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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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Two captains on a single ship 24 October 2017
Caspar van den Berg was asked by Dutch news programme EditieNL for a reaction to the new coalition agreement and the ministerial team. Some ministries...
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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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A lunch with Frank Baumgartner 26 September 2017
A lunch presentation was given on 21 September in Wijnhaven by Professor Frank Baumgartner, Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political...
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Run for Peace (and support a student at LUC) 13 September 2017
Every year, the city of The Hague and its partners organise the Peace Run. This year a mixed team of staff and students from the Faculty of Governance...
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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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Tjeenk Willink’s uncomfortable truth 07 September 2017
Frits van der Meer and Caspar van den Berg wrote an article for the Montesquieu Institute, triggered by the short essay Herman Tjeenk Willink wrote as...
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Career Service FGGA on Facebook! 05 September 2017
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Interview: Zeger van der Wal about 'Good Governance in Asia and the West' 16 August 2017
On Thursday 28 September 2017 the Institute of Public Administration of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA) organizes the event ‘Good ...
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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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The local lobbying groups and their impact on the Dutch municipality elections 05 July 2017
On 21 March 2018, the Dutch people will vote for local their municipality board. In preparation for these elections, the local lobbying groups are mor...
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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 ...