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Vincent Bakker wins Research Master’s Thesis Prize 2017 11 January 2018
Vincent Bakker, PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics, was awarded the Research Master’s Thesis Prize 2017 of the Faculty of Social and Behavio...
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Honorary degree for Adrienne Héritier 29 November 2017
Public Administration researcher Adrienne Héritier will receive an honorary degree from Leiden University. The award is for her groundbreaking work in...
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Call for papers FGGA Research Symposium - extended! 24 November 2017
Are you curious to know more about the research interests of your colleagues? Are you looking for new collaboration? Would you like to share your late...
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Making policy with big data 14 November 2017
Governments have increasing amounts of data at their disposal. How can big data be used in policymaking? And are governments ready to deal with all th...
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Vincent Bakker wins Thesis Prize 2017 Research Master Political Science and Public Administration 01 November 2017
Vincent Bakker has won the 2017 Thesis Prize of the research master’s programme Political Science and Public Administration. His study of labour marke...
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Rutte-III coalition agreement: never has there been so little democratic renewal 12 October 2017
The Rutte-III coalition agreement has been presented and the commentary is flooding in. Public administration experts Arco Timmermans and Gerard Breem...
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Collaboration in the public domain 03 October 2017
Co-production it is called: collaboration between citizens and public servants with reference to public services. Carola van Eijk defends het PhD thes...
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Politics and International Relations at Leiden score highly in THE World University Rankings 12 September 2017
Leiden University continues to do well in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. For the subject area Politics and International Relati...
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Article by Natascha van der Zwan receives an honourable mention 25 July 2017
‘It was a complete surprise to me to find the Emerald Citation of Excellence certificate in my pigeonhole,’ says Natascha van der Zwan. Her article ‘M...
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Putting the Dutch children’s ombudsman on the map 06 July 2017
In the last five years the Dutch children’s ombudsman has developed into a full-fledged supervisory body monitoring compliance with children’s rights ...
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Can ‘diploma democracy’ be stopped? 04 July 2017
Almost all the members of the Dutch House of Representatives, ministers and government officials are university educated. At the same time, the large ...
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Alumni Public Administration now mayor of Almere 30 May 2017
Franc Weerwind studied Public Administration at Leiden University from 1986 to 1992. Right now, mr. Weerwind is the mayor of the municipality of Almer...
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Is politics boring and far removed from you? 23 May 2017
On 22 May, the Dutch House of Representatives invited one hundred citizens to pose critical questions regarding the Ministries’ annual reports. This f...
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Johan Christensen: 'The Power of Economists within the State' 28 April 2017
This month Johan Christensen, assistant professor at the Institute of Public Administration, published his new book: ‘The Power of Economists within t...
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Team from Leiden wins the Rotterdam100 with plan for more environmental-friendly ships 25 April 2017
Capture the emissions of ships and use it to cultivate algae, which you can then use to make biofuels. This was the idea that won the team from Leiden...