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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Can Racial Diversity among Judges Affect Sentencing Outcomes? |
Allison Harris |
Political Science | American Political Science Review | 2023 |
| 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 |
| The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence From Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom |
Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Mashail A. Malik, Stephanie J. Rickard, and Kenneth Scheve |
Political Science | Comparative Political Studies | 2021 |
| Should I Cast an Ill-Informed Ballot? Examining the Contours of the Normative Obligation to Vote |
David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Alan S. Gerber, and Gregory A. Huber |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2019 |
| Big Five Personality Traits and Responses to Persuasive Appeals: Results from Voter Turnout Experiments |
Alan S., Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Costas Panagopoulos |
Political Science | Political Behavior | 2012 |
| 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 |
| Identifying Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence on Compliance with Authority |
Eric S. Dickson, Sanford C. Gordon, and Gregory A. Huber |
Political Science | Science Advances | 2022 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Commonalities Surrounding Repeal Drives: Prohibition, Right-to-Work, and the Affordable Care Act |
David R. Mayhew |
Political Science | Conference Paper | 2024 |
| Which Narrative Strategies Durably Reduce Prejudice? Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments Supporting the Efficacy of Perspective-Getting |
Joshua L. Kalla, David E. Broockman |
Political Science | American Journal of Political Science | 2021 |
| How International Election Observers Detect and Deter Fraud |
Susan D. Hyde |
Political Science | 2008 | |
| 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 |
| Out of Balance: Medicare, Interest Groups, and American Politics |
Jacob S. Hacker |
Political Science | Generations | 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 |
| 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 |
| When Does Increasing Mobilization Effort Increase Turnout? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Reminder Calls |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang, and Catlan E. Reardon |
Political Science | American Politics Research | 2020 |
| Honor and War: Southern US Presidents and the Effects of Concern for Reputation |
Allan Dafoe and Devin Caughey |
Political Science | World Politics | 2016 |
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.