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Research Spotlight
Featured Scholars
Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science and Sociology
Anna Grzymala-Busse
Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Director of The Europe Center
Didi Kuo
Senior Research Scholar
Associate Director for Research at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
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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Commentary
The European parliament elections in 2014 are about more than protest votes
The Guardian,
Working Papers
Local Government Reform in China in the Past Ten Years: An Evaluation based on the Chinese Local Governance Innovation Awards
CDDRL Working Paper,
Working Papers
Republic of Government vis-a-vis Republic of Science: Analyzing China's Scientific Knowledge Production
CDDRL Working Papers,
Working Papers
Performance Legitimacy, State Autonomy and China's Economic Miracle
CDDRL Working Papers,
Journal Articles
Political Participation and Democratic Transition in the Arab Word
University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law,
Working Papers
Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China
CDDRL Working Papers,
Annual Reports
Thirty Years Connecting Asia with Stanford University
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center,
Working Papers
Authoritarian Parochialism: Local Congressional Representation in China
CDDRL Working Papers,
Working Papers
Understanding the Quality of Government in China: The Cadre Administration Hypothesis
CDDRL Working Papers,
Working Papers
Internal Government Assessments of the Quality of Governance in China
CDDRL Working Papers,
Working Papers
Perverse Complimentarity: Political Connections and the Use of Courts among Private Firms in China
CDDRL Working Paper,
Working Papers
Does it Pay to be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China
CDDRL Working Paper,
Journal Articles
Providing Quality Infrastructure in Rural Villages: The Case of Rural Roads in China
Journal of Development Economics,
Books
Services with Everything: The ICT-Enabled Digital Tranformation of Services
Oxford University Press in "The Third Globalization: Can Wealthy Nations Stay Rich in the Twenty-First Century?",
Journal Articles
The global imaginary, new media and sociopolitical innovation in the periphery: the practical case of an internet-based empowerment project in Palestine and Israel
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies,
Journal Articles
State Strategies in Multi-Ethnic Territories: Explaining Variation in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc
British Journal of Political Science,