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 descending Publication Year
Voting May be Habit Forming: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green, Ron Shachar

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2003
National Service and Civic Engagement: A Natural Experiment

Ryan J.B. Garcia

Political Science Political Behavior 2014
Voter Outreach Campaigns Can Reduce Affective Polarization among Implementing Political Activists: Evidence from Inside Three Campaigns

Joshua L. Kalla and David E. Broockman

Political Science American Political Science Review 2022
The Moral Foundations of Politics

Ian Shapiro

Political Science 2003
Testing the Accuracy of Regression Discontinuity Analysis Using Experimental Benchmarks

Donald P. Green, Terence Y. Leong, Holger L. Kern, Alan S. Gerber, and Christopher W. Larimer

Political Science Political Analysis 2009
Local Demographic Changes and US Presidential Voting, 2012 to 2016

Seth J. Hill, Daniel J. Hopkins, and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019
Deference, Dissent, and Dispute Resolution: An Experimental Intervention Using Mass Media to Change Norms and Behavior in Rwanda.

Elizabeth Levy Paluck & Donald P. Green

Political Science American Political Science Review 2009
The Effect of Electoral Competitiveness on Incumbent Behavior

Sanford C. Gordon, Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2007
Police Are Our Government: Politics, Political Science, and the Policing of Race-Class Subjugated Communities

Joe Soss and Vesla Weaver

Political Science Annual Review of Political Science 2017
Are Democracies Better at Solving Problems than Non-Democratic Regimes?

Bryan D. Jones

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
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
Linear Aggregation in Tree-based Estimators

Sören R Künzel, Theo F Saarinen, Edward W Liu, Jasjeet S Sekhon

Political Science Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 2022
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
Changes in Candidate Evaluations over the Campaign Season: A Comparison of House, Senate, and Presidential Races

Patrick D. Tucker and Steven S. Smith

Political Science Political Behavior 2020
The Equalizing Effect of the Internet on Access to Research Expertise in Political Science and Economics.

Daniel M. Butler, Richard J. Butler, Jesse Rich

Political Science PS: Political Science & Politics 2008
Are Voting Norms Conditional? How Electoral Context and Peer Behavior Shape the Social Returns to Voting
David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Alan S. Gerber, and Gregory A. Huber
Political Science Journal of Politics 2017
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
Presidential Prospects, Political Support, and Stock Market Performance

Nikhar Gaikwad

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2013
Motivated Reasoning and Democratic Accountability

Andrew T. Little, Keith E. Schnakenberg, & Ian R. Turner

Political Science American Political Science Review 2021
Racial Unfairness and Fiscal Politics

Katherine Krimmel and Kelly Rader

Political Science American Politics Research 2021

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.