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
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
Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint

Jack B. Greenberg and John A. Dearborn

Political Science Book chapter 2025
Priming Self-Reported Partisanship: Implications for Survey Design and Analysis

Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, B Pablo Montagnes, Zachary Peskowitz

Political Science Public Opinion Quarterly 2022
Doing Well and Doing Good?: How Concern for Others Shapes Policy Preferences and Partisanship among Affluent Americans

Martin Gilens and Adam Thal

Political Science Public Opinion Quarterly 2018
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
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
Pop Culture and the Evolving Politics of the Right: The Potential of Interpretive Methods for Studying Gender, Race, and Politics

Minali Aggarwal and Micah English

Political Science Politics & Gender 2025
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
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
Catch Us If You Can: Election Monitoring and International Norm Diffusion

Susan D. Hyde

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2011
Learning from Ferguson Welfare, Criminal Justice, and the Political Science of Race and Class

Joe Soss and Vesla Weaver

Political Science 2016
Gender Composition Predicts Gender Bias: A Meta-reanalysis of Hiring Discrimination Audit Experiments

Diana Roxana Galos and Alexander Coppock

Political Science Science Advances 2023
The “Two Mr. Wilsons”: Party Government, Personal Leadership, and Woodrow Wilson’s Political Thought

John A. Dearborn

Political Science Congress and the Presidency 2019
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
Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States.

Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science American Political Science Review 2004
Getting out the Vote in Local Elections: Results from Six Door-to-Door Experiments

Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber, David W. Nickerson

Political Science Journal of Politics 2003
No Decarbonization without Democratization: To Save the Climate, Open Democracy

Hélène Landemore

Political Science Book chapter 2023
Democracy in America? Partisanship, Polarization, and the Robustness of Support for Democracy in the United States

Matthew Graham & Milan Svolik

Political Science American Political Science Review 2020
Can Raising the Stakes of Election Outcomes Increase Participation? Results from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Local Elections

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

Political Science British Journal of Political Science 2022

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.