The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
Elections
Scholarly Publications
Geography, Uncertainty, and Polarization
March 2018
Using new data on roll-call voting of US state legislators and public opinion in their districts, we explain how ideological polarization of voters within districts can lead to legislative...
Hoist on their own petards? The reinvention and collapse of authoritarian successor parties
November 2017
What happens to authoritarian ruling parties when they accept democracy and reinvent their organizations, symbols, and programs to comply with the norms of free political competition?
Who Speaks for the Poor? Electoral Geography, Party Entry, and Representation
September 2017
Who Speaks for the Poor? explains why parties represent some groups and not others.
Other Publications
Crowdsourcing accountability: ICT for service delivery
December 2018
We examine the effect on service delivery outcomes of a new information communication technology (ICT) platform that allows citizens to send free and anonymous messages to local government...
Let’s get the facts right on foreign involvement in our elections
December 2017
President-elect Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election and will be the next president of the United States.
The Illusions of Disillusion
June 2017
Three-quarters of 1 percent: that was the vote tally
that Jean-Marie Le Pen managed to eke out the first time he ran for the presidency of France in the early 1970s.
News
Five key things to know about Ukraine’s presidential election
April 2019
Ukraine is halfway through a presidential election: The first round took place on March 31, and the run-off is coming up on April 21.
Macron, Brexit and the Future of European Politics
July 2017
Patrick Chamorel, senior resident scholar at the Stanford Center in Washington DC, weighs in on the geopolitical impact of the French and UK elections in a Scholars' Circle interview. Joining the...
The fallout from Brexit
November 2016
Christophe Crombez, Senior Research Scholar at The Europe Center, and Nick Bloom, Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow at SIEPR, explored the short-term and long-term consequences of Brexit and...
Events
Coalition Inclusion Probabilities: A Dynamic Measure of Party Competitiveness and Cabinet Leverage
November 5, 2018
The paper that Mark Kayser will be presenting is co-authored by Matthias Orlowski (Humboldt University, Berlin) and Jochen Rehmert (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin).Synopsis: Policies are made...
Partnering & Parricide: Establishment reactions to new political parties, and their electoral effects
January 19, 2018
For a democracy, a necessary condition is openness to new political ideas. New ideas are often carried by new political parties.
Seminar with James Alt
January 11, 2018
James E. Alt is the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government.
Projects
The Legality of the European Data Retention Directive in Light of the Fundamental Rights to Privacy and Data Protection
The EU Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC) provides an obligation for providers of publicly available electronic communications services and of public communications networks to retain traffic...
English
Technology Transfer Agreements in EU and U.S. Antitrust Law
Technological innovation and the transfer of the resulting intellectual property rights are indispensable to the economies of the European Union and the United States.
English
Principles of European Integration: Treaty revisions in multi-stage two-level processes
This project explores the revision of the treaties of the European Union using a multi-stage two-level-analysis.
English
Multimedia
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...
Brexit, Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration
March 2019
Professor Catherine De Vries' March 21st talk "Brexit, Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration" at The Europe Center could not have been more timely given the morning's news about Britain's PM Theresa May's request made to the EU to...
People
Timothy E. Josling Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Food Research Institute, Emeritus, 1940-2018