The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
Scholarly Publications
Other Publications
Discrimination and the Returns to Cultural Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration
May 2020
We document that, in the early twentieth century, children of immigrants who were given more-foreign first names completed fewer years of schooling, earned less, and married less assimilated...
Youth Space Education and the Future of the GDR
March 2020
Historians of East Germany often see the state as future-looking, but questions remain about the kinds of futures that East Germans expected.
Global Populisms and Their Challenges
March 2020
“Populism” has claimed enormous amounts of popular and press attention, with the Brexit vote of 2016, the election of President Donald J.
News
All Eyes on Georgia, an Election Battleground -- Again | Q&A with Jonathan Rodden
January 2021
By May Wong || It’s been a long election season, and it’s still not over. Two pivotal runoffs on Jan. 5 in Georgia will determine which party will control the U.S. Senate, as well as the fate of...
Self-inflicted wounds: The Church and dissipation of Christianity in Europe
August 2020
Christianity in Europe is fading. A vague and symbolic identity is replacing belief in God, belonging to denominations, and attendance at religious services. Olivier Roy documents these changes in Is...
Events
The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes: A Challenge to the Mainstream Comparative Approach
March 2, 2021
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the newly gained dominance of liberal democracy as a political regime was accompanied by a new dominance of liberal democracy as a descriptive language....
Geography and the Gender Gap: Evidence Against the Traditional Vote Hypothesis from Post-Suffrage Sweden
March 2, 2021
In many countries around the world, women's enfranchisement marked the single largest expansion in the eligible electorate.
Pre-electoral commitments and bargaining delays in parliamentary democracies
March 2, 2021
During the past decade, many parliamentary democracies have experienced bargaining delays when forming governments.
Projects
European Public Finance
Modern European states have significant responsibilities to their populace, including ensuring that citizens’ basic needs are met and the provision of security, law and order, and other public...
English
European Governance
The governance of Europe has constantly been reimagined, debated, and revolutionized.
English
Austrian and Central European Program
The Europe Center's Austrian and Central European Program seeks to advance relations between the United States and Austria and Central Europe.
English
Multimedia
The World Heritage Bluff: Comparing Vienna’s historic city center with Ephesos
May 2019
Comparing Vienna’s historic city center with Ephesos, Sabine Ladstätter discusses how a consciousness for cultural heritage, apart from touristic-economic incentives and beyond national (in many cases regional) borders, can be created.Sabine...
Elections in a time of fragmentation and polarization: the European Parliament and Belgium
May 2019
As the European Parliament elections draw near this month, Christophe Crombez discusses what he sees as the possible outcomes in this period of fragmentation and polarization in the European Union.Christophe Crombez is Senior Research Scholar at...
How Democracies Die
April 2019
At Daniel Ziblatt's April 11th talk based on scholarship from his recent book co-authored with Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die, he discussed the current dangers facing democracies around the world, and ways of preventing democracy's...
People
Norman M. Naimark Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, History, Professor, by courtesy, German Studies, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution 
Condoleezza Rice Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Political Science, Professor, Management, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution 
Francis Fukuyama Senior Fellow Director, Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science 
Michael A. McFaul Director, Senior Fellow Professor, Political Science, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution 
Saumitra Jha Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Research Affiliate at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Associate Professor of Political Economy, GSB Senior Fellow, SIEPR 
Timothy E. Josling Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Food Research Institute, Emeritus, 1940-2018 
Russell A. Berman Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Comparative Literature, Professor, German Studies, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution 
