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

Underuse of Evidence-Based Therapies

Circulation, 2004

Working Papers

A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

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Global Standards; Global Growth?

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

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Post-Communist Paradox: How the Rise of Parliamentarism Coincided with the Demise of Pluralism in Moldova

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Rule of Law? Whose Law?

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

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Human Rights and Citizenship: The Emergence of Human Rights Education

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

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Moving Up Out of Poverty: What Does Democracy Have to Do With It?

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

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Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: The European Experience

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

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Identity, Social Distance, and Palestinian Support for the Roadmap

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

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Sources of Rationalized Governance: Cross-National Longitudinal Analyses, 1985-2002

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

Separatist Wars, Partition, and World Order

Security Studies, 2004

Books

Effects of September 11: A Rift Between Europe and America

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ABC-CLIO in "Public Opinion and Polling Around the World: A Historical Encyclopedia", 2004

Books

The Future of America's Alliances in Northeast Asia

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2004

Policy Briefs

A New Currency: Climate Change and Carbon Credits

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Harvard International Review, 2004

Journal Articles

Psychology of Appeasement, The

Hoover Digest, 2004

Journal Articles

Russian Democracy in Eclipse: What the Elections Tell Us

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Journal of Democracy, 2004

Newsletters

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, summer 2004

CHP/PCOR, 2004

Working Papers

U.S. Nuclear Posture

Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference, 2004

Journal Articles

Success and Failure of Reform: Insights from the Transition of Agriculture

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Journal of Economic Literature, 2004

Journal Articles

Systematic Review: Surveillance Systems for Early Detection of Bioterrorism-Related Diseases

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Annals of Internal Medicine, 2004

Books

The Rule of Law and Judicial Reform: The Political Economy of Diverse Institutional Patterns and Reformers' Responses

2004

Journal Articles

Why Do Some Civil Wars Last So Much Longer Than Others?

Journal of Peace Research, 2004

Working Papers

Regionalization of bioterrorism preparedness and response

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Stanford-UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2004

Newsletters

Encina Columns Spring 2004

Stanford IIS, 2004

Working Papers

Markets, Specialization and China's Smallholder Agriculture

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Food and Agricultural Organization, 2004