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
It's Largely a Rigged System: Voter Confidence and the Winner Effect in 2016

Betsy Sinclair, Steven S. Smith, and Patrick D. Tucker

Political Science Political Research Quarterly 2018
A Field Experiment on Legislators’ Home Styles: Service versus Policy

Daniel Butler, Christopher Karpowitz and Jeremy Pope

Political Science Journal of Politics 2012
Do Congressional Candidates Have Reverse Coattails? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

David E. Broockman

Political Science Political Analysis 2009
Response to Franz, Freedman, Goldstein, and Ridout

Jonathan S. Krasno, Donald P. Green

Political Science Journal of Politics 2008
Does the U.S. Congress Respond to Public Opinion on Trade?

Boram Lee, Michael Pomirchy, and Bryan Schonfeld

Political Science American Politics Research 2023
The Generalizability of Online Experiments Conducted During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kyle Peyton, Gregory A. Huber, and Alexander Coppock

Political Science Journal of Experimental Political Science 2021
Reporting Guidelines for Experimental Research: A Report from the Experimental Research Section Standards Committee

Alan Gerber, Kevin Arceneaux, Cheryl Boudreau, Conor Dowling, Sunshine Hillygus, Thomas Palfrey, Daniel R. Biggers and David J. Hendry

Political Science Journal of Experimental Political Science 2014
Persuading US White Evangelicals to Vaccinate for COVID-19: Testing Message Effectiveness in Fall 2020 and Spring 2021

Scott E. Bokemper, Alan S. Gerber, Saad B. Omer, Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021
Problem-solving Criminal Justice

Steven Teles

Political Science ISPS working paper 2025
Avoiding Post-Treatment Bias in Audit Experiments

Alexander E. Coppock

Political Science Journal of Experimental Political Science 2019
Primary Voters Versus Caucus Goers and the Peripheral Motivations of Political Participation

Eitan Hersh

Political Science Political Behavior 2012
Affect, Social Pressure and Prosocial Motivation: Field Experimental Evidence of the Mobilizing Effects of Pride, Shame and Publicizing Voting Behavior

Costas Panagopulos

Political Science Political Behavior 2010
Corruption and Inequality at the Crossroad: A Multi-Method Study of Bribery and Discrimination in Latin America

Brian J. Fried, Paul Lagunes, Atheendar Venkataramani

Political Science Latin American Research Review 2010
Why So Little Sectionalism in the Contemporary United States? The Under-representation of Place-Based Economic Interests

Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson, and Sam Zacher

Political Science Book chapter 2023
A Note on Close Elections and Regression Analysis of the Party Incumbency Advantage

Peter M. Aronow, David R. Mayhew and Winston Lin

Political Science Statistics, Politics, and Policy 2015
Identifying Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence on Compliance with Authority

Eric S. Dickson, Sanford C. Gordon, and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Science Advances 2022
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
When Do Governments Resort to Election Violence?

Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Susan D. Hyde and Ryan S. Jablonski

Political Science British Journal of Political Science 2013
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
How Much Should We Trust Instrumental Variable Estimates in Political Science? Practical Advice Based on 67 Replicated Studies

Apoorva Lal, Mackenzie Lockhart, Yiqing Xu, and Ziwen Zu

Political Science Political Analysis 2024

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.