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Basis for legislation
Globalisation leads to more contradictions between national and international tax norms. It therefore seems necessary to revise the fiscal legislation. This is not only due to the problem posed by multinationals, but also to changing norms regarding tax burden distribution. Fundamental research on the…
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Africa in the world
The emergence of new players on the world market such as India, Brazil, China, Turkey and the Gulf States gives Africans more choice in who they work with and under which terms. At the same time, African multinationals are choosing to work with regional partners and are thus furnishing old political…
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Early signs for good mental health during adolescence: Emotional Intelligence matters
In a longitudinal study, Eichengreen and colleagues explored how the certain aspects of emotional intelligence impact the development of adolescents’ mental health, thus identifying potential warning signs and targets for intervention programs. Despite a higher risk for mental health issues and lesser…
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Native Neighbours
Local settlement system and social structure in the roman period at Oss (the Netherlands).
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Curious Minds
At the Leiden Curious Minds Centre, our research focuses on the relationship of exploratory behaviour and discovery learning to curiosity and the way children regulate their behaviour and emotions. We want to improve our understanding of how children can and do become more and more the captain of their…
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Schilperoort Park
Leiden University and the Municipality of Leiden worked together on the development of the Schilperoort Park. This new public space is situated in the north-eastern part of the Leiden Bio Science Park. The park ambience is extended into the adjacent residential area, where former medical laboratories…
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Institute of Public Administration
The Institute of Public Administration studies the complex problems facing the public sector in the 21st century, from climate policy to the effects of digitalisation. Its researchers analyse, explain and help come up with solutions to the challenges of society today.
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Research
Research framework CIAS
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About this minor
This minor is offered by the Department of Business Studies, affiliated with the Leiden Law School. Our department employs dedicated teachers from various disciplines, such as entrepreneurship, marketing, finance, organization, strategy and the behavioral sciences.
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BAT: Breaking the Transmission of Anxiety in the Family
Parents may pass anxiety onto their offspring by exposing them to anxious behaviors in novel situations. Just as the parents’ anxious signals lead to anxiety, parents’ confident signals can ward off anxiety in the offspring. This project is seeking a new way to break anxiety transmission in the family…
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Language variation at home and abroad: the case of P'urhepecha in Mexico and its US diaspora
By documenting lexical and morpho-syntactic patterns among P’urhepecha speakers in Mexico and the US diaspora, this project will investigate the sources of language variation. The ensuing online dialect atlas will serve as an online resource for speakers, learners and researchers of the language.
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Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka
Bandura Witharana defended his thesis on 27 September 2018
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Küçük Asya'nın Tarihönces
Karmaşık Avcı-Toplayıcılardan Erken Kentsel Toplumlara
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Children’s Rights Monitor 2013
The Children’s Rights Monitor provides a thematic overview of the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Netherlands.
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Indigenous ancestors and healing landscapes
In Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes Jana Pešoutová presents new interpretations of current healing practices in Cuba and the Dominican Republic juxtaposed against the European colonization of the Caribbean after 1492.
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Creating public value in frontline teams: an empirical exploration of shared leadership behaviour by frontline officials
The authors aim to provide insight into the way in which frontline officials in teams employ leadership behaviour aimed at creating public value.
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Molecular mechanisms of adverse outcome and translational biomarkers
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) remain one of the major reasons for patient mortality and (early) drug withdrawal. Currently, different in vivo and in vitro models are used to assess the toxic potential of drugs in the pre-clinical phase. Unfortunately, the predictive value of this model does not fit…
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EU H2020 RISE Social Media Analytics
LIACS is a partner in RISE_SMA, an interdisciplinary, international network combining excellent scholars and practitioners to enable vigorous knowledge sharing and to develop solutions for contemporary challenges for Social Media Analytics (SMA).
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Leiden University Shi'i Studies Initiative (LUSSI)
Shiʿi Islam
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Retributive or reparative justice? Explaining post-conflict preferences in Kenya
This study adds nuance to the empirical literature that interrogates the link between exposure to mass violence and post-conflict justice preferences.
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Data Breaches and Effective Crisis Communication: A Comparative Analysis of Corporate Reputational Crises
Online data breaches are recurrent and damaging cyber incidents fors organizations worldwide. This study examines how organizations can effectively mitigate reputational damages in the aftermath of data breaches by hacking, through situational crisis communication strategies.
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The project
How safe do you feel when you’re walking around the streets of Leiden? Do you generally feel safe? Are there any situations when you feel unsafe in the city? These are the kinds of questions that Leiden’s City Criminologist Marianne Franken – from Leiden University – hopes to be able to answer. In collaboration…
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Delta-Institute for Theoretical Physics
Zaanen
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Rebel with a cause: The effects of leadership encouragement and psychological safety on professionals' prosocial rulebreaking behaviour
This article examines leadership encouragement and psychological safety as antecedents of prosocial rule-breaking (PSRB) behaviour.
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The emergent artistic object in the postconceptual condition
This dissertation investigates the fabric and the infrastructure of contemporary artistic production.
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Cross-border Claims to Cultural Objects
On 11 November 2021, Evelien Campfens defended the thesis 'Cross-border Claims to Cultural Objects'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. N.J. Schrijver and Prof. W.J. Veraart (VU Amsterdam).
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Primitivism and architectural theory
Subproject of
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Peacekeeping in South Lebanon: Credibility and Local Cooperation
In this book, Vanessa Newby provides the first detailed examination of credibility’s essential place in peacekeeping.
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A Grammar of Mandarin
A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin by Jeroen Wiedenhof combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth.
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Distance-based analysis of dynamical systems and time series by optimal transport
Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel
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The Texture of the Lexicon
In this volume, Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring embark on a major reconceptualization of linguistic theory as seen through the lens of morphology. Their approach, Relational Morphology, extends the Parallel Architecture developed by Jackendoff in Foundations of Language (2002), Simpler Syntax (2005),…
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From respected hermits to ordinary citizens: The conversion of the Baduy, ethnicity, and politics of religion in Indonesia (1977 - 2019)
Mr. Ade Jaya Suryani defended his thesis on 28 January 2021
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The Prehistory of Asia Minor
From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies
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Practicing Decoloniality in Museums: A Guide with Global Examples
The cry for decolonization has echoed throughout the museum world. Although perhaps most audibly heard in the case of ethnographic museums, many different types of museums have felt the need to engage in decolonial practices. Amidst those who have argued that an institution as deeply colonial as the…
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Managerial Networking and School Performance
How and under what conditions Dutch primary school principals' managerial networking activities affect the performance of their school
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Customary law in state governance and the judiciary
State utilization of 'hukum adat' and its implication for the Indonesian rule of law
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ACCESS DENIED! – Girls’ Equal Right to Education in a global context, with a focus on Pakistan
Which challenges exist for girls to effectuate their right to education and specifically getting access to education?
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Counteracting subliminal cues that threaten national identity
A new paper written by Jolien van Breen, Soledad de Lemus, Russell Spears & Toon Kuppens in the British Journal of Social Pscychology examines the impact of the 2008-2012 financial crisis on national identity in Spain.
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Civic Duty
This study offers a new view on public services in the early modern Low Countries and answers the following questions: who provided public facilities in urban communities and in which ways did public amenities change in the period between 1500 and 1800?
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National Culture and Africa Revisited: Ethnolinguistic Group Data From 35 African Countries
This study seeks to partially fill the knowledge gap about national culture in Africa, basing its research on data on ethnolinguistic groups (instead of administrative regions).
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Silva Nova – Restoring soil biology and soil functions to gain multiple benefits in new forests
We will study how inoculation of former arable land with soil (including the microbiome, soil fauna and seeds/rhizomes of ground flora) from old forests along with planting targeted tree species mixtures will improve productivity and more rapidly restore forest-adapted communities and ulttimately result…
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Alignment in Eastern Neo-Aramaic Languages from a Typological Perspective
On October 31st, Paul Noorlander succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Paul on this great result.
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Language socialization in deaf families in Africa
Across cultures, parents help their children master the social and linguistic codes needed in adult life. Recent research on language socialization found important cross-cultural differences, pointing out the need for more diversity for a full understanding of this process.
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Some case studies of random walks in dynamic random environments
Promotor: Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: V. Sidoravicius.
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Village Community and Conflict in Late Medieval Drenthe
This new study by professor Peter Hoppenbrouwers focuses on conflict in village communities of late medieval Drenthe in order to depict a typical peasant society in late medieval Europe.
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The Global, Regional and Local Politics of Institutional Responses to COVID-19 - Implications for Women and Children
The shift from response to recovery is now noticeable as the world moves past the paralyzing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This book explores responses to the pandemic by international, regional, and local institutions, multilateral action, and crisis prevention efforts at different levels of governance,…
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A mosaic of scripts : Arabic script in Africa from a comparative perspective
Taught from primary school to the university level – where new courses on the globalization of the Arabic writing system have cropped up (Abdallah 2014) – the Arabic script, with all its orthographic peculiarities and multiple facets, continues to shape languages other than Arabic, their communities…
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Negotiating Power and 'Constructing' the Nation: The Engineering Profession in Sri Lanka
This project explores the community of engineers in Sri Lanka and their role with regard to three domains of inquiry.
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Hellenistic economic thought
This subproject of 'From Homo Economicus to Political Animal' analyzes Greek economic thinking of the Hellenistic period.
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In This Fragile World Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau
This 25th volume in the series 'Islam in Africa', edited by Annachiara Raia, is a pioneering collection of poetry by the outstanding Kenyan poet, intellectual and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau (born 1952) from Lamu island, once an Indian Ocean hub, now on the edge of the nation state.