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
Influence without Bribes: A Noncontracting Model of Campaign Giving and Policymaking

Justin Fox and Lawrence Rothenberg

Political Science Political Analysis 2011
Child Combatants in Northern Uganda: Reintegration Myths and Realities

Christopher Blattman, Jeannie Annan

Political Science 2009
Ex Post Review and Expert Policy Making: When Does Oversight Reduce Accountability?

John W. Patty and and Ian R. Turner

Political Science Journal of Politics 2020
Information and Self-Enforcing Democracy: The Role of International Election Observation

Susan D. Hyde and Nikolay Marinov

Political Science International Organization 2014
Does Publicizing a Tax Credit for Political Contributions Increase Its Use?: Results From a Randomized Field Experiment.

Robert G. Boatright, Donald P. Green, Michael J. Malbin

Political Science American Politics Research 2006
Party Identification in the Age of Obama: Evidence on the Sources of Stability and Systematic Change in Party Identification from a Long-Term Panel Survey

Patrick D. Tucker, Jacob M. Montgomery, and Steven S. Smith

Political Science Political Research Quarterly 2018
Accountability Reconsidered: Conclusion: Assessing Contemporary Accountability

Charles M. Cameron, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Sanford C. Gordon, and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Book chapter 2023
Taking Sides in Other People’s Elections: The Polarizing Effect of Foreign Intervention

Daniel Corstange, Nikolay Marinov

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2012
Social Identity, Electoral Institutions and the Number of Candidates

Eric S. Dickson, Kenneth Scheve

Political Science British Journal of Political Science 2010
Institutional Sources of Legitimate Authority: An Experimental Investigation

Eric S. Dickson, Sanford C. Gordon and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2014
Field Experiments on Political and Collective Action

Eline A. De Rooij, Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber

Political Science Annual Review of Political Science 2009
Do Means of Program Delivery and Distributional Consequences Affect Policy Support? Experimental Evidence About the Sources of Citizens’ Policy Opinions

Vivekinan L. Ashok and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Political Behavior 2019
In Europe, Democracy Erodes from the Right

Milan Svolik, Johanna Lutz, Filip Milačić, and Elena Avramovska

Political Science Journal of Democracy 2023
Revisiting Electoral Volatility in Post Communist Countries: New Data, New Results and New Approaches

Eleanor Neff Powell and Joshua A. Tucker

Political Science British Journal of Political Science 2013
Learning from Ferguson Welfare, Criminal Justice, and the Political Science of Race and Class

Joe Soss and Vesla Weaver

Political Science 2016
A Cautionary Note on the Use of Matching to Estimate Causal Effects: An Empirical Example Comparing Matching Estimates to an Experimental Benchmark

Kevin Arceneaux, Alan S. Gerber, and Donald P. Green

Political Science Sociological Methods & Research 2010
Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs About Politics

John G. Bullock, Alan Gerber, Seth J. Hill, Gregory Huber

Political Science 2013
Too Much Knowledge, Too Little Power: An Assessment of Political Knowledge in Highly Policed Communities

Vesla Weaver, Gwen Prowse, and Spencer Piston

Political Science Journal of Politics 2019
The Motivation to Vote: Explaining Electoral Participation André Blais and Jean-François Daoust

Alan S. Gerber

Political Science Canadian Journal of Political Science 2022
Catch Us If You Can: Election Monitoring and International Norm Diffusion

Susan D. Hyde

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2011

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 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.