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) | Discipline | Publication |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Learning from Ferguson Welfare, Criminal Justice, and the Political Science of Race and Class |
Joe Soss and Vesla Weaver |
Political Science | 2016 | |
| Race and State in City Police Spending Growth 1980 to 2010 |
Robert Vargas and Philip McHarris |
Sociology | Sociology of Race and Ethnicity | 2016 |
| Legal Cynicism and Protective Gun Ownership Among Active Offenders in Chicago |
Michael Sierra-Arévalo |
Sociology | Cogent Social Sciences | 2016 |
| Ideologically Extreme Candidates in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1948–2012 |
Marty Cohen, Mary C. McGrath, Peter M. Aronow, John Zaller |
Political Science | Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science | 2016 |
| Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws’ Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout |
Alan S. Gerber, Jonathan Gruber and Daniel M. Hungerman |
Political Science | British Journal of Political Science | 2016 |
| How Face-to-Face Interviews and Cognitive Skill Affect Item Non-Response: A Randomized Experiment Assigning Mode of Interview |
Andrew Gooch and Lynn Vavreck |
Political Science | Political Science Research and Methods | 2016 |
| Gender, Fear, and Public Places: How Negative Encounters with Strangers Harm Women |
Sara Bastomski and Philip Smith
|
Sociology | Sex Roles | 2016 |
| 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 |
| Chocolate Scents and Product Sales: A Randomized Controlled Trial in a Canadian Bookstore and Café |
Mary C. McGrath, Peter M. Aronow, Vivien Shotwell |
Interdisciplinary | Springer Plus | 2016 |
| Mediating the Electoral Connection: The Information Effects of Voter Signals on Legislative Behavior |
John Henderson and John Brooks |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2016 |
| Evaluating the Effect of Project Longevity on Group-Involved Shootings and Homicides in New Haven, Connecticut |
Michael Sierra-Arévalo, Yanick Charette, Andrew V. Papachristos |
Interdisciplinary | Criminal Justice | 2016 |
| 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 |
| Honor and War: Southern US Presidents and the Effects of Concern for Reputation |
Allan Dafoe and Devin Caughey |
Political Science | World Politics | 2016 |
| The Effects of Lawn Signs on Vote Outcomes: Results from Four Randomized Field Experiments |
Donald P. Green, Jonathan S. Krasno, Alexander Coppock, Benjamin D. Farrer, Brandon Lenoird, Joshua N. Zinghere |
Political Science | Electoral Studies | 2016 |
| Policy Misperceptions and Support for Gun Control Legislation |
Peter M. Aronow and Benjamin T. Miller |
Political Science | The Lancet | 2016 |
| Reporting Balance Tables, Response Rates and Manipulation Checks in Experimental Research: A Reply from the Committee that Prepared the Reporting Guidelines |
Alan S. Gerber, Kevin Arceneaux, Cheryl Boudreau, Conor Dowling, and D. Sunshine Hillygus |
Political Science | Journal of Experimental Political Science | 2016 |
| Changing Climates of Conflict: A Social Network Experiment in 56 Schools |
Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Hana Shepherd and Peter M. Aronow |
Interdisciplinary | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2016 |
| Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs about Politics |
John G. Bullock, Alan S. Gerber, Seth J. Hill and Gregory A. Huber |
Political Science | Quarterly Journal of Political Science | 2015 |
| Unbiased Estimation of the Average Treatment Effect in Cluster-Randomized Experiments |
Joel A. Middleton and Peter M. Aronow |
Political Science | Statistics, Politics, and Policy | 2015 |
| The Causal Effects of Elite Position-Taking on Voter Attitudes: Field Experiments with Elite Communication |
David Broockman and Daniel Butler |
Political Science | American Journal of Political Science | 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.
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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 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.