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
Thank You for Voting: Gratitude Expression and Voter Mobilization

Costas Panagopoulos

Political Science Journal of Politics 2011
Are Coethnics More Effective Counterinsurgents? Evidence from the Second Chechen War

Jason Lyall

Political Science American Political Science Review 2010
The Racial Burden of Voter List Maintenance Errors: Evidence from Wisconsin’s Supplemental Movers Poll Books

Gregory A. Huber, Marc Meredith, Michael Morse, & Katie Steele

Political Science Science Advances 2021
Cast Vote Records: A Database of Ballots From the 2020 U.S. Election

Shiro Kuriwaki et al.

Political Science Scientific Data 2024
When Politicians Cede Control of Resources: Land, Chiefs, and Coalition-Building in Africa

Kate Baldwin

Political Science Comparative Politics 2014
Analysis of Cluster-Randomized Experiments: A Comparison of Alternative Estimation Approaches

Donald P. Green, Lynn Vavreck

Political Science Political Analysis 2008
Listwise Deletion in High Dimensions

J. Sophia Wang and P. M. Aronow

Political Science Political Analysis 2023
Abortion Policy Preferences are Structured, Stable, and Consequential

Natalie Hernandez, Mackenzie Lockhart, Alan S. Gerber, and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2026
Children and War: How “Soft” Research Can Answer the Hard Questions in Political Science

Christopher Blattman

Political Science Perspectives on Politics 2012
Is Transparency an Effective Anti-Corruption Strategy? Evidence From a Field Experiment in India

Leonid Peisakhin and Paul Pinto

Political Science Regulation and Governance 2010
The Insurance Value of Abortion and Support for Reproductive Rights

Natalie Hernandez, Alexander Trubowitz, and Sam Zacher

Political Science Political Behavior 2025
A Regression Discontinuity Design Analysis of the Incumbency Advantage and Tenure in the U.S. House.

Daniel M. Butler

Political Science Electoral Studies 2009
Critical Events and Attitude Change: Support for Gun Control After Mass Shootings

Jon C. Rogowski and Patrick D. Tucker

Political Science Political Science Research and Methods 2019
The Effect of Priming Structural Fairness on Inequality Beliefs and Preferences

Paul Lendway and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science American Politics Research 2023
Do Robotic Calls From Credible Sources Influence Voter Turnout or Vote Choice? Evidence From a Randomized Field Experiment

Shaw, Daron R., Donald P. Green, James G. Gimpel & Alan S. Gerber

Political Science Journal of Political Marketing 2012
A Field Experiment Shows That Subtle Linguistic Cues Might Not Affect Voter Behavior

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

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016
How Voters Use Contextual Information to Reward and Punish: Credit Claiming, Legislative Performance, and Democratic Accountability

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

Political Science Journal of Politics 2021
Instrumental Variables Estimation in Political Science: A Readers’ Guide

Allison J. Sovey, Donald P. Green

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2011
Do Better Committee Assignments Meaningfully Benefit Legislators? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Arkansas State Legislature

David E. Broockman and Daniel M. Butler

Political Science Journal of Experimental Political Science 2015
Political Agency, Oversight, and Bias: The Instrumental Value of Politicized Policymaking

Ian R. Turner

Political Science Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 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.