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Coalition agreements consistently stray from promises in election manifestos09 October 2018Dutch households, especially those on middle and high incomes, pay billions of euros more in tax than promised in election manifestos. Companies, on t...
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Researchers publish book on public organizations04 October 2018Researchers Wim van Noort, Sandra Groeneveld, Marieke van der Hoek, Jelmer Schalk en Joris van der Voet published a book on public organizations.
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Leiden online course among the world's best21 September 2018An online course offered by Leiden University on the European Union is among the top 50 MOOCs in the world. This was announced recently by MOOC platfo...
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‘Woolly’ King's Speech reflects broad coalition19 September 2018
The 2018 King's Speech was a string of statements containing little or no substance. It was obvious that, in an attempt to keep all the coalition part...
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King’s Speech trending topic at Wijnhaven19 September 2018This year the King’s Speech, read out loud by King Willem-Alexander, was analyzed live again at Leiden University. Scientists, students, and even a ha...
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Meet & Greet with Mayor Krikke06 September 2018Thursday 6 September mayor Krikke came to Leiden University to have a dialogue with students. Mayor Krikke thinks students bring a special atmosphere ...
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From Baker to Added Public Value06 September 2018Thursday 12 July the first Leiden Leadership Lunch took place. In the boardroom in Wijnhaven there was an informal lunch with researchers, students an...
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This faculty is the perfect fit for me!31 August 2018From 1 September Erwin Muller will be the new Dean of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA) in The Hague. What makes him the right perso...
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Ken Meier Professor of Bureaucracy and Democracy at the Institute of Public Administration30 August 2018The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Professor Ken Meier to the Chair of Bureaucracy and Democracy at the Institute of Public Admini...
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‘I now know where the locals eat in The Hague’21 August 2018During the HOP week, new students in The Hague get to know the city, their study programme and - most important of all - one another. In 2018, The HOP...
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‘A politician doesn’t always have to hold the moral high ground’16 August 2018Politicians, public servants and administrators are increasingly expected to be holier than the Pope. This is not necessarily a positive development, ...
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‘I take my students with me up the mountain’14 August 2018It's good to have high expectations of your students, says public administration lecturer Maarja Beerkens. ‘But I don't stand at the top of the mount...
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'How can we make the welfare state immigration proof?'04 July 2018Scientists of the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs research completely different subject, among which terrorism, cybercrime and migration. In ...
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Twelve FGGA researchers take the floor03 July 2018Researchers of the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs work on very different research topics. However, there's a clear common ground in all of t...
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Students selected for INET workshop21 June 2018FGGA students Amber Klompmaker (Master in Public Administration) and Imogen Liu (Research Master in Political Science and Public Administration) have ...