Governance and Institutions
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Q&A with King Center Predoctoral Fellow Ei Thandar Myint
Former predoctoral fellow Myint discusses her research with King Center faculty affiliates and her overall experience as part of the inaugural cohort in the program.
September 05, 2023
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Q&A with King Center Predoctoral Fellow Diego Tocre
Tocre discusses his experience and research projects as an inaugural member of the King Center's Predoctoral Research Fellows Program.
August 01, 2023
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Q&A with King Center Postdoctoral Fellow Juan Felipe Riaño
Riaño discusses his research in political economy, namely bureaucratic nepotism and the politics of state capacity building.
June 20, 2023
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Bureaucratic nepotism: Evidence from Colombia
Postdoc Juan Felipe Riaño writes in VoxDev that family ties to non-elected bureaucrats distort public employment outcomes, and standard anti-nepotism policies are ineffective.
April 25, 2023
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Tackling the problem of pharmaceutical adherence
King Center Faculty Affiliate and Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Claudia Allende Santa Cruz is studying health behaviors in Chile.
February 13, 2023
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The Logic of Governance in China | A conversation with Xueguang Zhou
Professor Xueguang Zhou talks about his new book that sets out to answer this question, 'The Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach'.
December 13, 2022
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Faculty Voices - Katherine Casey, Associate Professor of Political Economy
"I came to this realization that nothing was going to work in economic development if the government wasn’t functioning."
December 02, 2022
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Q&A with King Center Postdoctoral Fellow Jeremy Bowles
Bowles discusses his research on electoral accountability, voter mobilization, and state capacity.
November 28, 2022
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Rethinking asylum
King Center fellowship recipient Pablo Seward Delaporte studies the tension between migrants in northern Chile and the government’s plans to resettle them.
October 24, 2022
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Examining the marginalization of Muslims in India
King Center Graduate Student Research Funding recipient Feyaad Allie’s work uses both qualitative and quantitative data.
September 26, 2022
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Investigation into the ‘dirty list’ of slave labor in Brazil focus of prize-winning thesis
Members of the Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab work to uncover ways in which politically connected predators of human trafficking often avoid punishment.
June 09, 2022
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Stanford undergraduate student studies how social groups motivate political participation in India
Which women become politicians and does women’s electoral representation lead to changes in policy outcomes?
April 11, 2022
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Belinda Archibong on the historical roots of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa
Historical disparities can affect access to public services today, research by King Center Visiting Professor Belinda Archibong shows.
March 18, 2022
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Transforming India’s sanitation policy and practice
In a country of over a billion people with dense urban centers and sparse rural regions, how can the government prevent open defecation?
February 19, 2022
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Q&A with King Center Postdoctoral Fellow Augustin Bergeron
Bergeron discusses his research on tax collection and social ties in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as his time spent at the King Center.
January 27, 2022
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King Center graduate student researchers pause, then persist in the face of COVID-19 pandemic
Students transition to remote technologies to pursue their inquiries as the pandemic and other global crises continue.
December 01, 2021
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China's new carbon market aims to substantially reduce its emissions. Here's how
Faculty Affiliate Lawrence Goulder writes for the World Economic Forum about China's new carbon market, the world's largest.
November 09, 2021
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Many more Africans are migrating within Africa than to Europe
A new study by the Immigration Policy Lab shows that some governments are trying to make moving easier within Africa.
October 30, 2021
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Timing is everything: Stanford researchers reveal why the right sequence of policies is essential to slow deforestation
Policy interventions to stop deforestation are most effective when enacted in a certain order, according to a new Stanford study.
October 27, 2021
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Do voters hold politicians accountable for vote-buying?
Research in Kenya by Faculty Affiliate Dana Foarta shows that when voters receive payments, politicians are given greater leniency, and in turn steal more.
October 20, 2021