Governance Contents

CDDRL center on democracy, development, and the rule of law stanford university center overview 2010 Transforming Governance contents 3 Letter from the Director 5 Overview of Center Activities 7 The Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program on Democracy and Development 11 Research in Progress Democracy 11 The Project on Democracy in Taiwan 11 Evaluating International Influences on Democratic Development 12 Global Justice 13 Human Rights 14 Liberation Technology 15 Oil Wealth Management in Developing States 16 Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy 17 Regime Type and Economic Development 18 Rule of Law in Emerging Markets: India 18 Experiments on Governance and Politics 19 State Building and the Rule of Law 20 Good Governance and Political Reform in the Arab World 21 23 Training Future Generations 25 Selected CDDRL Publications 34 People at CDDRL photo: Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi speaks to supporters at a rally in Tehran on June 19, 2009. credit: Stringer Iran/REUTERS. pg 5 pg 7 pg 9 pg 20 pg 22 overview of the draper research in training selected center hills summer progress future cddrl activities fellows generations publications program on democracy and development cddrl’s mission Improving governance is an urgent global challenge. CDDRL seeks to understand how the different elements of good governance (an effective, democratic state, and a rule of law that protects human rights and controls corruption) interact with the dimensions of economic development (growth, poverty reduction, and improved human well-being). CDDRL researchers use this understanding to investigate the most promising avenues for institutional change and policy innovation. cddrl 1 “We have accumulated a strong record of innovative scholarship that crosses disciplinary and geographic boundaries and speaks to many of the most pressing international policy questions of our time.” Larry Diamond, Director CDDRL photo: CDDRL Director Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow Hoover Institution, CDDRL and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Letter from CDDRL Director, Larry Diamond the center on democracy, development, has shown, the seminal deficits are of security and the rule of law was founded with and accountability. Without effective state a mandate to explain how countries develop institutions to protect citizens, discipline rulers, politically and economically — or fail to do and control corruption, it is very hard for a so. Gradually, we have accumulated a strong country to climb out of poverty. record of innovative scholarship that crosses Democracy has proven to be the best means disciplinary and geographic boundaries and of generating such discipline, by enabling people speaks to many of the most pressing interna- to choose and replace their leaders in free, fair, tional policy questions of our time. and competitive elections. If leaders do not Even the casual observer of world affairs is provide public goods, they face punishment at reminded of what is at stake in the issues we the polls. But even clean elections are not deal with. Look at the deadly crisis of the state enough: democracy must also enable a vigilant in Pakistan, the brutal suppression of the move- press and a vibrant civil society to expose ment for democratic change in Iran, and the government wrongdoing. The justice system economic ruin of a once-prosperous Zimbabwe. must defend people’s rights to speak, publish, It is natural to view these crises as distinct in organize, and assemble. Only then can they causation and location. But increasingly, gover- defend their economic and social rights as well. nance provides a unifying framework for The issues we work on at CDDRL are thus analyzing the varied challenges to development densely intertwined. Economic development and the quest for justice and human rights requires good governance. Just and sustainable around the world. development requires a capable state that can Bad governance kills. When rulers are make and execute policies with some measure preoccupied with accumulating personal wealth of knowledge, coherence, and broadly respected and hanging on to power, they do not invest authority. And it requires a lawful and trans- in the public goods that generate development: parent state to ensure that public resources are public health, sanitation, transportation, spent mainly to advance the public welfare. education, courts, markets, and so on. As Our intellectual challenge at CDDRL is a result, in the world’s poorest and worst therefore to understand how the dimensions governed countries, a fifth of all children die of development — state capacity, democratic before their fifth birthday and most girls in politics, economic growth, social justice, human particular go uneducated. In the wake of rotten rights, and the rule of law — influence one governance, states disintegrate, warlords another, and how they can be advanced by better mobilize, and civil wars ensue. When corrupt policies and institutions at the national and ruling parties steal elections and communities international levels. rise up in violent outrage, as happened in Kenya in December 2007, “ancient tribal animosities” may be blamed, but the real cause is the Larry Diamond, desecration of the rule of law. Director, Center on Democracy, Development, It is often assumed that extreme poverty, and the Rule of Law which engulfs more than a billion people, results from a lack of resources or a harsh colonial legacy. But as the work of economist Paul Collier cddrl letter from the director 3 The links between democracy, governance, economic growth, rule of law, poverty, inequality, and human rights are only some of the crucial developmental issues that we seek to investigate in our programs at CDDRL. photo: Pakistani lawyers protest against the suspension of the chief justice in Karachi and demand his reinstatement. credit: Zahid Hussein/REUTERS Overview of Center Activities The links between democracy, governance, on poverty, inequality, and democracy; and on economic growth, rule of law, poverty, inequality, “liberation technology” (the way information and human rights are only some of the crucial technology is being used to defend human rights, developmental issues that we seek to investigate improve governance, monitor elections, empower in our programs at CDDRL. With the partici- the poor, promote public health, and pursue pation of some of the most outstanding scholars other social goods). We are also pleased that in the world working on these problems; the the Program on Global Justice, led by Professor growing engagement of outstanding graduate Joshua Cohen, has become part of CDDRL. and undergraduate students at Stanford; the Finally, CDDRL has just created a new program annual infusion of talent from distinguished to study good governance and political reform visiting scholars and a highly promising and in the Arab world. productive group of pre- and post-doctoral We are fortunate to have been able to add fellows each year; and the further enriching in this past year fourteen new faculty associates interaction with an extraordinary group of of CDDRL in the fields of law, philosophy, international practitioners in the Draper Hills history, political science, economics, medicine Summer Fellows Program, CDDRL is having and computer science. In the summer of 2010, a unique, lasting impact on the worlds of our ranks will be substantially enriched with scholarship, policy, and practice. the addition of Francis Fukuyama, one of CDDRL conferences and research projects the world’s leading scholars of development have examined such timely subjects as and state building. Finally, we look forward governance and sovereignty in failing states; the to welcoming back CDDRL’s former director, management of oil revenues in oil-producing Michael McFaul, when he completes his states; the troubled effort to build democracy public service as President Obama’s chief advisor in Iraq; the comparative lessons of transitions on Russia. from communism; the divergent approaches to A growing number of research centers democracy promotion of the United States and around the world study the interactions between Europe; the full range of international influences democracy and development. But CDDRL on democratization; international efforts to stands out not only in the quality of our promote the rule of law; the global expansion researchers — and of our University — but also of human rights norms and institutions; in that our programs are highly interdisciplinary the comparative dimensions of the quality of and bridge the divide between academic democracy; the potential implications of research and policy analysis. In the pages that Taiwan’s democratic development for mainland follow, you will learn more about the Center China; the connections between the quality and its programming. We invite you to also visit of legal performance and economic growth in our website for the latest information on our India; and the potential for innovative flows activities: http://cddrl.stanford.edu. of public information to improve accountability and representation in emerging democracies. With the reorganization and expansion of our programs and faculty in 2009, we are now poised to achieve much more. We have estab- lished new research programs on human rights; cddrl overview of center activities 5 The Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program at CDDRL is an ideal combination of theory and practice. photo: 2009 Draper Hills Summer Fellows with former Secretary of State Condoleezza

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