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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citizens’ Policy Confidence and Electoral Punishment: A Neglected Dimension of Electoral Accountability |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty and Conor M. Dowling |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2011 |
| Primary Divisions: How Voters Evaluate Policy and Group Differences in Intra-Party Contests |
John A. Henderson, Geoffrey Sheagley, Stephen N. Goggin, Logan Dancey, and Alexander G. Theodoridis |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2021 |
| Descriptive Social Norms and Motivation to Vote: Everybody's Voting and So Should You |
Alan S. Gerber and Todd Rogers |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2009 |
| Do Televised Presidential Ads Increase Voter Turnout? Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
Jonathan S. Krasno, Donald P. Green |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2008 |
| Targeted Campaign Appeals and the Value of Ambiguity |
Eitan D. Hersh and Brian F. Schaffner |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2013 |
| A Field Experiment on Legislators’ Home Styles: Service versus Policy |
Daniel Butler, Christopher Karpowitz and Jeremy Pope |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2012 |
| Response to Franz, Freedman, Goldstein, and Ridout |
Jonathan S. Krasno, Donald P. Green |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2008 |
| Does Incarceration Reduce Voting? Evidence about the Political Consequences of Spending Time in Prison |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Marc Meredith, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2017 |
| What Have We Learned about Gender from Candidate Choice Experiments? A Meta-Analysis of Sixty-Seven Factorial Survey Experiments |
Susanne Schwarz and Alexander Coppock |
Political Science | Journal of Politics | 2022 |
| 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 |
| A Regression Discontinuity Design Analysis of the Incumbency Advantage and Tenure in the U.S. House. |
Daniel M. Butler |
Political Science | Electoral Studies | 2009 |
| Why Don't People Vote in U.S. Primary Elections? Assessing Theoretical Explanations for Reduced Participation |
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry |
Political Science | Electoral Studies | 2017 |
| 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 |
| Partisan Mail and Voter Turnout: Results from Randomized Field Experiments |
Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green, Matthew Green |
Political Science | Electoral Studies | 2003 |
| Social Pressure, Surveillance and Community Size: Evidence from Field Experiments on Voter Turnout |
Costas Panagopoulos |
Political Science | Electoral Studies | 2011 |
| Abandoning the Middle: The Revealing Case of the Bush Tax Cuts |
Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson |
Political Science | Perspectives on Politics | 2005 |
| Children and War: How “Soft” Research Can Answer the Hard Questions in Political Science |
Christopher Blattman |
Political Science | Perspectives on Politics | 2012 |
| American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality: Report of the American Political Science Association Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy |
American Political Science Association Task Force |
Political Science | Perspectives on Politics | 2004 |
| America’s New Racial Battle Lines. By Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King |
Jacob S. Hacker |
Political Science | Perspectives on Politics | 2025 |
| Experimenting in Democracy Promotion: International Observers and the 2004 Presidential Elections in Indonesia. |
Hyde, Susan D. |
Political Science | Perspectives on Politics | 2010 |
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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