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
The Impacts of Climate Activism

Laura Thomas-Walters, Eric G. Scheuch, Abby Ong, and Matthew H. Goldberg

Political Science Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 2025
Can Incarcerated Felons Be (Re)integrated into the Political System? Results from a Field Experiment

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

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2014
The Importance of Breaking Even: How Local and Aggregate Returns Make Politically Feasible Policies

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Patrick D. Turner, and John J. Cho

Political Science British Journal of Political Science 2023
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
Police Are Our Government: Politics, Political Science, and the Policing of Race-Class Subjugated Communities

Joe Soss and Vesla Weaver

Political Science Annual Review of Political Science 2017
Integrating Web Applications into Popular Survey Platforms for Online Experiments

Benjamin Carter and Alessandro Del Ponte

Political Science Behavior Research Methods 2022
Bargaining Power in the Supreme Court: Evidence from Opinion Assignment and Vote Switching

Jeffrey R. Lax and Kelly Rader

Political Science Journal of Politics 2015
Changes in Candidate Evaluations over the Campaign Season: A Comparison of House, Senate, and Presidential Races

Patrick D. Tucker and Steven S. Smith

Political Science Political Behavior 2020
The Liar’s Dividend: Can Politicians Claim Misinformation to Evade Accountability?

Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Daniel Schiff, and Natalia S. Bueno

Political Science American Political Science Review 2024
Are Voting Norms Conditional? How Electoral Context and Peer Behavior Shape the Social Returns to Voting
David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Alan S. Gerber, and Gregory A. Huber
Political Science Journal of Politics 2017
Measuring Misperceptions?

Matthew H. Graham

Political Science American Political Science Review 2022
Integrating Civic and Artificial Intelligence in Policymaking: Experimental Insights on Public Perceptions of Policy Proposals

Seulki Lee-Geiller

Political Science Policy & Internet 2025
Unbiased Estimation of the Average Treatment Effect in Cluster-Randomized Experiments

Joel A. Middleton and Peter M. Aronow

Political Science Statistics, Politics, and Policy 2015
Mobilizing African-Americans using Direct Mail and Commercial Phone Banks: A Field Experiment.

Donald P. Green

Political Science Political Research Quarterly 2004
Field Experiments and the Study of Voter Turnout

Donald P. Green, Mary C. McGrath & Peter M. Aronow

Political Science Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties 2013
Racial Resentment, Prejudice, and Discrimination

Kyle Peyton and Gregory Huber

Political Science Journal of Politics 2021
The Historical Presidency: The Foundations of the Modern Presidency: Presidential Representation, the Unitary Executive Theory, and the Reorganization Act of 1939

John Dearborn

Political Science Presidential Studies Quarterly 2018
Using Experiments to Estimate the Effects of Education on Voter Turnout

Rachel Milstein Sondheimer, Donald P. Green

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2010
Identifying the Persuasive Effects of Presidential Advertising

Gregory A. Huber, Kevin Arceneaux

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2007
Patterns in American Elections

David R. Mayhew

Political Science 2014

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.