CDDRL News
The third of four panels of the “America Votes 2024” series examined the tension surrounding diversity and inclusion in the upcoming election. The panel featured Stanford scholars Hakeem Jefferson, Didi Kuo, Jonathan Rodden, and Anna Grzymala-Busse.
Stanford scholars urged historical approaches to examine the impact of regional conflict in the Middle East and North Africa on authoritarian stability and dissent.
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At a panel during Stanford's 2024 Reunion weekend, scholars from the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies shared what their research says about climate change, global democracy, Russia and Ukraine, China, and the Middle East.
While many have argued that America has witnessed a shift from disagreements on redistribution to disagreements on culture, Klaus Desmet’s findings indicate otherwise.
This is the fifth and final story in a series of blog posts written by the Fisher Family Honors Program class of 2025 detailing their experiences in Washington, D.C. for CDDRL's annual Honors College.
This is the fourth story in a series of blog posts written by the Fisher Family Honors Program class of 2025 detailing their experiences in Washington, D.C. for CDDRL's annual Honors College.
This is the third story in a series of blog posts written by the Fisher Family Honors Program class of 2025 detailing their experiences in Washington, D.C. for CDDRL's annual Honors College.
This is the second story in a series of blog posts written by the Fisher Family Honors Program class of 2025 detailing their experiences in Washington, D.C. for CDDRL's annual Honors College.
This is the first story in a series of blog posts written by the Fisher Family Honors Program class of 2025 detailing their experiences in Washington, D.C. for CDDRL's annual Honors College.
News of high-level dishonesty and graft can reduce people’s trust in government — and their fellow citizens.
Moderated by Michael Tomz, the William Bennett Munro Professor in Political Science and Chair of Stanford’s Department of Political Science, the second panel in our series featured Stanford scholars Brandice Canes-Wrone, Justin Grimmer, and Larry Diamond, each drawing on their research to address the complexities shaping the 2024 election.
UVA Associate Professor of Politics Anne Meng’s research seeks to fill a gap of systematic data on post-election concessions worldwide by presenting a comprehensive dataset tracking presidential election concessions from 1980 to 2020 across 107 countries.
The program will run from Sunday, July 20, through Friday, August 8, 2025. Applications are due by 5:00 pm PST on Thursday, January 16, 2025.
In her new book, "When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right," Maria Snegovaya unpacks the puzzling dynamic between left- and right-wing parties across the post-communist states in Eastern Europe.
James Fearon probes how authoritarian elites safeguard their power through autocratic constitutions, focusing on Myanmar, one of the longest-lived military regimes in the post-WWII era.
The first of four panels of the “America Votes 2024: Stanford Scholars on the Election’s Most Critical Questions” series examined the changing political and global landscape shaping the upcoming U.S. presidential and congressional elections.
Is the presidential election already decided? Stanford professors weigh during final month
Stanford professors and students discuss the efficacy of campaign efforts such as the presidential debate.
Research by CDDRL’s Einstein-Moos Postdoctoral Fellow Julieta Casas underscores how firing practices within patronage systems significantly shaped divergent trajectories of bureaucratic development across the Americas.
FSI's Visiting Fellow in Israel Studies Reflects on What Lies Ahead for Israel and the Middle East
The October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas has already indelibly altered Israel and the Middle East, and will continue to reverberate for decades to come, says Amichai Magen, a fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
A research team led by Hoover Kleinheinz Fellow Valentin Bolotnyy, an affiliated scholar at CDDRL, has just secured a Stanford Impact Labs grant worth $786,100 to discover ways to reduce rates of involuntary mental health hospitalization.
Bolotnyy, an economist, affiliated scholar with CDDRL's Deliberative Democracy Lab, and Kleinheinz Fellow at the Hoover Institution, has joined California governor Gavin Newsom’s Council of Economic Advisors. His appointment became effective on August 22, 2024.
Fukuyama joins a cohort of prominent public servants whose scholarship will contribute to the Academy’s mission to advance government practices.
Across campus, the Stanford community is preparing for the November election and beyond with an array of educational, civic engagement, and get-out-the-vote efforts.
The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law welcomes applications from pre-doctoral students at the write-up stage and from post-doctoral scholars working in any of the four program areas of democracy, development, evaluating the efficacy of democracy promotion, and rule of law.
The Fellow Spotlight Series is an inspiring and moving series of "TED"-style talks given by each of our 2024 Fisher Family Summer Fellows to share their backstories and discuss their work.