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In The American Interest podcast host Richard Aldous speaks with Larry Diamond about a potential crisis brewing for liberal democracy. Listen here.
CDDRL Mosbacher Director Francis Fukuyama writes on social media and democracy in relaunched publication The American Interest. Read the article here.
"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 strategic premise. The key elements of Trump’s agenda: stoke the populist base, split white from nonwhite Democrats and Independents, and take advantage of a favorable political geography. Since the President’s popularity hovers at or just under 40 percent, a purely Electoral College strategy may at this point be his only option," writes Bruce E. Cain in The American Interest article "Trump’s Re-Election Strategy."
"The normal functioning of our check-and-balance system has been dependent on some degree of cooperation between the parties. It has seized up in recent years as the parties have become more polarized and ideological," writes CDDRL Mosbacher Director Francis Fukuyama for The American Interest. Read the article here.
“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. Even the center’s Americanist faculty members do comparative work, she added, and the “rest of us are comparativists who have long believed that the U.S. should be considered a case in comparative analysis,” says Didi Kuo for www.insidehighered.com. Read the article here.
"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. Read the article here.
On Oct. 6 former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton provided the keynote address at the launch of the Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPi), a new initiative that is part of CDDRL’s growing suite of programs focused on the study of democracy and digital technology. To an audience of over 500 at Stanford University, Clinton discussed the growing threat of cyber warfare and issued an urgent appeal to combat the growing phenomenon of fake news to repair our democracy. Clinton was interviewed by Eileen Donahoe, GDPi’s executive director who is leading the initiative together with Larry Diamond, CDDRL’s former director and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
On Oct. 6, CDDRL's Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPi) will celebrate its launch with a day-long conference and a keynote address delivered by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who will exploring the theme of digital technology, diplomacy and democratic values. Tickets for the keynote address with Secretary Clinton will be available through a lottery system available to Stanford students only. The GDPi program is led by Eileen Donahoe and serves as a multi-stakeholder collaboration hub at Stanford for technologists, governments, civil society and the private sector actors. GDPi will identify and incubate global policy and governance innovations that enhance freedom, security and trust in the digital realm. For those interested in attending the launch workshop for GDPi, a select number of seats are still available here, as well as the program of the day events. The keynote conversation will also be livestreamed on the CDDRL Facebook page.
Rebecca was a 2017-18 Pre-doctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, as well as a Dissertation Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. She studies international political economy with a focus on regulation, trade, and the role of international institutions. Rebecca is working on a book project that explores the origins of health and safety regulations. She develops a theory specifying the conditions under which firms are able to use health and safety regulations in order to block international competition. The theory produces the surprising conclusion that innovative firms benefit from and actively seek regulations that rule some of their own products unsafe. Rebecca has received funding from the Horowitz Foundation and Stanford’s Europe Center. She also received a Stanford Graduate Research Opportunity Grant. She holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Her undergraduate degree is from Princeton University, where she majored in politics and graduated summa cum laude and phi beta kappa.
"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 Global Digital Policy Incubator Director Eileen Donahoe in her op-ed "Protecting Democracy from Online Disinformation Requires Better Algorithms, Not Censorship." Read here.
