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
Ballot Secrecy Concerns and Voter Mobilization: New Experimental Evidence About Message Source, Context, and the Duration of Mobilization Effects

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

Political Science American Politics Research 2014
Personality and the Strength and Direction of Partisan Identification

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

Political Science Political Behavior 2012
Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes

Holger Lutz Kern, Jens Hainmueller

Political Science Political Analysis 2009
Putting the Party Back into Politics: An Experiment Testing Whether Election Day Festivals Increase Voter Turnout

Elizabeth Addonizio, Donald P. Green, James M. Glaser

Political Science PS: Political Science & Politics 2007
The “Proper Organs” for Presidential Representation: A Fresh Look at the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921

John Dearborn

Political Science Journal of Policy History 2019
Voter Attitudes When Democracy Promotion Turns Partisan: Evidence From a Survey-Experiment in Lebanon

Nikolay Marinov

Political Science Democratization 2012
Democracy's Devout Defenders

Kate Baldwin

Political Science Journal of Democracy 2023
Baseline, Placebo, and Treatment: Efficient Estimation for Three-Group Experiments

Gerber, Alan S., Donald P. Green, Edward H. Kaplan and Holger L. Kern

Political Science Political Analysis 2010
The Effect of the Size of Voting Blocs on Incumbents' Roll-Call Voting and the Asymmetric Polarization of Congress

Daniel M. Butler

Political Science American Bahavioral Scientist 2009
Scientists’ Political Behaviors are not Driven by Individual-level Government Benefits

Baobao Zhang & Matto Mildenberger

Political Science PLOS ONE 2020
National Service and Civic Engagement: A Natural Experiment

Ryan J.B. Garcia

Political Science Political Behavior 2014
Candidate Choice Without Party Labels: New Insights from Conjoint Survey Experiments

Patricia A. Kirkland and Alexander Coppock

Political Science Political Behavior 2017
The Moral Foundations of Politics

Ian Shapiro

Political Science 2003
Clientelism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin

Leonard Wantchekon

Political Science World Politics 2003
Does Digital Advertising Affect Vote Choice? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Alexander Coppock, Donald P. Green, and Ethan Porter

Political Science Research & Politics 2022
Understanding the Policy Features That Affect Indians' Support for India's 2070 Net-Zero Goal

Matthew H. Goldberg, Jagadish Thaker, Eric G. Scheuch, Laura Thomas-Walters, Seth A. Rosenthal, and Anthony Leiserowitz

Political Science Climatic Change 2025
The Future of Field Experiments in International Relations

Susan D. Hyde

Political Science Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science 2010
Present at the Creation: The State in Early American Political History

Stephen Skowronek

Political Science Journal of the Early Republic 2018
The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It

Charles E. Lindblom

Political Science 2002
’Don’t Know’ Means ‘Don’t Know’: DK Responses and the Public’s Level of Political Knowledge

Robert C. Luskin and John G. Bullock

Political Science Journal of Politics 2011

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.