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 Yearsort ascending
Influence without Bribes: A Noncontracting Model of Campaign Giving and Policymaking

Justin Fox and Lawrence Rothenberg

Political Science Political Analysis 2011
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
The Causal Effect of Media-Driven Political Interest on Political Attitudes and Behavior

Daniel M. Butler, Ana L. De La O

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2011
’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
Revisiting Public Opinion in the 1930s and 1940s

Adam J. Berinsky, Eleanor Neff Powell, Eric Schickler and Ian Brett Yohai

Political Science PS: Political Science & Politics 2011
Judicial Review as a Response to Political Posturing

Justin Fox and Matthew C. Stephenson

Political Science American Political Science Review 2011
Social Pressure, Surveillance and Community Size: Evidence from Field Experiments on Voter Turnout

Costas Panagopoulos

Political Science Electoral Studies 2011
Does Knowledge of Constitutional Principles Increase Support for Civil Liberties? Results from a Randomized Field Experiment

Donald P. Green, Peter M. Aronow, Daniel E. Bergan, Pamela Greene, Celia Paris and Beth I. Weinberger

Political Science Journal of Politics 2011
The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena

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

Political Science Annual Review of Political Science 2011
How Large and Long-lasting Are the Persuasive Effects of Televised Campaign Ads? Results from a Randomized Field Experiment

Alan S. Gerber, James G. Gimpel, Donald P. Green, Daron R. Shaw

Political Science American Political Science Review 2011
Catch Us If You Can: Election Monitoring and International Norm Diffusion

Susan D. Hyde

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2011
Instrumental Variables Estimation in Political Science: A Readers’ Guide

Allison J. Sovey, Donald P. Green

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2011
The Persuasive Effects of Direct Mail: A Regression Discontinuity Based Approach

Gerber, Alan S., Daniel P. Kessler and Marc Meredith

Political Science Journal of Politics 2011
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
The Conscription of Wealth: Mass Warfare and the Demand for Progressive Taxation

Kenneth Scheve, David Stasavage

Political Science International Organization 2010
Peer Pressure Against Prejudice: A High School Field Experiment Examining Social Network Change

Elizabeth Levy Paluck

Psychology Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 2010
Standing on Shaky Ground: Americans' Experiences with Economic Insecurity

Hacker, Jacob S., Philipp Rehm & Mark Schlesinger

Interdisciplinary 2010
Spanish-Language Radio Advertisements and Latino Voter Turnout in the 2006 Congressional Elections: Field Experimental Evidence

Costas Panagopoulos and Donald P. Green

Political Science Political Research Quarterly 2010
Party Affiliation, Partisanship, and Political Beliefs: A Field Experiment

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Ebonya Washington

Political Science American Political Science Review 2010
Monitoring Bureaucratic Compliance: Using Field Experiments to Improve Governance

Daniel M. Butler

Political Science Public Sector Digest 2010

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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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.

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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.