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Reconciling conflicting interests 24 December 2015
A far-reaching understanding of human behaviour is necessary to get to grips with conflicts in society and to encourage parties to meet each other hal...
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Call for bidders: Survey on internet and social media use in China 10 December 2015
The research project Authoritarianism 2.0, funded by the European Research Council, invites eligible research institutions to submit applications. The...
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Diminishing tolerance in the Netherlands threat to liberal society 01 December 2015
The Upper and Lower Houses of the Dutch Parliament are struggling with how tolerance should best be interpreted. As a result, the freedom in the Nethe...
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Boyd Leupen wins MSc Thesis Prize 2015 02 November 2015
Boyd Leupen has won the Institute of Political Science MSc Thesis Prize 2015. With 'Refuting asymmetrical Kantianism: On the moral standing of animals...
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Leiden political scientists advise US diplomats 02 November 2015
Leiden political scientists Yvonne Kleistra and Niels van Willigen have advised the United States State Department as to how to evaluate its foreign p...
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Lotte Melenhorst wins ICA Top Student Award 29 June 2015
Lotte Melenhorst, PhD candidate at Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science, has been granted a Top Student Award by the International Commu...
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Nicholas Vrousalis elected to Princeton fellowship 20 April 2015
Nicholas Vrousalis, lecturer in Political Philosophy at the Institute of Political Science of Leiden University, has been elected to a fellowship at P...
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MOOC: ‘Federalism & Decentralisation: Evaluating Africa’s Track Record’ 16 April 2015
What is federalism; what are the implications of decentralisation? Do federalism and decentralisation contribute to democratisation, governance, and d...
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Daniela Stockmann awarded Goldsmith Book Prize 31 March 2015
Leiden University political scientist Daniela Stockmann has been awarded the 2015 Goldsmith Book Prize for best academic book in the field of media, p...
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Femke Bakker awarded Peace Research Grant 02 March 2015
Femke Bakker, political scientist at Leiden University, has been awarded a grant from the IPRAF (International Peace Research Organization Foundation)...
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Honorary doctorate for Peter J. Katzenstein 05 January 2015
On 9 February, 2015, the 440th Dies Natalis, Peter J. Katzenstein will be awarded a Leiden University honorary doctorate in recognition of his contrib...