Ultimately, Cayton's research shows that informal, apolitical civil society is a powerful tool for democratic resilience. As one interviewee put it, these groups often "become political in order to ...

New research from Emily Russell, Gerhard Casper Postdoctoral Fellow in Rule of Law at CDDRL, finds that police repression in Assam's tea plantations acts as a state substitute for private labor ...

The Fisher Family CDDRL Honors Program aims to provide an opportunity for eligible rising seniors focusing on focusing on democracy, economic development, and rule of law subjects in any university ...

SURF provides students with a unique opportunity to engage in research training in international relations and simultaneously conduct their own research. Students will participate in several workshops ...

CDDRL welcomes applications from pre-doctoral students at the write-up stage and from post-doctoral scholars working in any of the four program areas of democracy, development, evaluating the efficacy ...

The Stanford U.S.-Russia Forum (SURF) is an ongoing initiative of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University, founded in 2008. It is the world's only ...

Proponents of oil-led development believe that countries lucky enough to have "black gold" can base their development on this resource. They point to the potential benefits from enhanced economic ...

Registration required. Virtual to Public. If prompted for a password, use: 123456. Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to Encina Hall E208 (Reuben Hills ...

Oren Samet is the Einstein Moos Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (2025-26) and will be an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rice ...

CDDRL's faculty, researchers, and affiliates teach a wide range of undergraduate and graduate-level courses to Stanford students across disciplines.

More than 6,300 deliberators from 32 countries and nine regions around the ...

Data & Methods OutRush is based on four waves of surveys. The report focuses on wave 4, conducted between July and November 2024. The nearly 8600 emigrants surveyed in wave 4 include prior respondents ...