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A program of the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). CDDRL is a research center at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Publications

Comparing America: Reflections on Democracy across Subfields

Didi Kuo

Journal Article

Is America in a period of democratic decline? I argue that there is an urgent need to consider the United States in comparative perspective, and that doing so is necessary to contextualize and...
Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy

Didi Kuo

Book

Political parties in the United States and Britain used clientelism and patronage to govern throughout the nineteenth century. By the twentieth century, however, parties in both countries shifted to...
Has The Top Two Primary Elected More Moderates?

Eric McGhee, Boris Shor

Working Paper

AbstractThe Top Two primary is one of the most interesting and closely-watched political reforms in the United States in recent years. This radically open primary system removes much of the formal...
Regulating Campaigns Online

Nathaniel Persily

Journal Article

In "The American Interest", Nate Persily discusses the challenge of applying current regulatory frameworks to the world of online campaigns and digital technology. Campaign regulations were created...
Electoral Systems and Polarization

Larry Diamond

Journal Article

In an article in "The American Interest", Larry Diamond advocates electoral system reforms, including top-two and ranked-choice voting, as a potential antidote to partisan polarization. Such reforms...

Journal Article

Polarization and Partisanship

Journal Article

Electoral Integrity in the United States

Journal Article

Transparency and Governance

Journal Article

Politics of Budgeting

Book

Solutions to Political Polarization in America

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Conference Report: Lobbying and Campaign Finance [November 2014]

Conference Report: Electoral Systems Reform in the U.S. [Mar. 2014]

Book

Democracy More or Less: America's Political Reform Quandary

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Conference Report: Comparative Budget Policy: Lessons for Reform in the United States [May 2014]