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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Were Newspapers More Interested in pro-Obama Letters to the Editor in 2008? Evidence from a Field Experiment |
Daniel M. Butler, Emily Schofield |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2010 |
| Is the Significance of Race Declining in the Political Arena? Yes, and No |
Jennifer Hochschild & Vesla Weaver |
Political Science | Ethnic and Racial Studies | 2015 |
| Do Community-Based Mobilization Campaigns Work Even in Battleground States? Evaluating the Effectiveness of MoveOn 2004 Outreach Campaign |
Joel A. Middleton, Donald P. Green |
Political Science | Quarterly Journal of Political Science | 2008 |
| Identifying the Effect of All-Mail Elections on Turnout: Staggered Reform in the Evergreen State |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber and Seth J. Hill |
Political Science | Political Science Research and Methods | 2013 |
| Should I Cast an Ill-Informed Ballot? Examining the Contours of the Normative Obligation to Vote |
David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Alan S. Gerber, and Gregory A. Huber |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2019 |
| Is Transparency an Effective Anti-Corruption Strategy? Evidence From a Field Experiment in India |
Leonid Peisakhin and Paul Pinto |
Political Science | Regulation and Governance | 2010 |
| Mediating the Electoral Connection: The Information Effects of Voter Signals on Legislative Behavior |
John Henderson and John Brooks |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2016 |
| A Regression Discontinuity Design Analysis of the Incumbency Advantage and Tenure in the U.S. House. |
Daniel M. Butler |
Political Science | Electoral Studies | 2009 |
| Personality Traits and Participation in Political Processes |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Connor Raso, Shang E. Ha |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2011 |
| 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 |
| Who Is Mobilized to Vote? A Re-Analysis of 11 Field Experiments |
Kevin Arceneaux, David W. Nickerson |
Political Science | American Journal of Political Science | 2009 |
| Cognitive Biases and the Strength of Political Arguments |
Kevin Arceneaux |
Political Science | American Journal of Political Science | 2012 |
| Elite Influence on Public Opinion in an Informed Electorate |
John G. Bullock |
Political Science | American Political Science Review | 2011 |
| The Generalizability of Social Pressure Effects on Turnout Across High-Salience Electoral Contexts |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang, Andrew Gooch |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2017 |
| Abandoning the Middle: The Revealing Case of the Bush Tax Cuts |
Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson |
Political Science | Perspectives on Politics | 2005 |
| The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment. |
Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green |
Political Science | American Political Science Review | 2000 |
| How Partisanship Influences What Congress Says Online and How They Say It |
Richard T. Wang and Patrick D. Tucker |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2020 |
| Ripping Yarn: Experiments on Storytelling by Partisan Elites |
Andrew Gooch |
Political Science | Political Communication | 2017 |
| Government Transparency and Policymaking |
Justin Fox |
Political Science | Public Choice | 2007 |
| Do Better Committee Assignments Meaningfully Benefit Legislators? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Arkansas State Legislature |
David E. Broockman and Daniel M. Butler |
Political Science | Journal of Experimental 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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