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
Partisan Bias and the Bayesian Ideal in the Study of Public Opinion

John G. Bullock

Political Science Journal of Politics 2009
A Discussion of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time By Ira Katznelson

David R. Mayhew

Political Science Perspectives on Politics 2014
Racial Resentment, Prejudice, and Discrimination

Kyle Peyton and Gregory Huber

Political Science Journal of Politics 2021
The Historical Presidency: The Foundations of the Modern Presidency: Presidential Representation, the Unitary Executive Theory, and the Reorganization Act of 1939

John Dearborn

Political Science Presidential Studies Quarterly 2018
Personality Traits and the Consumption of Political Information

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling

Political Science American Politics Research 2011
Reflections on Government Success and Failure

Lawrence Rothenberg

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
Does Corruption Information Inspire the Fight or Quash the Hope? A Field Experiment in Mexico on Voter Turnout, Choice, and Party Identification

Alberto Chong, Ana L. De La O and Dean Karlan, Leonard Wantchekon

Political Science Journal of Politics 2015
Problem Solving in a Polarized Age: Comparative Effectiveness Research and the Politicization of Evidence-Based Medicine

Alan S. Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik

Political Science Forum 2010
Political Practitioners Poorly Predict Which Messages Persuade the Public

David E. Broockman, Joshua L. Kalla, Christian Caballero, and Matthew Easton

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024
Do Politicians Racially Discriminate Against Constituents? A Field Experiment on State Legislators

Daniel M. Butler, David E. Broockman

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2011
Intensity, Geography, and Time: Three Controversies Indexed by Major Repeal Drives

David Mayhew and Ethan Yan

Political Science Studies in American Political Development 2025
Career Concerns and the Dynamics of Electoral Accountability

Matias Iaryczower, Gabriel Lopez-Moctezuma,  and Adam Meirowitz

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2022
Ideology, Learning, and Policy Diffusion: Experimental Evidence

Daniel M. Butler, Craig Volden, Adam M. Dynes, Boris Shor

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2015
Heuristic Agenda Closure in Administrative Government

Daniel Carpenter

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
America’s Welfare Parastate

Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science Perspectives on Politics 2016
On the Inconsistency of Matching Without Replacement

Fredrik Sävje

Political Science Biometrika 2021
How Black Candidates Affect Voter Turnout

Ebonya Washington

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Economics 2006
Correction to Gerber and Green (2000), Replication of Disputed Findings, and Reply to Imai (2005).

Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green

Political Science American Political Science Review 2005
Can the Backlash Against Voter ID Laws Activate Minority Voters? Experimental Evidence Examining Voter Mobilization Through Psychological Reactance

Daniel R. Biggers

Political Science Political Behavior 2019
How Do Public Goods Providers Play Public Goods Games?

Daniel M. Butler and Thad Kousser

Political Science Legislative Studies Quarterly 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.

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.