Governance and Institutions

King Center Faculty Affiliate and Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Claudia Allende Santa Cruz is studying health behaviors in Chile.

"I came to this realization that nothing was going to work in economic development if the government wasn’t functioning."

Bowles discusses his research on electoral accountability, voter mobilization, and state capacity.

King Center fellowship recipient Pablo Seward Delaporte studies the tension between migrants in northern Chile and the government’s plans to resettle them.

King Center Graduate Student Research Funding recipient Feyaad Allie’s work uses both qualitative and quantitative data.

Members of the Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab work to uncover ways in which politically connected predators of human trafficking often avoid punishment.

Which women become politicians and does women’s electoral representation lead to changes in policy outcomes?

Historical disparities can affect access to public services today, research by King Center Visiting Professor Belinda Archibong shows.

In a country of over a billion people with dense urban centers and sparse rural regions, how can the government prevent open defecation?

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.

Students transition to remote technologies to pursue their inquiries as the pandemic and other global crises continue.