At Stanford University, he is professor by courtesy of political science and sociology, and he coordinates the democracy program of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), within the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI).

He is also co-director (in Washington, D.C.) of the National Endowment for Democracy's International Forum for Democratic Studies, which sponsors scholarly research and publications and coordinates an international network of democracy research institutes. In that capacity, he helps to provide oversight of the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program, which offers fellowships, based at NED (and funded by the U.S. Congress), for democracy scholars and practitioners from around the world.