FSI Research - Governance

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Governance

Addressing issues of democracy, dictatorship, corruption and poverty, our scholars and practitioners produce expert research and train civil society activists around the world.

Research Spotlight

Global Populisms and Their Challenges

A white paper by the Stanford Global Populisms Project finds that established mainstream political parties are the key enablers of populist challenges—and the key solution.

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Protecting Electoral Integrity In the Digital Age

Today, free and fair elections, the primary expression of democratic will for collective government, are far from guaranteed in many countries around the world. Protecting them will require a new set of policies and actions from technological platforms, governments, and citizens.

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30 Years of World Politics: What Has Changed?

Francis Fukuyama argues that sustaining democracy will require rebuilding the legitimate authority of the institutions of liberal democracy, while resisting those powers that aspire to make nondemocratic institutions central.

Featured Scholars

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Larry Diamond

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science and Sociology

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Anna Grzymala-Busse

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Director of The Europe Center

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Didi Kuo

Senior Research Scholar

Associate Director for Research at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

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Stephen Stedman

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Deputy Director at the Center on Democracy Development and the Rule of Law

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Upcoming Events

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Publications

Working Papers

The (Too-Low but) Rising Quality of Democracy in Brazil and Chile

2003

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The Quality of Democracy: The Ambiguous Virtues of Accountability

2003

Books

Bending without Breaking, The Adaptability of Chinese Political Institutions

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Stanford University Press in "How Far Across the River? Chinese Policy Reform at the Millennium", 2003

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Putin and the Media

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M.E. Sharpe in "Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain", Dale Herspring, ed., 2003

Working Papers

Democratic Quality: Freedom and Rights

2003

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Islam and Democracy in the Middle East

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Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

Working Papers

On Democratic Equality

2003

Journal Articles

The Rule of Law as Transition to Democracy in China

Journal of Contemporary China, 2003

Working Papers

U.S. Foreign Policy and Chechnya

Washington: Twentieth Century Foundation, 2003

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The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons

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Hoover Institution, 2003

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Refugee Manipulation: War, Politics, and the Abuse of Human Suffering

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Brookings Institution Press, 2003

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Germany and Japan: Binding versus Autonomy

Cornell University Press in "The End of Diversity? Prospects of German and Japanese Capitalism", 2003

Working Papers

The Quality of Two Liberal Democracies in Africa: Ghana and South Africa

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2003

Journal Articles

Nuclear Terrorism Potential: Research Reactors vs. Power Reactors?

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OMZ: Osterreichische Militarische Zeitschrift (Austrian Military Periodical), 2003

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International Dimension of Illicit Trafficking in Nuclear and Other Radioactive Materials

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Austrian Military Journal (OMZ), 2003

Books

Putin and Democratization

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M.E. Sharpe in "Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain", Dale Herspring, ed., 2003

Working Papers

Assessing India and Bangladesh

2003

Journal Articles

Computerized Health Information and the Demand for Medical Care

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Value in Health, 2003

Working Papers

The Quality of Democracy in South Korea and Taiwan: Subjective Assessments from the Perspectives of Ordinary Citizens

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2003

Books

Introduction to the International Human Rights Regime

Brill Academic Pub, 2003

Journal Articles

Fractionalization

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Journal of Economic Growth, 2003

Working Papers

Workshop on Regime Transitions from Communist Rule in Comparative Perspective

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2003

Working Papers

Unbearable Lightness of Democracy

2003

Journal Articles

Test Performance of Positron Emission Tomography and Computed Tomography for Mediastinal Staging in Patients with Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

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Annals of Internal Medicine, 2003

Journal Articles

Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: History and Current Problems, The

Arms Control Today, 2003