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For long, government support for veterans was lacking 24 January 2022For long, the government showed little empathy for military veterans with physical or psychological scars. This is what PhD research by Theo van den D...
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‘New Rutte IV administrative culture will be difficult to create’ 06 January 2022The Rutte IV cabinet is more or less complete. It includes more women than ever. For the first time ever, the Netherlands will have two ethnic minorit...
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‘The Afghan state has collapsed, but the democratic gains of the past 20 years are not lost’ 13 December 2021The international conference ‘Lessons from Afghanistan’ touched on many serious issues and raised several reasons for concern. But it also ended on a ...
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‘The historical pedigree of New Wars and New Terrorism’: meet LUCIR scholar Isabelle Duyvesteyn 17 November 2021Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Professor of International Studies and Global History at the Institute of History and member of the advisory board of Leiden Univ...
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Luuk van Roozendaal wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 2021 27 October 2021In the 2020 presidential elections, voters in several, mostly southern, electoral districts of the United States saw ‘their’ polling stations closed b...
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Leïla Gfeller and Tobias van Brandwijk win Political Science bachelor’s thesis prizes for 2021 25 October 20212021, again, sees a rich harvest of bachelor theses in Political Science. Students have been tackling fascinating subjects—ranging from European solid...
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Human Rights and Climate Change: Call for Abstracts 14 October 2021On 27-28 January 2022, Leiden University’s interdisciplinary seed grant programme ‘Beyond Anthropocentric Interests and Values? Human Rights and Clima...
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Bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2021: the nominees 30 September 2021The thesis is the crown on the work of our bachelor students. As authors, they show their knowledge of the subject that they have chosen. They demonst...
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Lessons from Afghanistan: call for papers and policy think pieces 27 September 2021LUCIR (Leiden University’s Centre for International Relations), in cooperation with ISGA (Institute of Security and Global Affairs) and GTGC (Global T...
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Political Science Master’s thesis prize 2021: the nominees 13 September 2021As a Leiden University’s master’s student in Political Science you conduct independent research and report your findings to fellow academics and, who ...
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Populistist parties use parliamentary instruments differently 09 August 2021Populist parties in national parliaments have a different style of working from their colleagues in other parties. They often vote against Cabinet pro...
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Solving the Pachakutik party puzzle 30 June 2021The Ecuadorian Pachakutik party is one of the oldest indigenous political movements in Latin America. Despite not being very successful at the polls a...
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Why the western world was too late to respond to Covid 01 June 2021Almost all the western countries were too late responding to the outbreak of Covid. Why was that? Three governance experts, including Leiden professor...
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Test certificate could help reopen society, but at what cost? 19 May 2021On 11 May the House of Representatives voted in favour of a law that will enable some sectors to reopen sooner than planned with the aid of test certi...
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Studying Ghana’s civil service 17 May 2021Bureaucrats appointed based on merit are not necessarily more professional or autonomous than those who have been, for instance, ‘politically installe...