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State-building
Scholarly Publications
New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan
January 2014
New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan takes a creative and comparative view of the new challenges and dynamics confronting these maturing democracies.Numerous works deal with...
Authoritarian State Building in the Middle East: From Durability to Revolution
February 2011
What accounts for variation in the durability of authoritarian regimes in the post-colonial Middle East? This working paper presents a new explanation that underscores how the geopolitical...
Is More Better? Evaluating External-Led State Building After 1989
April 2006
External-led state building is at the forefront of international security governance; it has been called "a growth industry"; and it is, against the backdrop of the US-led intervention in Iraq,...
Other Publications
Luxury or Priority? Ethiopia Wants a Light Rail
February 2019
The Ethiopian government is planning on constructing the country’s first light rail in its capital city Addis Ababa.
Administrative Decentralization in Peru
April 2015
Alejandro Toledo’s election as Peru’s first indigenous president, in 2001, symbolized increased political participation to people who were also “from the provinces” or the rural countryside....
Turning the Tide: The Johannesburg Development Agency and its Role in Revitalizing the Inner City
April 2015
Driving economic growth: As a mid-level government official, how do you make progress in difficult political environments?
News
The New Yorker: Reforming Ukraine after the revolutions
August 2016
Joshua Yaffa writes in the September issue of The New Yorker magazine about the phenomenon of Ukrainian journalists Sergii Leshchenko and Mustafa Nayyem becoming politicians.
Introducing CDDRL's incoming pre- and postdoctoral fellows
August 2016
Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) is proud to announce our four incoming fellows who will be joining us in the 2016-2017 academic year to develop...
Democratic vitality in Latin America
July 2016
Larry Diamond writes for online magazine The Cipher Brief how the extended period of democracy has not brought a dramatic deepening of democratic norms in Latin America countries. Read the full...
Events
The Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab World
April 13, 2016
AbstractIn this talk Joseph Sassoon discusses his recently released book Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Baghdad's Deep Dilemma: Sectarianism and Urban Segregation under Occupation
February 3, 2016
AbstractThe sectarian-based segregation that has shaped urbanism in Baghdad is a direct outcome of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.
The potential and challenges of customer feedback in the public sector
January 29, 2016
AbstractThis talk will present the Pakistan Citizen Feedback Monitoring Program (CFMP), which, leveraging the ubiquitous presence of ordinary cell phones, aims to fight petty corruption, improve...
Projects
Experiments in Governance in Developing Countries Project (EGAP)
Policymakers, funding agencies, and implementing organizations are increasingly focused on identifying the most effective strategies for promoting development.
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State Building and the Rule of Law
The establishment of rule of law is an integral component of state development.
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Law and Economy in India
India, the world's largest democracy, is a country of contrasts. Not the least among these is the tremendous economic diversity of India's states.
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People
Saumitra Jha Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Research Affiliate at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Associate Professor of Political Economy, GSB Senior Fellow, SIEPR 
Michael Bennon Research Scholar, CDDRL Program Manager, Global Infrastructure Policy Research Initiative 
Francis Fukuyama Senior Fellow Director, Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science 