1,228 search results for “israeli domestic politics” in the Public website
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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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William Michael Schmidli
Faculty of Humanities
w.m.schmidli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2341
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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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Alex Schilin
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
a.schilin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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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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Demarest, Are Nigerian lawmakers incentivised to direct public resources to their voters?
It is often said that the links between political parties in Africa and their voters are clientelist, rather than programmatic. The familiar image is that of African ‘big men’, displaying personal wealth while being respected and celebrated in the community for sharing their riches. Yet, political scientist…
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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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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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Veenendaal, How Smallness Fosters Clientelism: A Case Study of Malta
Political scientist Wouter Veenendaal (Leiden University) provides an in-depth case study of clientelism in Malta, the smallest member state of the European Union. He reveals that not only that patron–client linkages are a ubiquitous feature of political life in Malta, but also that the smallness of…
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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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What is the role of parties in local politics?
Political scientist Simon Otjes (Leiden University) receives a grant from The Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant is part of the SGW Open Competition XS, which aims to stimulate innovative scientific research within the Social Sciences and Humanities domain. Otjes receives the grant for his research…
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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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Strategic Interaction of Governments and Terrorist Groups in Times of Economic Hardship
In this article, Tokdemir & Klein examine the strategic actions of governments against domestic terrorist groups and domestic terrorist groups’ reactions to such actions.
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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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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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A Crusader, Ottoman, and Early Modern Aegean Archaeology
Built Environment and Domestic Material Culture in the Medieval and Post-Medieval Cyclades, Greece (13th – 20th Centuries AD)
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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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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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Israel: cyber securitization as national trademark & Palestinian territory occupied: cybersecurity at reduced sovereignty
Fabio Cristiano contributed two chapters to the Routledge Companion to Global Cyber-Security Strategy, edited by Scott N. Romaniuk and Mary Manjikian.
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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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Welcome, new political science students!
Monday 5 September 2016, the political science bachelor’s and master’s programmes kick off. We are looking forward to meeting our new students. And we will happily help them to find their way around.
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Introducing: Honorata Mazepus
Honorata Mazepus works at the research group Political Legitimacy since september 1st 2011 and studies Russia within that group.
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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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Impact factor for open access journal Research & Politics (RAP)
Research & Politics (RAP) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which focusses on research in political science and related fields through open access publication of the very best cutting-edge research and policy analysis. The journal achieved a high score for the impact factor, which puts it in 49th…
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A Commentary on the United Nations Convention Against Corruption
This commentary on the United Nations Convention Against Corruption discusses each provision of the treaty, traces the provisions’ drafting history, and explores their implementation in domestic legal systems.
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Book: The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East
Five questions for James Shires, assistant professor at ISGA, about his new book, The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East. The book is available to order now.
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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.
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Modernization and U.S. Service Programs
The project explores the role of modernization theory in the development of two foreign and domestic service programs: the Peace Corps and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA). The Peace Corps has long been understood as a modernizing effort in a Cold War context, and this project will further investigate…
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What makes politicians work harder? The role of electoral advantage
This study investigates how the tenure of security (proxied by both inter- and intra-party electoral advantage) affects the engagement and political performance of members of parliament.
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Is politics boring and far removed from you?
On 22 May, the Dutch House of Representatives invited one hundred citizens to pose critical questions regarding the Ministries’ annual reports. This followed on from the annual ‘Accountability Day’. Caspar van den Berg, Associate Professor of Public Administration, helped think about how citizens could…
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Belarus under Lukashenka: Adaptive Authoritarianism
In 2019, Aliaksandr Lukashenka marks a quarter of a century as the first, and so far only president of the Republic of Belarus. This new book by Dr. Matthew Frear, Assistant Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, offers the most up-to-date analysis of government and politics in a country usually…
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Japan’s local governments and governance under population decline
In this chapter, Kohei Suzuki aims to provide a brief overview of Japan’s local government system.
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Is it right for judges to engage in politics?
The Dutch State is set to challenge The Hague Court of Appeal's ruling that the Netherlands must stop exporting arms to Israel at the Supreme Court. The government believes that foreign policy falls within the political domain and not within the judiciary. Geerten Boogaard, Professor of Constitutional…
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A Catalyst for Justice? The International Criminal Court in Uganda, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Since its inception, a central preoccupation of and for the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been the nature of its relationship to national jurisdictions. Complementarity—the idea that the Court is intended to supplement, not supplant, national jurisdictions—has been the dominant juridical logic…
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From socialism via anti-imperialism to nationalism
This dissertation explores how domestic political power struggles in Greece and Turkey during the Cold War engaged with the ongoing conflict in Cyprus and aims to demonstrate how socialist parties in Greece and Turkey struggled with the concept of the “nation” in battling for power and political positioning…
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"Entrapment by Consent": the Co-ethnic Brokerage System among Ethnic Yi Labor Migrants in China
Xinrong Ma defended her thesis on 13 February 2018
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Fit for the future
This book brings together contributions on topics related to the Dutch EU Presidency Agenda 2016 from a number of scholars who are affiliated with Leiden University.
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EU Foreign Policy in practice: selected cases from Latin America
Both Europe and Latin America face challenges globally and at home. Conflicts over land and resources have been resurgent in recent years.
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Hans Vollaard, ‘The 2017 Dutch parliamentary elections: A fragmented picture as Rutte and Wilders draw their battle lines’
The parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, scheduled for March 2017, are likely to result in a fragmented parliament and a complicated coalition formation process, according to Dutch political scientist Hans Vollaard (Leiden University).
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Is it possible to ban a political party?
Dutch right-wing political party Forum for Democracy has repeatedly demonstrated that it has no lower limit when it comes to morals. Should the courts in the Netherlands protect democracy by banning parties like Forum? Several legal experts from Leiden University commented on this question in newspaper…
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Changing Patterns of Animal Exploitation
This part entails the analysis of an extensive sample of animal bone (c. 30,000 pieces) retrieved from well-defined archaeological contexts of the early period at Tell Sabi Abyad, c. 6800-6200 BC. It comprises aspects of taphonomy, ageing and osteometry, the reconstruction of the local spectrum of domestic…
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Cohen, The Right-Wing ‘One-State Solution’
Mateo Cohen (research assistant at the Open University of Israel and PhD candidate at Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science) studied arguments articulated by diverse members of the Right-Wing elite in Israel and explains how these views lead to the rejection of a two-state solution and…
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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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UN celebrity diplomacy in China: activism, symbolism and national ambition online
In this article in International Affairs, Saskia Postema and Jan Melissen examine Chinese celebrities' UN-affiliated Weibo activism in the context of China's increasing engagement in the United Nations, which coincides with a shrinking domestic public sphere under Xi Jinping's leadership.
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Zheng Li, Promoting Harmony with Conflicts?
This dissertation focuses on the production and consumption of a mediation show in China that collaborates with the local Justice Bureau and broadcasts on an entertainment channel—exploring answers to questions raised from the mentioned entertainisation, social and political, and cultural issues.