor Peer

Interdisciplinary Harvard Data Science Review 2024
Why Do Courts Delay?

Deborah Beim, Tom S. Clark, and John W. Patty

Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Courts 2017
Why Don't People Vote in U.S. Primary Elections? Assessing Theoretical Explanations for Reduced Participation

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry

Political Science Electoral Studies 2017
Why Masses Support Democratic Backsliding

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

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2025
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
Why So Little Sectionalism in the Contemporary United States? The Under-representation of Place-Based Economic Interests

Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson, and Sam Zacher

Political Science Book chapter 2023
Why Vote with the Chief? Political Connections and Public Goods Provision in Zambia

Kate Baldwin

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2014
Widespread Partisan Gerrymandering Mostly Cancels Nationally, But Reduces Electoral Competition

Christopher T. Kennya, Cory McCartan, Tyler Simkoa, Shiro Kuriwaki, and Kosuke Imai

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2023
Winner-Take-All Politics and Political Science: A Response

Hacker, Jacob S. and Paul Pierson

Political Science Politics & Society 2010
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
Winners and Losers in the Commodity Lottery: The Impact of Terms of Trade Growth and Volatility in the Periphery, 1870-1939

Christopher Blattman, Jason Hwang, Jeffrey Williamson

Economics Journal of Development Economics 2007
Withdrawing and Drawing In: Political Discourse in Policed Communities

Vesla Weaver, Gwen Prowse, and Spencer Piston

Political Science Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 2020
Women, Work, and Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality

Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth

Political Science 2011
Work Requirements and Perceived Deservingness of Medicaid

Jennifer Wu

Political Science American Politics Research 2020
Yes We Can? The New Push for American Health Security

Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science Politics & Society 2009

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.