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Presidential candidates advance by being divisive. We can do better than that.
December 2019
"What if we had a better way to select presidential nominees, one that didn’t reward appeals to the most ideologically committed voters and donors in each party?
ARD Conference Examines Authoritarian Upgrading, Popular Uprisings and Foreign Interventions in the Middle East
October 2019
CDDRL’s Program on Arab Reform and Democracy held its annual conference at Stanford University on October 11 and 12, titled “The Struggle for Political Change in the Arab World.” The conference is...
Georgetown Scholar Analyzes Tunisia's "Vital Election" [VIDEO]
October 2019
In a talk dated October 7, 2019, Georgetown University Associate Professor of Government Daniel Brumberg analyzed the outcome of Tunisia’s legislative election and its implications for democratic...
What if There’s a Better Way to Handle Our Democratic Debate?
September 2019
"There’s a better way for the American people to grapple in depth with the issues we face at the start of the primary season.
Playing with Fire on Election Security
July 2019
"If one foreign power continues to shred, on an ever-more daring basis, the integrity and inviolability of our electoral process, other foreign powers will draw lessons and follow.
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 ...
UC Santa Cruz Scholars Discuss the Origins and Implications of Algeria’s Uprising [VIDEO]
June 2019
In a talk dated May 31, 2019, UC Santa Cruz scholars Muriam Haleh Davis and Thomas Serres examined Algeria’s recent uprising, which led to the resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
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...
Trump’s Re-Election Strategy
October 2017
"Trump is acting in manner that suggests that he hopes to repeat his 2016 feat of winning the Electoral College but not the popular vote. What he has said and done to date is consistent with that...
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...
The Most Urgent Questions About the Russia Hacks
December 2016
"The president-elect could enhance confidence in his presidency by endorsing the call of Senators McCain, Graham, Schumer, and Reed for a bipartisan select committee of Congress to undertake a ...
The Dangers of Disruption
December 2016
"In Silicon Valley, where I live, the word “disruption” has an overwhelmingly positive valence: Thousands of smart, young people arrive here every year hoping to disrupt established ways of doing...
Francis Fukuyama on Donald Trump
November 2016
Mosbacher Director Francis Fukuyama describes for The American Interest podcast this election as a watershed moment for our country, saying that Trump marks a break from the postwar consensus both...
Maine can bring out the ‘better angels’ of our democracy with ranked-choice voting
October 2016
"American democracy is in trouble, but with a “yes” vote on Question 5 Mainers could do something significant to begin to fix it.
Francis Fukuyama: The post-truth society
October 2016
Video of The Post-Truth Society "The deteriorating norms of truthfulness and authority that we’ve seen throughout the 2016 election threaten the long-term integrity of U.S.
Mexico and the US: Trump vs. Facts
October 2016
The infographic shows the claims presidential candidate Donald Trump made during the first debate versus facts.
Nate Persily on Trends in Polarization
August 2016
As part of Stanford Worldview's Wide Angle: Election 2016 Project, Nate Persily of Stanford Law School recently described how the 2016 election highlights changing trends in polarization and...
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...
American Political Decay or Renewal?
June 2016
In the July/August edition of Foreign Affairs, Francis Fukuyama, the Mosbacher director of CDDRL, analyzes the rising tide of populism as represented by the current candidates for the US...
Visiting scholar remarks on ridiculing of civilian politics in Egypt
March 2016
In a recent piece in Jadaliyya Magazine, Program on Arab Reform and Democracy Visiting Scholar Amr Hamzawy comments on the growing social discontent with failtures of the military-backed regime in...
Egyptian visiting scholar examines political economy of the Arab world
March 2016
The Program on Arab Reform and Democracy (ARD) at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) is pleased to welcome Egyptian economist Samer Atallah as a visiting...
Former minister of industry of Tunisia discusses country's democratic transition [VIDEO]
March 2016
As part of a talk titled "Tunisia's Pathway to Democracy," former Tunisian Ministry of Industry, Energy, and Mines Kamel Ben Naceur spoke at the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy on March 2,...
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Hesham Sallam Research Scholar, CDDRL Associate Director and Research Associate, Program on Arab Reform and Democracy 
Nathaniel Persily Co-director, Cyber Policy Center, Senior Fellow Professor, Law, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science, Professor, by courtesy, Communication