2,591 search results for “political science” in the Public website
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David Zetland
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
d.j.zetland@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9312
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Zamzam Fauzanafi
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.z.fauzanafi@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3451
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Antheun Janse
Faculty of Humanities
a.janse@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2564
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Chie Arita
Faculty of Humanities
c.arita@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Gert Jan Geertjes
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
g.j.a.geertjes@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1376
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Roeland Spruyt
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
r.l.j.spruyt@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Irene Moretti
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
i.moretti@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 6 2829 8870
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Mark Dechesne
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
m.dechesne@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9589
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Soledad Valdivia Rivera
Faculty of Humanities
s.valdivia.rivera@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2947
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Edmund Frettingham
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
e.j.frettingham@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Alexandre Afonso
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.afonso@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9923
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Sarah Wolff
Faculty of Humanities
s.wolff@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2698
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Narrative Science: Reasoning, Representing and Knowing since 1800
Narrative Science examines the use of narrative in scientific research over the last two centuries.
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UnMiSSeD - Understanding Misinformation and Science in Societal Debates
UnMiSSeD studies the interaction between misinformation and science in societal debates using a mixed qualitative-quantitative approach.
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Together we can make an impact
Our mission: a positive impact. Our vision: community. By involving the world around us in our education and research we make a positive impact. We do this by applying Open Science.
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Why do MPs work, when their electoral survival is not at stake?
MPs in the Netherlands are first and foremost motivated by their direct environment, i.e. the parliamentary and partisan institutions.
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‘Do Not Say They Are Dead’: The Political Use of Mystical and Religious Concepts in the Persian Poetry of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88)
The chief aim of this study is to explore how classical Persian poetry and the Persian mysticism that is interwoven with the poetry have been used in the new politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran, especially during the Iran-Iraq war.
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Who did all the work? The hidden labour of colonial science
Investigating the contribution of interpreters, informants, hunters and guides in the making of colonial scientific knowledge.
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Partnerships between police and science in Belgium : fragile alliances?
After 20 years of police reform, Jasper De Paepe and Marleen Easton look back and discover what we can learn about partnerships between police and science in Belgium.
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Get to know Liberal Arts & Sciences: Global Challenges
How do countries collaborate to impact climate change? How does inequality affect life expectancy? How can diplomacy help reduce international conflict? These are the types of questions you get to explore in the Liberal Arts & Sciences programme at Leiden University College through the central theme…
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Get to know Liberal Arts & Sciences: Global Challenges
How do countries collaborate to impact climate change? How does inequality affect life expectancy? How can diplomacy help reduce international conflict? These are the types of questions you get to explore in the Liberal Arts & Sciences programme at Leiden University College through the central theme…
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William Michael Schmidli
Faculty of Humanities
w.m.schmidli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2341
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Arco Timmermans
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.timmermans@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Abdourahamane Idrissa Abdoulaye
Afrika-Studiecentrum
a.idrissa.abdoulaye@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3372
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Christian Henderson
Faculty of Humanities
c.j.v.henderson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4995
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Radhika Gupta
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
r.gupta@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Democratic Secrecy: A Philosophical Study of the Role of Secrecy in Democratic Governance
The starting hypothesis of the project is that secrecy is not always inimical to democratic governance as conventional wisdom has it.
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Applied statistics as a pillar of data science
Data science is now growing fast in many places, but scholars at Leiden University have been developing data science techniques for a long time already. Thanks to their broad-based expertise, Leiden statisticians are currently combining the achievements in statistics with the latest methods of statistical…
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Working at the Faculty of Science
Working for a top faculty? Discover the vacancies at the Faculty of Science and apply immediately.
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Symposium on Political Parties and Government Survival in Latin America
On Monday 4 September, Professor Christopher Martinez, from the Universidad de Concepción (University of Concepción), Chile, was invited by the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law to introduce his forthcoming book at our university.
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EU Erasmus+ Curriculum Development in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
LIACS is a partner in the EU Erasmus+ Curriculum Development for the Asian education system. The knowledge available in the field of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence education will be shared and adapted for the Asian market.
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Blarel, India-Israel at 25: Defense Ties
Why did India develop a strong military partnership with the state of Irael, after having ignored it for 42 years? How could both countries develop defense ties in spite of limited political leadership involvement? Finally, what are the prospects for defense relations as India grows to become one of…
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Congruence between voters and parties: The role of party‐level issue salience
The level of congruence between parties and their voters can vary greatly from one policy issue to another, which raises questions regarding the effectiveness of political representation. We seek to explain variation in party–voter congruence across issues and parties.
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Corinna Jentzsch, 'Here are 4 reasons why Mozambique isn’t a post-war success story' (blog)
Political scientist Corinna Jentzsch (Leiden University) explains why Mozambique is not (yet) a success story.
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New Dutch PM must look beyond national political landscape
In the upcoming Dutch general elections, the focus of the party campaigns is on national issues. Luuk van Middelaar, Professor of Foundations and Practice of the European Union and its Institutions, argues in a column in Dutch newspaper NRC that foreign policy should also be on the agenda.
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Democracy in Europe. A Conceptual History
As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world.
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Louwerse & Otjes, How Populists Wage Opposition
Populist opposition parties are less likely to engage in policy-making behaviour (participating in or directly influencing legislative production) and somewhat more likely to engage in scrutiny behaviour (monitoring and criticising government actions).
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Global China’s New Heroes: Martyrs and Memory Laws in Xi Jinping’s China
Rising geopolitical tensions are causing states and national elites to innovate their use of the past for present-day political ends. This is certainly true for the People’s Republic of China, which prepares to celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2024 amid mounting superpower rivalry, ideological tensions…
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Locations
Most degree programmes at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences are based in the Pieter de la Court building on the Wassenaarseweg in Leiden. Besides this location, some degree programmes are based in The Hague, at Campus The Hague’s Wijnhaven building.
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The Reagan Administration, the Cold War, and the Transition to Democracy Promotion
Robert Pee, William Michael Schmidli (Eds.) This book posits that democracy promotion played a key role in the Reagan administration’s Cold War foreign policy.
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Mazepus, Veenendaal, McCarthy-Jones & Vásquez, A comparative study of legitimation strategies in hybrid regimes
A comparative analysis of legitimation strategies in tree hybrid regimes: Russia, Venezuela, and Seychelles.
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Politics, Opera & Philosophy
Opera, more so perhaps than most other forms of art, is deeply intertwined with philosophy and politics. For some composers this was explicitly so. Think of Wagner’s relation with Nietzsche and Schopenhauer or Verdi’s role in Italian unification. But almost any opera raises, and tries to grapple with,…
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Law and peace in the work of Hans Kelsen
Law and peace in the work of Hans Kelsen. A re-evaluation of Kelsen’s legal philosophy: legal pacifism as tacit meaning of his Pure Theory of Law
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From Wife to Presidential Partner: the Policy Agenda of the First Lady of the United States
In this article, Kuipers and Timmermans analyze the first lady's relationship with policy problems in the period 1945-2013.
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Sustainable demolition of the Faculty of Science building
The demolition of the high-rise building is ready. The remaining debris are removed and the area is cleared. For the demolition, the University applied the BREEAM evaluation method at the level of ‘Excellent’, which means that the demolition operations were carbon neutral and did not cause any form…
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Data Science for State-of-the-Art Blood Banking (BloodStart)
There are around 300,000 people in the Netherlands who donate blood on a regular basis. Women can give blood up to three times a year and men up to five times, resulting in approximately one million blood donations each year. Patients that receive this donated blood are already in a vulnerable condition,…
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Political framing: migration figures
Following the fall of the fourth Rutte cabinet, Dutch Minister of Justice and Security Dilan Yesilgöz addressed the Dutch media about the ‘influx’ of family reunification applications by asylum permit holders. In her view, it would put enormous pressure on Dutch society and could jeopardise security.…
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Sovereignty as a Vocation in Hobbes's Leviathan
Hoye proposes that concerns about virtues of the sovereign are essential for understanding Hobbes's both his political thinking and his political critique.
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Good governance while politics fails
The word bureaucracy does not have negative connotations for Ken Meier. Meier, Professor of Bureaucracy and Democracy, has a clear grasp of the relationship between elected politicians and bureaucracy, or the civil service. Inaugural lecture on Monday 20 May.