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

Let the Public Govern AI

By using the tools of deliberative democracy, Alice Siu says everyday users, not just industry moguls, can and should contribute meaningfully to important decisions about technology governance.

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Fabricated Justice: How Due Process Reform Enables Evidence Manipulation

Using evidence from Mexico, Beatriz Magaloni and Esteban Salmón examine when and how abusive criminal justice practices persist under democracy, even after significant institutional reform.

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Political Parties Are Essential Democratic Institutions

Didi Kuo explains why — despite their shortcomings — strong political parties with roots in society are essential to long-term democratic stability and economic growth.

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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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Publications

Working Papers

World-Wide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century, The

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2005

Books

Assessing the Quality of Democracy

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Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005

Working Papers

Putin as a State-Builder

CDDRL Working Papers, 2005

Working Papers

Policy Coherence and Incoherence: The Domestic Politics of American Democracy Promotion

CDDRL Working Papers, 2005

Books

U.N. Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: CCPR Commentary

Kehl [Germany]; Arlington, Va, U.S.A.: N.P. Engel, 2005

Working Papers

Is Democracy Good for the Poor?

CDDRL Working Papers, 2005

Working Papers

Law, Just War, and the International Fight Against Terrorism: Is it War?

CDDRL Working Papers, 2005

Journal Articles

Global Democracy?

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NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, 2005

Books

Parallel Lives? Oppenheimer and Khariton

University of California, Berkeley in "Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and Reflections", 2005

Working Papers

Japan in the U.S. Press: Bias and Stereotypes

2005

Working Papers

Main Institution in the Country is Corruption, The: Creating Transparency in Angola

CDDRL Working Papers, 2005

Journal Articles

Presidential Report to the Congress: Net Benefit Analysis of US/Soviet Arms Control

Science and Global Security, 2005

Journal Articles

Law and Corporate Governance

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Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2005

Working Papers

Global Justice

Address to National Convention, Democratici di Sinistra, 2005

Journal Articles

Evaluating The Efficiency Of California Providers In Caring For Patients With Chronic Illness

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Health Affairs, 2005

Journal Articles

Health Care Reform: Why? What? When?

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Health Affairs, 2005

Journal Articles

What Katrina Means for Emergency Management

The Forum, 2005

Books

What is Indonesia?

Rowman & Littlefield, 2005

Newsletters

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, fall 2005 issue

2005

Working Papers

China's Rural Public Finance: The Village Perspective - Annex 7

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Report to the World Bank, Village Finance: Tax-for-Fee-Reform, Village Operating Budgets and Public Goods Investment, 2005

Working Papers

IPP Experience in the Brazilian Electricity Market, The

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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #53, 2005

Newsletters

Encina Columns Fall 2005

FSI Stanford, 2005

Journal Articles

What to Do about Russia

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Policy Review, 2005

Journal Articles

Terror and Beauty - The European Institute for Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism

Bridges, 2005

Journal Articles

A Madisonian Approach to Climate Policy

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Science, 2005