Er is nogal wat variatie in de mate waarin parlementaire stemmingen verlopen volgens de scheidslijn regering-oppositie. Hoe zijn deze verschillen te verklaren? Party Politics artikel van Tom Louwerse et al.

Op 16 juni 2020 verdedigde Andrea Varga haar proefschrift 'Establishing State Responsibility in the Absence of Effective Government'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof. dr. N.J. Schrijver en prof. dr. F. Baetens (University of Oslo).

Whilst government’s ability to design ‘context-specific’ regional innovation policy is generally assumed to depend on the region’s decision-making power, the aim of this study is to investigate how regional government matters. In order to open up the black box of policy design, the study develops a…

The University of Reading will host an online workshop on 27 April 2021. It is aimed at early career and postgraduate research historians focusing on the area of medieval finance. The deadline for submissions is: 19 February 2021.

The use of increasingly large and diverse datasets to guide urban climate action has implications for how, and by whom, local governments are held accountable.

In this special edition of Information Polity there is a focus on the transparency challenges of using algorithms in government in decision-making procedures at the macro-, meso-, and micro-levels.

Effectiveness and Side-effects.

In this project of the Center for Public Values & Ethics (CPVE) ongoing research is conducted on the history of advice to Dutch central government by so-called State committees from 1814 to 2014. State committees have been installed by Dutch central government since 1814 to provide expert advice, research…

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This thesis attempts to interrogate post-1991-2015 political development in Ethiopia, focusing on the political discourses espoused by the government and opposition, using the discourse analysis method and securitization theory.

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Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: L.B.F. Juurlink

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In 2015, CML published over 70 papers, contributed to the United Nations conference on climate change in Paris, won awards and advised the Dutch government on the safe use of pesticides. CML awarded 11 PhDs and taught students from all over the world how to contribute to sustainability. We wish you…

Can we provide the Dutch government with an integrative framework, wherein the various policies can be placed and the need for further measures can be identified?

This PhD-thesis analyses the relationship between the parties’ choices in the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis’ assessments of the election manifestos and coalition agreements over the period 1986-2017, and tries to explain this relationship.

Remco Breuker, hoogleraar Koreastudies, sprak met de Volkskrant over het geldbedrag dat de overheid beschikbaar stelt om de groeiende studentenaantallen in het hoger onderwijs te compenseren. Volgens Breuker is de 645 miljoen euro niet genoeg om de werkdruk te verlagen.

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Dimiter Toshkov, UHD, Brendan Carroll, UD, en Kutsal Yesilkagit, Professor International Governance, van de Universiteit Leiden schreven een artikel voor de Washington Post over de Europese overheden die snel handelden in tijden van pandemie. En dit zijn niet de overheden die je zou verwachten.

The Institute of Environmental Sciences has carried out and participates in several projects that deal with the analysis of energy systems.

The idea of citizens and public professionals collaborating to provide public services has widely spread in several countries around the globe. Co-production is often presented as the go-to solution for challenges like a legitimacy crisis of both the government and the market, and financial concerns.…

An account of the total of material flows going in, out and through Amsterdam.

Wetlands provide many ecosystem goods and services which include fish production. The sustainability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) has received considerable attention in recent years because fish is one of the major sources of animal protein to a considerable fraction of the global population which…

Samuel Jong behaalt de masterscriptieprijs 2016 van het Instituut Politieke Wetenschap. Met ‘Bridging the Gap: Do Ideological Differences Determine Whether Center-Right Parties Cooperate with the Radical Right?’, rondde Jong zijn master Political Science af. Zijn bevindingen, zijn naar het oordeel van…

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This study attempts to understand how indigenous community institutions pose an important role in sustainable community-based development, including the integration between local culture and development.

The expedition commanded by Nicolas Baudin to Tenerife, Mauritius, Australia, Timor and South Africa in 1800-1804 is fully researched in regard to ornithology.

Indicators to measure progress in de-linking economic growth and environmental pressure.

Het Instituut Bestuurskunde van de Universiteit Leiden is één van de grootste en oudste instituten voor academisch onderzoek en onderwijs op het gebied van Bestuurskunde in Nederland. Het instituut combineert een wereldwijd goede academische reputatie met een centrale positie voor internationale, nationale,…

Developing robust algorithms and theory for establishing cause-effect relationships from observational data that scale up to large data sets

The research provides insight into disease behavior in both rural and semi-urban areas in Serengeti in Tanzania.

Development of GHG calculator for bio-electricity and heat.

Een compacte maar theoretisch innovatieve ontdekkingstocht naar hoe Islamofobie en radicalisering op elkaar inhaken en elkaar versterken.

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Op 18 september 2019 verdedigde Huw Llewellyn zijn proefschrift 'An Institutional Perspective on the United Nations Criminal Tribunals: Governance, Independence and Impartiality'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. N.M. Blokker en prof.dr. L.J. van den Herik.

How to make a quantitative assessment of the relative contribution to toxicity of ions and particles? Is the toxicity of nanoparticles related to their size or shape? Which physicochemical property of nanoparticles is an appropriate dose metric of nanoparticles?

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Donderdag 21/09 vond er een lunchpresentatie plaats in Wijnhaven door Prof. Frank Baumgartner, Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Blijf op de hoogte van de ontwikkelingen van de faculteit!

In 2017 is de European Association of Public-Private Partnership opgericht, waarbij prof. Y.E. Schuurmans, hoogleraar en afdelingsvoorzitter Staats- en bestuursrecht, betrokken is.

Professor Ken Meier is een van de meest vooraanstaande bestuurskundigen van de wereld. Meier is professor Public Management bij Cardiff School of Business (Wales), professor Bureaucracy and Democracy bij Leiden Universiteit, onderzoeker bij Danish Centre for Social Sciences Research (Kopenhagen, Denemarken)…

Description of The Regional Network on the Synergy between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.

What is the population size/structure and distribution of tiger and leopard inside the Bardia National Park (BNP) compared with the population outside? What is the movement and home range and conflict pattern in time and space of tigers and leopards inside the BNP compared with outside? What constitutes…

Publicaties Onderwijs- en organisatieontwikkeling

Corruption, integrity (or a lack thereof…) and public values are near omnipresent elements in public administration and politics of all times. Cases of corrupt public officials and politicians continuously emerge. Strangely enough, however, it often remains unknown what actually occurred, how something…

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Met trots kunnen wij meedelen dat het boek ‘Turnaround Management and Bankruptcy’ gepubliceerd is. De editors van dit boek zijn Prof. dr. mr. J.A.A. Adriaanse en Prof. dr. J.I. van der Rest. Beide zijn werkzaam bij de afdeling Bedrijfswetenschappen van de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid.