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
Democracy, the Market, and the Logic of Social Choice

Samuel DeCanio

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2014
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
City Limits to Partisan Polarization in the American Public

Amalie Jensen, William Marble, Kenneth Scheve & Matthew J. Slaughter

Political Science Political Science Research and Methods 2021
Hookworm Eradication as a Natural Experiment for Schooling and Voting in the American South

John Henderson

Political Science Political Behavior 2018
The Dynamic Relationship between Personality Stability and Political Attitudes

Joshua Boston, Jonathan Homola, Betsy Sinclair, Michelle Torres, Patrick D. Tucker

Political Science Perspectives on Politics 2018
A Checkpoint Effect? Evidence from a Natural Experiment on Travel Restrictions in the West Bank

Matthew Longo, Daphna Canetti and Nancy Hite-Rubin

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2014
Insecure Alliances: Risk, Inequality, and Support for the Welfare State

Philipp Rhem, Jacob S. Hacker, Mark Schlesinger

Political Science American Political Science Review 2012
Listen for a Change? A Longitudinal Field Experiment on Listening’s Potential to Enhance Persuasion

Erik Santoro, David E. Broockman, Joshua L. Kalla, and Roni Porat

Political Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2025
Inequality, American Democracy, and American Political Science: The Need for Cumulative Research

Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science PS: Political Science & Politics 2006
What Goes with Red and Blue? Mapping Partisan and Ideological Associations in the Minds of Voters

Stephen N. Goggin, John A. Henderson, Alexander G. Theodoridis

          
Political Science Political Behavior 2019
What to Expect When You're Electing: Citizen Forecasts in the 2020 Election
Gregory A. Huber and Patrick D. Tucker
Political Science Political Science Research and Methods 2023
Staying Out of Sight? Concentrated Policing and Local Political Action

Amy E. Lerman and Vesla Weaver

Political Science Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science 2014
Movers, Stayers, and Registration: Why Age is Correlated with Registration in the U.S.

Stephen Ansolabehere, Eitan Hersh, Kenneth Shepsle

Political Science Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2012
How International Election Observers Detect and Deter Fraud

Susan D. Hyde

Political Science 2008
The Geography of Racially Polarized Voting: Calibrating Surveys at the District Level

Shiro Kuriwaki, Stephen Ansolabhere, Angelo Dagonel, and Soichiro Yamauchi

Political Science American Political Science Review 2023
The Primacy of Race in the Geography of Income-Based Voting: New Evidence from Public Voting Records

Eitan D. Hersh and Clayton Nall

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2015
Using Cluster Randomized Field Experiments to Study Voting Behavior

Kevin Arceneaux

Political Science Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science 2005
Ideologically Extreme Candidates in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1948–2012

Marty Cohen, Mary C. McGrath, Peter M. Aronow, John Zaller

Political Science Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science 2016
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
Reducing Exclusionary Attitudes Through Interpersonal Conversation: Evidence From Three Field Experiments

Joshua L. Kalla and David E. Broockman

Political Science American Political Science Review 2020

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.