FSI Research - Governance

capital hill 2645396 1920

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

Global Populisms and Their Challenges

A white paper by the Stanford Global Populisms Project finds that established mainstream political parties are the key enablers of populist challenges—and the key solution.

Read More

hand holding a phone

Protecting Electoral Integrity In the Digital Age

Today, free and fair elections, the primary expression of democratic will for collective government, are far from guaranteed in many countries around the world. Protecting them will require a new set of policies and actions from technological platforms, governments, and citizens.

Read More

fukuyama teaching

30 Years of World Politics: What Has Changed?

Francis Fukuyama argues that sustaining democracy will require rebuilding the legitimate authority of the institutions of liberal democracy, while resisting those powers that aspire to make nondemocratic institutions central.

Read More

Featured Scholars

cover link https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/people/larry_diamond

Larry Diamond

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science and Sociology

Diamond Full Bio

Photograph of Professor Anna Grzymala-Busse

cover link /people/anna-grzymala-busse

Anna Grzymala-Busse

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Director of The Europe Center

Grzymala-Busse Full Bio

cover link https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/people/didi_kuo

Didi Kuo

Senior Research Scholar

Associate Director for Research at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

Kuo Full Bio

stedman 6341 960x640

cover link https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/people/stephen_j_stedman

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

Stedman Full Bio

Upcoming Events

See all upcoming events related to our research on governance.

Publications

Working Papers

Importing Revolution: Internal and External Factors in Ukraine's 2004 Democratic Breakthrough

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Working Papers

2006 Mexican Elections: A Challenge for Democracy

2006

Journal Articles

Criminal Law: Anglo-American Privacy and Surveillance

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 2006

Working Papers

Defining and Founding Civil Liberty

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Working Papers

When the Wave Hits a Shoal: The Internal and External Dimensions of Russia's Turn Away from Democracy

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Working Papers

The Missing Variable: The "International System" as the Link between Third and Fourth Wave Models of Democratization

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Newsletters

Encina Columns Spring 2006

FSI Stanford, 2006

Journal Articles

The Shadow of Enlargement: Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Achieve Compliance?

The Columbia Journal of European Law, 2006

Working Papers

Is More Better? Evaluating External-Led State Building After 1989

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Journal Articles

Culture and Combat in the Colonies: The Indian Army in the Second World War

Journal of Contemporary History, 2006

Journal Articles

Sovereign Democracy and Shrinking Political Space

Russia Business Watch, 2006

Journal Articles

Curbing Asian Corruption: An Impossible Dream?

Current History, 2006

Journal Articles

Engaging Autocratic Allies to Promote Democracy

,

The Washington Quarterly, 2006

Working Papers

From Citizen to Person? Rethinking Education as Incorporation

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Working Papers

The Shadow of Enlargement: Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Achieve Compliance?

CDDRL Working Papers, 2006

Newsletters

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, spring 2006 issue

2006

Journal Articles

Postcolonial Moment in Security Studies, The

,

Review of International Studies, 2006

Journal Articles

Political Transitions: Democracy and the Former Soviet Union

Harvard International Review, 2006

Journal Articles

Slide Rules: What Civil War Looks Like

The New Republic, 2006

Commentary

Improving Math Ed--Bush Right About That

San Francisco Chronicle, 2006

Books

Ethnic Nationalism in Korea: Genealogy, Politics, and Legacy

Stanford University Press: Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2006

Journal Articles

Extra Rempublicam Nulla Justitia?

,

Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2006

Journal Articles

Southeast Asia Forum Brochure

Shorenstein APARC, 2006

Books

Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade

Cambridge University Press, 2006

Commentary

Europe Doesn't Get Free Speech

International Herald Tribune, 2006