Pudar Draško described the student movement as an “advanced participatory experiment” that chose its candidates through two ...

Christopher Dann argues that 21st-century autocracies sustain power by treating infrastructure as a costly signal of developmental commitment. Analyzing 150,000 global projects, he finds autocracies ...

Ukraine is pioneering a new kind of warfare in which cheap drones and unmanned ground vehicles hold the front line in place ...

His “pressure cooker” framework argues that Putin needs a “forever war” to maintain control, so restraint holds until accumulated political pressure makes escalation the less costly option.

Natália Neris and Sami Sternberg, representatives of Pacto pela Democracia, an inaugural participant in DAL’s Democracy ...

Hakeem Jefferson is an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University where he is also a faculty affiliate with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and the ...

The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law welcomes applications from pre-doctoral students at the write-up stage and from post-doctoral scholars working in any of the four program areas ...

CDDRL’s Democracy Action Lab (DAL) has launched Latin America's first democracy accelerator, the Democracy Garage. The program pairs DAL’s research capacity and faculty expertise with eight ...

The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) is pleased to welcome four new pre- and postdoctoral fellows who will join us for the 2026-27 academic year. These scholars will spend ...

The findings confirm Albertus’ general hypothesis: the average number of deaths per year in a given community during the war was 0.086. (This may sound low, but the violence was heavily concentrated.) ...

In July 2026, the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law will welcome a diverse cohort of 26 experienced practitioners from 19 countries who are working to advance democratic practices ...