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

Journal Articles

Adaptive parties: party strategic capacity under Japanese SNTV

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Electoral Studies, 2004

Working Papers

Do Sanctions Help Democracy? The US-EU Records 1997-2004

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Books

Nigeria's Struggle for Democracy and Good Governance: A Festschrift for Oyeleye Oyediran

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Ibadan University Press, 2004

Books

Rules and Equilibria: A Formal Conceptualization of Institutions with an Application to Norwegian Agricultural Policy Making

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Role of Institutions in Rural Policies and Agricultural Markets, 2004

Journal Articles

An Unaddressed Issue of Agricultural Terrorism: A Case Study on Feed Security

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Journal of Animal Science, 2004

Working Papers

Values in the EU Constitution: The External Dimension

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

Kernicterus: Epidemiological Strategies for its Prevention Through Systems-Based Approaches

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Journal of Perinatology, 2004

Books

Perspective Paper on Financial Instability

Cambridge University Press, in "Global Crises, Global Solutions", 2004

Journal Articles

Supernatural Punishment and the Evolution of Cooperation

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Political Theology, 2004

Books

Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options

The Council on Foreign Relations, 2004

Books

America's Role in Asia in 2004: An Overview

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The Asia Foundation, 2004

Journal Articles

The Hole in the Whole: Sovereignty, Shared Sovereignty, and International Law

Michigan Journal of International Law, 2004

Journal Articles

Should U.S. hospitals go 24/7?

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American Journal of Medicine, 2004

Journal Articles

Magnitude and Nature of Risk Selection in Employer-Sponsored Health Plans, The

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Health Services Research, 2004

Working Papers

IPP Investment in Turkey's Electric Power Industry

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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #32, 2004

Policy Briefs

Role of Economic Incentives in Securing Cyberspace, The

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CISAC, 2004

Journal Articles

Promotion and Prescribing of Hormone Therapy After Report of Harm by the Women's Health Initiative

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Journal of the American Medical Association, 2004

Policy Briefs

Re-engaging Russia and Russians: A New Agenda for American Foreign Policy

Center for American Progress, 2004

Working Papers

Enlargement Strategy and its Progeny, The

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

The Quality of a Democracy: An Overview

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Journal of Democracy, 2004

Journal Articles

How to Subvert Democracy: Montesinos in Peru

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Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2004

Journal Articles

Putin and the 'Delegative Democracy' Trap: Evidence from Russia's 2003-04 Elections

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Post-Soviet Affairs, 2004

Newsletters

Encina Columns Fall 2004

Stanford IIS, 2004

Working Papers

EU Rule of Law Promotion in Romania, Turkey and Serbia-Montenegro: Domestic Elites and Responsiveness to Differentiated External Influence

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2004

Journal Articles

Sharing Sovereignty: New Institutions for Collapsed and Failing States

International Security, 2004