Governance and Institutions
The quality of institutions is critical in the guarantee of basic human rights and dignity. Good governance is also crucial in the fight against poverty. The King Center supports research on the determinants of governance quality and the factors that bring about inclusive, resilient, democratic institutions.
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- Donald L. Lucas Endowed Professor in Economics
- Postdoctoral Fellow | 2021 - 2022
- Postdoctoral Fellow | 2021 - 2023
- Professor of Political Economy
- Professor of Classics
- Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Postdoctoral Fellow | Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence Lab
- Senior Fellow | Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI)
- Faculty Director and the Kleinheinz Family Professor of International Studies
- Senior Fellow | Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI)
- Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor | School of Humanities and Science
- Research Scholar | Stanford Internet Observatory
- Postdoctoral Fellow | 2020 - 2022
- Professor of the Practice of Law
- Associate Professor of Political Economy
- Associate Professor of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems
- Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Interim Director and Executive Director
- Postdoctoral Fellow | 2021 - 2023
- Postdoctoral Fellow | Woods Institute for the Environment
- Postdoctoral Scholar | Department of Sociology
- The Robert K. Jaedicke Professor of Accounting
- Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law
- Professor of Biology
- Denise O'Leary & Kent Thiry Professor
- Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society
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Related Working Papers
- Ribar, M. (2023). Who Wants Property Rights? Conjoint Evidence from Senegal.
- Jha, S., & Wilkinson, S. (2023). Revolutionary Contagion.
- Riaño, J. F. (2022). Bureaucratic Nepotism.