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 | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Control without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments |
Christina Kinane |
Political Science | American Political Science Review | 2021 |
| Demand- and Supply-Side Factors in Government’s Performance as a Problem-Solving Institution |
Alan S. Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik |
Political Science | ISPS working paper | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Inequality, American Democracy, and American Political Science: The Need for Cumulative Research |
Jacob S. Hacker |
Political Science | PS: Political Science & Politics | 2006 |
| 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 |
| Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children’s Economic Mobility |
Rourke O’Brien, Manuel Schechtl, and Zachary Parolin |
Sociology | American Sociological Review | 2025 |
| Race and State in City Police Spending Growth 1980 to 2010 |
Robert Vargas and Philip McHarris |
Sociology | Sociology of Race and Ethnicity | 2016 |
| Racial Profiling and Use of Force in Police Stops: How Local Events Trigger Periods of Increased Discrimination |
Joscha Legewie |
Sociology | American Journal of Sociology | 2016 |
| The Interplay of Race/Ethnicity and Education in Fertility Patterns |
Emma Zang, Chloe Sariego and Anirudh Krishnan |
Sociology | Population Studies | 2022 |
| Gender, Fear, and Public Places: How Negative Encounters with Strangers Harm Women |
Sara Bastomski and Philip Smith
|
Sociology | Sex Roles | 2016 |
| Municipal Police and the Economic Mobility Gap Between Black and White Males in the US |
Manuel Schechtl and Rourke O’Brien |
Sociology | Research in Social Stratification and Mobility | 2024 |
| Legal Cynicism and Protective Gun Ownership Among Active Offenders in Chicago |
Michael Sierra-Arévalo |
Sociology | Cogent Social Sciences | 2016 |
| Neighborhood Co-Offending Networks, Structural Embeddedness, and Violent Crime in Chicago |
Sara Bastomski, Noli Brazil, Andrew V. Papachristos |
Sociology | Social Networks | 2017 |
| Legal Cynicism and Protective Gun Ownership Among Active Offenders in Chicago |
Michael Sierra-Arévalo |
Sociology | ISPS working paper | 2014 |
| Police Violence and Citizen Crime Reporting in the Black Community |
Matthew Desmond, Andrew V. Papachristos and David S. Kirk |
Sociology | American Sociological Review | 2016 |
| Fiscal Impoverishment in Rich Democracies |
Manuel Schechtl and Rourke L. O’Brien |
Sociology | Social Forces | 2023 |
| Network Exposure and Homicide Victimization in an African American Community |
Andrew V. Papachristos and Christopher Wildeman |
Sociology | American Journal of Public Health | 2013 |
| Local Government Expenditure Centralization and Spatial Variation in Working-Age Mortality |
Rourke O’Brien, Manuel Schechtl, Robert Manduca, and Atheendar Venkataramani |
Sociology | Social Science & Medicine - Population Health | 2025 |
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 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 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.