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 ascending Author(s) Discipline Publication Year
Can Racial Diversity among Judges Affect Sentencing Outcomes?

Allison Harris

Political Science American Political Science Review 2023
Can Political Participation Prevent Crime? Results from a Field Experiment About Citizenship, Participation, and Criminality

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

Political Science Political Behavior 2017
Can Learning Constituency Opinion Affect How Legislators Vote? Results from a Field Experiment

Daniel M. Butler and David W. Nickerson

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2011
Can Incarcerated Felons Be (Re)integrated into the Political System? Results from a Field Experiment

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

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2014
Can Civilian Attitudes Predict Insurgent Violence? Ideology and Insurgent Tactical Choice in Civil War

Kentaro Hirose, Kosuke Imai and Jason Lyall

Political Science Journal of Peace Research 2017
Can Citizens Assess Policies Based on Programs’ Costs and Benefits? The Role of Yardsticks and Contextual Information in Democratic Accountability

Eric M. Patashnik, Patrick Tucker, and Alan S. Gerber

Political Science Book chapter 2023
Campaign Perceptions of Electoral Closeness: Uncertainty, Fear and Over-Confidence

Ryan D. Enos and Eitan D. Hersh

Political Science British Journal of Political Science 2015
Broad Cross-National Public Support for Accelerated COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Designs

David Broockman, Joshua Kalla, Alexander Guerrero, Mark Budolfson, Nir Eyal, Nicholas P. Jewell, Monica Magalhaes, and Jasjeet S. Sekhon

Interdisciplinary Vaccine 2021
Bringing the Welfare State Back In: The Promise (and Perils) of the New Social Welfare History

Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science Journal of Policy History 2005
Bridging the Blue Divide: The Democrats’ New Metro Coalition and the Unexpected Prominence of Redistribution

Jacob Hacker, Amelia Malpas, Paul Pierson, and Sam Zacher

Political Science Perspectives on Politics 2023
Black Politicians Are More Intrinsically Motivated to Advance Blacks' Interests: A Field Experiment Manipulating Political Incentives

David E. Broockman

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2013
Black Citizenship and Summary Punishment: A Brief History to the Present

Vesla M. Weaver

Political Science Theory & Event 2014
Big Ideas for Small Business

Peter Bassine, Della Clark, Gary Cunningham, Benjamin Della Rocca, Bulbul Gupta, Marie C. Johns, Bruce Katz, Nate Loewentheil, Jamie Rubin, Mary Jean Ryan, Luz Urrutia

Interdisciplinary ISPS working paper 2020
Big Five Personality Traits and Responses to Persuasive Appeals: Results from Voter Turnout Experiments

Alan S., Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Costas Panagopoulos

Political Science Political Behavior 2012
Bias and Judging
Allison P. Harris and Maya Sen
Political Science Annual Review of Political Science 2019
Beyond LATE: Estimation of the Average Treatment Effect with an Instrumental Variable

Peter M. Aronow and Allison Carnegie

Political Science Political Analysis 2013
Between the Waves: Building Power for a Public Option

Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2021
Bayesian Estimation and Model Selection in Group-Based Trajectory Models

Emma Zang and Justin T. Max

Psychology Psychological Methods 2020
Baseline, Placebo, and Treatment: Efficient Estimation for Three-Group Experiments

Gerber, Alan S., Donald P. Green, Edward H. Kaplan and Holger L. Kern

Political Science Political Analysis 2010
Bargaining Power in the Supreme Court: Evidence from Opinion Assignment and Vote Switching

Jeffrey R. Lax and Kelly Rader

Political Science Journal of Politics 2015

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.