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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Upcoming Events

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Publications

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

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

Working Papers

European Neighbourhood Policy: Legal and Institutional Issues, The

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

Reengaging Russia: A New Agenda

Current History, 2004

Working Papers

Ruling Parties and Durable Authoritarianism

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

State Militarism and Its Legacies: Why Military Reform Has Failed in Russia

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International Security, 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

Testimonies

Disrupting Terrorist Travel: Safeguarding America's Borders Through Information Sharing

U.S. House of Representatives, 2004

Working Papers

South Asia and the Nuclear Future: Rethinking the Causes and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation

CISAC, 2004

Working Papers

Equality and Difference: Regional Courts and Women's Human Rights

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

Misunderestimating Terrorism

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Foreign Affairs, 2004

Working Papers

The Quality of Democracy

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Working Papers

Reestablishing the Judicial System in Afghanistan

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Journal Articles

Translating research into practice: organizational issues in implementing automated decision support for hypertension in three medical centers

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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2004

Working Papers

Sovereignty Relinquished: Explaining Commitment to the International Human Rights Covenants, 1966-1999

CDDRL Working Papers, 2004

Commentary

Proposition 69 Could Threaten Privacy of DNA

San Francisco Chronicle, 2004

Books

Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles For Water and Power

Cornell University Press, 2004

Journal Articles

Underuse of Evidence-Based Therapies

Circulation, 2004

Working Papers

Identity, Social Distance, and Palestinian Support for the Roadmap

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CDDRL Working Papers, 2004