Governance

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.

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.

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.

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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Journal Articles

Pitfalls of International Idealism, The

Daedalus, 2003

Is Military Incompetence Adaptive? An Empirical Test with Risk-taking Behaviour in Modern Warfare

Evolution and Human Behaviour, 2002

Books

Promoting Democratic Governance

U.S. Agency for International Development in "U.S. Agency for International Development, Foreign Aid in the National Interest: Promoting Freedom, Security, and Opportunity", 2002