Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law is housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Migration and Citizenship
Scholarly Publications
Human Rights and Citizenship: The Emergence of Human Rights Education
August 2004
A recurring theme in the sociology of education is that schooling produces citizenship or a sense of membership in the nation-state.
Changing Logic of Political Citizenship: Cross-National Acquisition of Women's Suffrage Rights, 1890 to 1990, The
October 1997
We analyze the acquisition of women's suffrage in 133 countries from 1890 to 1990.
From Citizen to Person? Rethinking Education as Incorporation
April 2006
Comparative educational research has influenced the development of the world society perspective as surely as the world society perspective has shaped research directions in comparative education....
Other Publications
Reshaping the Middle East: Winning a Lasting Peace in Iraq Will Take More than Tanks
February 2003
Protesters who marched around the world last week were wrong to assume that American inaction against Iraq will make their children safer or the Iraqi people better off.
Democracy and Human Development in the Broader Middle East: A Transatlantic Strategy for Partnership
December 2004
The report presented here is the result of several months of meetings and debate.
News
Twenty-seven Stanford Summer Fellows on Democracy and Development announced for 2007
May 2007
The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University is pleased to announce its new class of Stanford Summer Fellows on Democracy and Development.
An Alliance That Really Works
November 2002
%people1% - The celebration in Prague should have been more raucous. The most successful alliance in world history has extended to corners of Europe unimaginable just a few years ago.
Erik Jensen and students shaping rule of law in Afghanistan
March 2011
The Stanford Afghanistan Legal Education Project (ALEP) led by CDDRL faculty Erik Jensen recently traveled to Afghanistan.
Events
Is Taiwan Chinese?: Comparing the Experiences of Taiwanese and Chinese
November 8, 2005
Many people in China and the US assume that the new Taiwanese national identity is a political ploy which originated with Taiwan's government.
High Tech Investment Migrations
May 15, 2003
Following the successful migration of semiconductor foundries business to Taiwan, IC design houses are now flowing to Asia.
Projects
Human Trafficking
In 2011, the Program on Human Rights (PHR) launched its research initiative on human trafficking to address the main challenges and generate new knowledge on this issue of international concern....
English
Multimedia
Conflict and Crisis: Implications of Ongoing Human Rights Violations in Syria
November 2015
As the protracted and chaotic conflict in Syria continues into its fifth year, Syrians of all backgrounds are being subjected to gross human rights violations.
Deservingness, Self-interest and the Welfare State
January 2016
ABSTRACTA common assumption in political economy is that voters are self-regarding maximizers of material goods, choosing their preferred level of social spending accordingly.
People
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford Impact Labs (SIL), affiliated with PovGov at CDDRL