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

Kuo Full Bio

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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

Commentary

Military Reform Going Nowhere Again

The Moscow Times, 2003

Working Papers

Greenfield IPP Database (GRIPP): Based on the World Bank's Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Database, The

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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #16, 2003

Commentary

Staying Power

San Jose Mercury News, 2003

Commentary

Between Restoration and Revolution in Iraq

Washington Post, 2003

Commentary

British Traded Rights for Security, Too, The

Washington Post, 2003

Working Papers

International Organizations and Democratization: Testing the Effect of GATT/WTO Membership

Shorenstein APARC, 2003

Policy Briefs

Addressing the North Korea Nuclear Challenge

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Shorenstein APARC, 2003

Journal Articles

Madman Nuclear Alert: Secrecy, Signaling, and Safety in the October 1969 Crisis, The

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International Security, 2003

Journal Articles

Sexual Assault while in the Military: Violence as a Predictor of Cardiac Risk?

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Violence and Victims, 2003

Journal Articles

Elite Opportunity in Transitional Economies

American Sociological Review, 2003

Journal Articles

Culture of Safety in California Hospitals, The

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Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2003

Working Papers

Internal Organizations and Democratization: Testing the Effect of GATT/WTO Membership

Shorenstein APARC, 2003

Journal Articles

Species of Political Parties: A New Typology

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Party Politics, 2003

Working Papers

Coercion and Risk-Taking in Nuclear South Asia

CISAC, 2003

Journal Articles

National Profile of Patient Safety in U.S. Hospitals Based on Administrative Data, A

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Health Affairs, 2003

Abstracts

A National Profile of Patient Safety Based in U.S. Hospitals on Administrative Data

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2003

Working Papers

Bush Administration's Nuclear Strategy and Its Implications for China's Security, The

CISAC, 2003

Commentary

Reshaping the Middle East: Winning a Lasting Peace in Iraq Will Take More than Tanks

San Francisco Chronicle, 2003

Commentary

U.S. Ignores Putin's Assults on Rights

Los Angeles Times, 2003

Journal Articles

Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War

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American Political Science Review, 2003

Working Papers

Political Economy of Electric Power Market Restructuring: Introduction to Issues and Expectations, A

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Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #1, 2003

Journal Articles

Nuclear Smuggling Chains: Suppliers, Intermediaries, and End-Users

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American Behavioral Scientist, 2003

Journal Articles

Pitfalls of International Idealism, The

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Daedalus, 2003

Journal Articles

Lift and Shift: Moving the Back Office to India

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Information Technology and International Developoment, 2003

Journal Articles

Generational Change in Russia

Demokratizatsiya, 2003