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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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

Journal Articles

Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States

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International Security, 2004

Books

The “Makhzan” in Moroccan Political Culture

Wijhat Nadar, 2004

Journal Articles

Nuclear Dangers in South Asia

Forum on Physics & Society, 2004

Journal Articles

Stronger Measures Needed to Prevent Proliferation

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Issues in Science and Technology, 2004

Working Papers

Prospects Brighten for Long-term Peace in South Asia

Shorenstein APARC, 2004

Journal Articles

War in Chechnya as a Paradigm of Russian State-Building Under Putin, The

Post-Soviet Affairs, 2004

Books

Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform

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Washington Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2004

Journal Articles

Do Health Plans Influence Quality of Care?

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International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2004

Journal Articles

Impact of Managed Care on the Treatment, Costs, and Outcomes of Fee-for-Service Medicare Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

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Health Services Research, 2004

Journal Articles

Illicit Trafficking of Weapons-Usable Nuclear Material: Facts and Uncertainties

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Physics and Society newsletter, 2004

Working Papers

Reform of the Chinese Electric Power Market: Economics and Institutions

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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #3, 2004

Journal Articles

Learning from Normal Accidents

Organization and Environment, 2004

Journal Articles

Indonesia's Approaching Elections: A Year of Voting Dangerously?

Journal of Democracy, 2004

Journal Articles

Within-Year Variation in Hospital Utilization and Its Implications for Hospital Costs

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Journal of Health Economics, 2004