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
Revisiting Electoral Volatility in Post Communist Countries: New Data, New Results and New Approaches

Eleanor Neff Powell and Joshua A. Tucker

Political Science British Journal of Political Science 2013
Technology Married to Good Governance and Diversity: Explaining e-Participation Preparedness in Government

Seulki Lee-Geiller

Political Science Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2024
A Cautionary Note on the Use of Matching to Estimate Causal Effects: An Empirical Example Comparing Matching Estimates to an Experimental Benchmark

Kevin Arceneaux, Alan S. Gerber, and Donald P. Green

Political Science Sociological Methods & Research 2010
Too Much Knowledge, Too Little Power: An Assessment of Political Knowledge in Highly Policed Communities

Vesla Weaver, Gwen Prowse, and Spencer Piston

Political Science Journal of Politics 2019
Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs About Politics

John G. Bullock, Alan Gerber, Seth J. Hill, Gregory Huber

Political Science 2013
Affluence and the Demand-Side for Policy Improvements: Exploring Elite Beliefs About Vulnerability to Societal Problems

Alan S. Gerber, Mackenzie Lockhart, and Eric M. Patashnik

Political Science The Forum 2024
Priming Self-Reported Partisanship: Implications for Survey Design and Analysis

Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, B Pablo Montagnes, Zachary Peskowitz

Political Science Public Opinion Quarterly 2022
Catch Us If You Can: Election Monitoring and International Norm Diffusion

Susan D. Hyde

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2011
Does Trust in Government Increase Support for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

Kyle Peyton

Political Science American Political Science Review 2020
Editorial Bias in Crowd-Sourced Political Information

Joshua L. Kalla, Peter M. Aronow

Political Science PLOS ONE 2015
Can Political Participation Prevent Crime? Results from a Field Experiment About Citizenship, Participation, and Criminality

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

Political Science Political Behavior 2017
Health-Care Reform, 2015

Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science Democracy Journal 2010
Can Citizens Assess Policies Based on Programs’ Costs and Benefits? The Role of Yardsticks and Contextual Information in Democratic Accountability

Eric M. Patashnik, Patrick Tucker, and Alan S. Gerber

Political Science Book chapter 2023
Dismantling the Health Care State? Political Institutions, Public Policies, and the Comparative Politics of Health Reform

Jacob S. Hacker

Political Science British Journal of Political Science 2004
The Effects of Lawn Signs on Vote Outcomes: Results from Four Randomized Field Experiments

Donald P. Green, Jonathan S. Krasno, Alexander Coppock, Benjamin D. Farrer, Brandon Lenoird, Joshua N. Zinghere

Political Science Electoral Studies 2016
The Downstream Benefits of Experimentation

Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber

Political Science Political Analysis 2002
Partisan and Nonpartisan Message Content and Voter Mobilization: Field Experimental Evidence

Costas Panagopoulos

Political Science Political Research Quarterly 2009
In Europe, Democracy Erodes from the Right

Milan Svolik, Johanna Lutz, Filip Milačić, and Elena Avramovska

Political Science Journal of Democracy 2023
Does Religion Distract the Poor? Income and Issue Voting Around the World

Ana L. De La O, Jonathan A. Rodden

Political Science Comparative Political Studies 2008
Correcting Bias in Perceptions of Public Opinion Among American Elected Officials: Results from Two Field Experiments

Joshua L. Kalla and Ethan Porter

Political Science British Journal of Political Science 2021

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.