Governance Project
The Governance Project seeks to better define and conceptualize governance, and to understand how it functions in two societies, the Peoples Republic of China and the United States.

Program on Arab Reform and Democracy (ARD)
The program examines a wide range of issues covering the different social and political dynamics within Arab societies and the evolution of their political systems, with an eye on the prospects, conditions, and possible pathways for political reform.

Program on Democracy
The Program on Democracy examines the comparative dynamics of democratic functioning and change in the contemporary world, with a particular focus on the countries of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and the post-communist world.

Program on Evaluating International Influences on Democratic Development
The Program examines the influence of international factors on democratic development around the world since the Second World War.

Program on Experiments in Governance in Developing Countries (EGAP)
EGAP brings together a small group of leading social scientists applying experimental methods to the study of governance and politics.

Program on Global Justice (PGJ)
The Program on Global Justice bridges the normative, empirical, and policy dimensions of the Center's concerns for democracy, equitable development, and the rule of law.

Program on Human Rights
The program seeks to understand how human rights can best be deployed to advance social justice, freedom, equality, development and the rule of law.

Program on Law and Economy in India
The program probes key economic sectors investigating connections between the quality of legal performance and economic growth or stasis in India.

Program on Liberation Technology
The Program on Liberation Technology seeks to understand how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote economic development, and pursue a variety of other social goods.

Program on Oil Wealth Management in Developing States
The Program on Oil Wealth Management in Developing States constructed comprehensive data on a series of indicators of oil states' relative success in turning hydrocarbon assets into tangible development outcomes and examines the connection between oil and governance in developing states.

Program on Poverty and Governance
The Poverty and Governance Program (POVGOV) is working to understand the linkages between the quality of governance and developing societies' capacities to meet basic needs and reduce poverty.

Program on Regime Type and Economic Development
Building on past and ongoing work, researchers at CDDRL are pursuing both a macro approach to further mine the ambiguous correlations between regime type and development performance, as well as employing a micro country case study approach.

Program on Social Entrepreneurship
The Program on Social Entrepreneurship (PSE) at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law seeks to actively integrate the on-the-ground experience of social entrepreneurs – creative and determined global leaders, activists, human rights defenders, advocates for gender justice – from ...

Program on State Building and the Rule of Law
The Program on Statebuilding and the Rule of Law focuses on one of the most fundamental, yet often-ignored rule of law missions: establishing and improving legal education in post-conflict, developing, and transitional states.