2,575 search results for “political science” in the Public website
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Andeweg, Irwin & Louwerse, Governance and Politics of the Netherlands
The leading textbook on governance and politics in the Netherlands. The authors offer a clear and comprehensive account and have revised the text to provide full coverage of recent important developments.
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World Politics (BA Major of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges)
The World Politics Major at Leiden University College The Hague examines the big ideas and the powerful forces – political, military, economic, social and cultural – that shape the world at every level, from the global to the local and everything in between. Political conflict is a key driver of many…
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Petr Kopecky
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
kopecky@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3602
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Nikoleta Yordanova
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
n.yordanova@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 3843
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Gisela Hirschmann
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
g.k.hirschmann@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 5062
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Katharina Natter
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
k.natter@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6864
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Paul Nieuwenburg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
pnieuwenburg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1983
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Stefan Cetkovic
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
s.cetkovic@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Staalduinen receives Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association
Assistant Professor Briitta van Staalduinen has received the Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association, Section on Class and Inequality. Her dissertation, Ethnic Inequality in the Welfare State, aims to reconcile the persistence of ethnic inequalities in expansive welfare…
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Utility Spots, Science Policy, Knowledge Transfer and the Politics of Proximity
How we think about and act on the usefulness of scientific research has epistemological and political implications: what knowledge consists of, how it comes about and to what ends. In this dissertation, I situate the usefulness of scientific research in concrete places for knowledge exchange. The exchange…
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Juan Masullo Jimenez
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.masullo@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 3879
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Dimensions of Free Speech: An Exploration of a New Theoretical Framework
In ‘Dimensions of Free Speech’, Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi (Leiden University Institute of Political Science) offers a new theoretical framework for free speech by critically analysing the major justifications for free speech. Kabasakal Badamchi argues for a justification: namely the double-grounded…
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Ruud Koole
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
r.a.koole@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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International Politics (BSc)
‘Internationale Politiek’ is a specialisation in the BSc programme in Political Sciences. It combinEs the core political science subjects with the study of international and global processes and institutions. This specialisation is partically taught in Dutch and based in Leiden.
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Leiden Political Economy Group (L-PEG)
The Leiden Political Economy Group (L-PEG) is a multi-disciplinary network of scholars with a research interest in (comparative / global) political economy based at Leiden University. Our members belong to various institutes and faculties across Leiden University, and from other universities across…
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Anouk van Vliet
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
a.l.van.vliet@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9512
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Joop van Holsteijn
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
holsteyn@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3954
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Jelena Belic
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.belic@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 3879
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Dutch Politics (MSc)
Combine the analytical tools of the Political Science discipline with an in-depth study of current politics in the Netherlands.
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Political Religion Beyond Totalitarianism
The eleven innovative essays in this volume explore the notion that all forms of modern mass politics, including liberal democracies, need such a form of sacralization of politics to function.
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Alex Schilin
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
a.schilin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Hirschmann, Crisis Management in International Organisations
Using the League of Nations’ responses to early crises as an explorative historical case study, Political Scientist Gisela Hirschmann investigates how international organisations perceive and respond to existential threats.
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Opening the Black Box: The Making of India’s Foreign Policy
How is Indian foreign policy made? This special issue of the journal India Review, edited by political scientists Nicolas Blarel (Leiden University) and Avinash Paliwal (SOAS University of London) features a number of interesting case studies that bridge the gap between Foreign Policy Analysis and India’s…
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Tom Louwerse
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
t.p.louwerse@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Luzia Helfer, How Politics Becomes News and News Becomes Politics
Political scientist Luzia Helfer (Leiden University) empirically tested claims about media-politics relatiopns using unique data from experimental studies with elected politicians and political journalists in Switzerland and the Netherlands.
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Political Economy and Public Policy
Many of the big challenges of the 21st century (climate change, international migration, financial instability, socio-economic inequality) find their origins in the organisation of the global economy. Any solution to the world’s big challenges therefore requires forceful policy interventions at the…
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The legitimacy of political power
A fair distribution of goods and services is the most important factor in justifying political power. This is the conclusion of Honorata Mazepus in her PhD dissertation 'What makes authorities legitimate in the eyes of citizens?' PhD defence September.
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Van der Meer, Janssen & Louwerse, ‘The predictive value of polls in a fragmented multi-party system’
Political scientists Tom van der Meer, Lisa Janssen (University of Amsterdam) and Tom Louwerse (Leiden University) analyse polls presented by the main polling agencies in the Netherlands, as well as micro-level panel data. They reach three main conclusions. First, vote intention polls in the Netherlands…
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Politics in the Netherlands
This research cluster is a part of the Institute of Political Science’s research programme ‘Institutions, Decisions and Collective Behaviour’. Its members study the design and functioning of Dutch political institutions as well as attitudes and behaviour of political elites and citizens.
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Dutkiewicz, Casier & Scholte (eds.), Hegemony and World Order
Does hegemony—legitimated rule by dominant power—have a role in ordering world politics of the twenty-first century? If so, what form does that hegemony take: does it lie with a leading state or with some other force? How does contemporary world hegemony operate: what tools does it use and what outcomes…
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Centre for Political Philosophy
The Centre for Political Philosophy (CPP) at Leiden University is an interdisciplinary platform for political thought. It aims to bring together all those with an active interest in the field from different institutes, branches and fields of study at Leiden University.
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Politics of the Digital
Political and social implications of life in a digital age.
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East European Politics
The Center participates in East European Politics, one of the major political science journals focusing on the contemporary post-communist space.
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The Birth of Political Mass Parties
How did parties as political organizations emerge?
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Leila Demarest
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
l.demarest@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Matthew di Giuseppe
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.r.di.giuseppe@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 6757
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Ivan Bakalov
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
i.bakalov@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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International Politics (MSc)
This master’s programme focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of armed conflict between states and within states. In addition, we explore whether and how local, national and international actors and institutions can forge cooperation, prevent political and armed conflict from emerging,…
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Hegemony and World Order - Reimagining Power in Global Politics
Hegemony and World Order explores a key question for our tumultuous times of multiple global crises.
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Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowships at Leiden University's Institute of Political Science
Leiden University invites pre-applications from scholars who wish to spend 12-24 months in the Institute of Political Science as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Programme.
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Bértoa & Van Biezen, The Regulation of Post-Communist Party Politics
This book concentrates on the regulation of political parties in the EU post-communist democracies, and on Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania, in particular.
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Politics, Culture and National Identities
The research group Politics, Culture and National Identities 1789-present investigates a wide range of national political cultures in Europe and the Americas in the 19th and 20th centuries. Instead of only analyzing high politics (the acts of governments and political parties), the research group focuses…
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Terrorism and Political Violence
Understanding the evolving landscape of extremism in the 21st century.
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Philosophy of Law, Governance and Politics (MA)
This master’s programme introduces the student to philosophical issues arising at the intersection of law, politics, and policy. This master’s programme is meant for students who wish to combine a master’s in Law, Political Science, Public Administration, or an adjacent discipline with a master’s in…
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Harmen van der Veer
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
h.a.a.van.der.veer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Hirschmann, Guarding the Guards
It is difficult to hold international organisations (IOs) accountable for human rights violations. Gisela Hirschmann (Institute of Political Science, Leiden University) introduces the concept of pluralist accountability, whereby third parties set the standards for IOs’ actions in relation to human rights,…
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Politics between Philosophy and Polemics: Political Thinking and Thoughtful Politics in the Writing of Karl Popper, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt
This dissertation offers a reconstruction of the propositional contents of the writings of Karl Popper, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt while bringing these into discussion with their performative meanings, such as polemical forms of reasoning, analogical and metaphorical uses of language, and hidden…
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Veenendaal, Does Smallness Enhance Power-Sharing? Explaining Suriname’s Multiethnic Democracy
The smallness of Suriname, according to political scientist Wouter Veenendaal (Leiden University), strongly affects and shapes the nature of democracy in the country. On the one hand, clientelism ensures that members of each ethnic group included in power-sharing arrangements have access to state resources…
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Representation and Political Parties
This research cluster is a part of the Institute of Political Science’s research programme ‘Institutions, Decisions and Collective Behaviour’. Its members focus on the democratic role of citizens and the representative links between voters and politicians.
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Femke Bakker
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
f.e.bakker@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6188