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
Mediating the Electoral Connection: The Information Effects of Voter Signals on Legislative Behavior

John Henderson and John Brooks

Political Science Journal of Politics 2016
Instrumental Variables Estimation in Political Science: A Readers’ Guide

Allison J. Sovey, Donald P. Green

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2011
Personality Traits and Participation in Political Processes

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Connor Raso, Shang E. Ha

Political Science Journal of Politics 2011
Much Ado About Nothing: RDD and the Incumbency Advantage

Robert Erikson and Kelly Rader

Political Science Political Analysis 2017
Does Affective Polarization Undermine Democratic Norms or Accountability? Maybe Not

David E. Broockman, Joshua L. Kalla, Sean J. Westwood

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2022
Nativism or Economic Threat: Attitudes Toward Immigrants During the Great Recession

Judith L. Goldstein, Margaret E. Peters

Political Science International Interactions 2014
Varieties of Capitalist Interest and Capitalist Power: A Response to Swenson

Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson

Political Science Studies in American Political Development 2004
Racial Authoritarianism in U.S. Democracy

Vesla M. Weaver and Gwen Prowse

Political Science Science 2020
Testing for Publication Bias in Political Science

Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green, David W. Nickerson

Political Science Political Analysis 2001
Exploiting Donald Trump: Using Candidates’ Positions to Assess Ideological Voting in the 2016 and 2008 Presidential Elections

Andrew Gooch and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Presidential Studies Quarterly 2018
Accountability Reconsidered: Introduction

Charles M. Cameron, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Sanford C. Gordon, and Gregory A. Huber

Political Science Book chapter 2023
Policy-Induced Risk and Responsive Participation: The Effect of a Son’s Conscription Risk on the Voting Behavior of His Parents

Tiffany C. Davenport

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2014
Partisan Differences in Social Distancing May Originate in Norms and Beliefs: Results from Novel Data

Jennifer D. Wu and Gregory A. Huber

 

Political Science Social Science Quarterly 2021
Comparing Experimental and Matching Methods using a Large-Scale Voter Mobilization Experiment.

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

Political Science Political Analysis 2006
The Comparative Effectiveness on Turnout of Positively Versus Negatively Framed Descriptive Norms in Mobilization Campaigns

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang, and Catlan E. Reardon

Political Science American Politics Research 2018
Women, Work, and Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality

Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth

Political Science 2011
Yes, But What’s the Mechanism? (Don’t Expect an Easy Answer)

John G. Bullock, Donald P. Green, Shang E. Ha

Political Science Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2010
Partisanship and Economic Behavior: Do Partisan Differences in Economic Forecasts Predict Real Economic Behavior?

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber

Political Science American Journal of Political Science 2009
Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws’ Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout

Alan S. Gerber, Jonathan Gruber and Daniel M. Hungerman

Political Science British Journal of Political Science 2016
Campaign Perceptions of Electoral Closeness: Uncertainty, Fear and Over-Confidence

Ryan D. Enos and Eitan D. Hersh

Political Science British Journal of Political Science 2015

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.