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What Does Dignity Have to Do with Liberal Democracy? Listen Now
September 2019
Liberal democracy is being challenged by populist nationalist leaders and they’re fanning the flames of identity politics.
Are Strong Parties the Answer?
August 2019
"Responsible Parties convincingly shows that across many countries narrow interests can subvert or coopt the policy-making process.
The wrong US response to Russia and China may trigger a “new Cold War.”
August 2019
If America frames its response to Russia and China as one of “civilizational struggle,” Diamond says, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will only get stronger. Listen and read here.
Cina and the Global Challenge to Democracy
June 2019
Larry Diamond discusses the Chinese Communist Party’s range of influence and interference activities that target the public, civic, and social institutions of democracies, including subnational...
The Global Crisis of Liberal Democracy with Larry Diamond
June 2019
Larry Diamond looks at the global and domestic threats to the principles of liberal democracy for The Brian Lehrer Show. Listen here. */
Democracy Demotion: How the Freedom Agenda Fell Apart
June 2019
In the honor of publication of Larry Diamond's "Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency" Foreign Affairs are providing past the paywall article ...
Sudan on the Cusp of Democratic Change
May 2019
The West has to remember that what happens in the coming days and weeks could shape the political future of its 40 million people for years to come, writes Larry Diamond in his latest article on...
Democratic Capitalism’s Future
December 2018
"Are democracy and capitalism compatible? Or, to put it differently: What made democracy and capitalism compatible for decades, even centuries, and what strains this relationship today?
American Institutions Are Holding Up—But Are Americans?
September 2018
"The midterm elections in November will be some of the most important in American history.
Ukrainian Emerging Leaders Program Launches Application for 2018-19
December 2017
The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University is proud to announce the beginning of the second application season for the Ukrainian Emerging Leaders Program.The...
Polarized planet & What is to be done?
December 2017
"The problems with our democracy—ever-deepening polarization, incivility, gridlock, dysfunction, conflicts of interest, and disregard for democratic norms—are not just problems of political culture...
Why Populist Nationalism Now?
December 2017
In this three-parts article on populism, CDDRL Mosbacher Director Francis Fukuyama writes about different forms of populist nationalism.
How to Reverse the Degradation of Our Politics
November 2017
"The United States and its liberal democratic allies must develop a new global strategy to counter the power projection of expansive autocracies and to reboot an international campaign to promote...
Taiwan democracy project returns to APARC this fall
November 2017
After twelve years at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, the Taiwan Democracy Project will be returning to its original home at the Walter H.
Looming Threats to Liberal Democracy
November 2017
In The American Interest podcast host Richard Aldous speaks with Larry Diamond about a potential crisis brewing for liberal democracy. Listen here.
Checks and Balances
October 2017
"The normal functioning of our check-and-balance system has been dependent on some degree of cooperation between the parties.
Poli-Sci for the Trump Era
October 2017
“All of us involved with the Program on American Democracy in Comparative Perspective think the demarcation between American and comparative politics is fuzzy,” Kuo said -- hence the program's name...
Is There a Crisis of Liberal Democracy?
October 2017
"We have entered a new era in which two great-power adversaries are threatening our democratic way of life with great subtlety and sophistication," writes Larry Diamond for The American Interest....
Protecting democracy from online disinformation requires better algorithms, not censorship
August 2017
*/ "New laws in democratic countries that force social media platforms to remove disinformation will encourage autocratic countries to do the same, with devastating effects on human rights," writes...
Inaugural cohort of Ukrainian Emerging Leaders selected
July 2017
*/ OLEKSANDRA MATVIICHUKCenter for Civil LibertiesOleksandra Matviichuk is a human rights defender who works on issues in Ukraine and the OSCE region.
I still believe in progress
June 2017
"The year 2017 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of one of Francis Fukuyama’s most famous works, The End of History and the Last Man, which argued that the worldwide spread of liberal...
Deliberative Democracy in Mongolia
April 2017
Gombojavyn Zandanshatar, Mongolia's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade from 2009 to 2012, and currently a member of the Mongolian parliament, was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Center on...
The appeal of authoritarianism: Has democracy had its day?
April 2017
"What is behind democracy’s seeming decline? What is fuelling the widespread appeal of authoritarianism?
Afghanistan: When the Price of Education is Life
April 2017
Erik Jensen is professor of the practice, director of the Rule of Law Program at Stanford Law School, and affiliated core faculty member at CDDRL.
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Didi Kuo Senior Research Scholar, CDDRL, Associate Director for Research, CDDRL Academic Research & Program Manager, American Democracy in Comparative Perspective 
