1,795 search results for “global tax governance” in the Public website
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Social Assistance and Minimum Income Levels and Replacement Rates Dataset
The Social Assistance and Minimum Income Levels and Replacement Rates Dataset, assembled by Jinxian Wang and Olaf van Vliet (version December 2016), provides data on minimum income benefit schemes in 33 countries from 1990 until 2009.
- Research Dossiers
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Writing Global History
Conference, Research Colloquium
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Dubai climate summit: 'Virtually all funds are underfunded'
Dubai is teeming with world leaders these days at the United Nations' annual climate conference. What can we expect? We look ahead with university lecturer and environmental politics specialist Shiming Yang. 'The funding always comes slowly.'
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Building Blocks for the Rule of Law
Legal education initiative of the Leiden University, the University of Groningen and Universitas Indonesia.
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Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900
This book published by Oxford University Press discusses religion and trade in world history.
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WIC-opvarenden (Seafarers of the Dutch West India Company)
Due to the almost complete disappearance of the archive of the Old Dutch West India Company (WIC, 1621-1674) not much is known about the ships and crews of this company. In this project we start the reconstruction of this basic information making use of new digital humanities techniques to extract this…
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Gradients of Europeanness in Colonial Africa: the case of the Portuguese in the Congo Free State (c. 1885-1908) (GRADIENTS)
The project GRADIENTS investigates what it meant to be European in colonial Africa where identification as European often did not depend on skin colour and was understood on a spectrum with many gradients.
- International Symposium: Good Governance
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Digitizing security: How digital risk-profiling is developed in practice
How are digital risk-profiles developed and used in practice?
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Reproducing past, present and future: colonial visions and experience in Asia in the residencies
Reproducing past, present and future: colonial visions and experience in Asia in the residencies
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Career prospects
As a graduate of the BA English Language and Culture programme you’ll be very knowledgeable about a language that’s spoken all over the world and of a culture that’s influenced many other countries. With your ability to communicate and present yourself in English, you’ll be ideally qualified for many…
- Structure and Programme
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Application process and working conditions - Working at Leiden University
Are you interested in one of our vacancies? To get to know each other well, we follow a number of steps in the application process.
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Joining forces for a Healthy and Happy The Hague
Numerous of enthusiastic administrators, professionals, policy makers, and citizens gathered last week for an assembly organised by ‘Gezond en Gelukkig Den Haag (in English: Healthy and Happy The Hague). They discussed a different approach to health, health care and society, while exchanging best pr…
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Koen Caminada appointed Vice-Dean FGGA
The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Professor Koen Camimada Vice-Dean, and portfolio holder for Education, at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, with effect from 1 December 2018.
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Global Impact in Health Symposium
Symposium | Leiden2022
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Workshop ‘Caribbean World Heritage Sites in the light of today’s global challenges: the case of Historic Bridgetown and Its Garrison'
Last month (February 5-8 2024), the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, hosted a workshop entitled ‘Caribbean World Heritage Sites in the light of today’s global challenges: the case of Historic Bridgetown and Its Garrison’.
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Academic Director Douglas Berger: ‘I want to help my fellow philosophers flourish’
The Institute for Philosophy has a new Academic Director: on 1 February, James McAllister was succeeded by Douglas Berger. We asked him about his plans.
- IALF Global Education Fair
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Joana Cook
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Wouter Veenendaal
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jan Abbink
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Stochastic and Deterministic Algorithms for Continuous Black-Box Optimization
Continuous optimization is never easy: the exact solution is always a luxury demand and the theory of it is not always analytical and elegant.
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Gene regulation in embryonic development
The human body consists of hundreds, perhaps thousands of different types of cells, each with different morphologies and functions, despite having the same genome.
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Ideology and Christianity in Japan
Ideology and Christianity in Japan shows the major role played by Christian-related discourse in the formation of early-modern and modern Japanese political ideology.
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Explainable AI in Taxation: Melanie Fink on the Role of Explanation Requirements in EU Constitutional Law
On 10 March 2023, the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) organised the Conference ‘Towards eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Taxation: The Future of Good Tax Governanceon’.
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Mickler, Parliamentary Committees in a Party-Centred Context
Beyond the immediately visible plenum, parliaments are highly complex institutions. They work through various venues in which decisions are prepared or even taken. The two main institutions in this regard are parliamentary party groups, which comprise legislators who are elected under the same party…
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Plan for which VVD is prepared to let Dutch government collapse, caused overburdening of judicial system and violation of children's rights in
The Dutch conservative VVD party plans to make the right to family reunification more difficult for people with temporary residence permits. In Germany, this restriction led to several lawsuits which were won by status holders. Mark Klaassen, Assistant Professor in Migration Law, believes this is a…
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Hall of Fame 2020
In 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.
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How can we support students affected by global crises? ‘These events shatter the psyche of our students’
In this ‘Educatips’ column, Psychology lecturers share their most important lessons about teaching. This month: Sepideh Saadat guides a support group for students who struggle with the Israel-Hamas war. ‘Some of them feel guilty about enjoying life while their family is suffering.’
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‘Politicians need to get a better grip of international civil servants’
Out of sight of national parliaments, the European Union takes decisions that have a far-reaching effect on the lives of citizens. Professor of International Governance Kutsal Yesilkagit calls for more thorough research on how cross-border forms of governance work and how politicians direct their civil…
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Antoaneta Dimitrova in Nu.nl about EU and rebellious member states
Hungary belongs to the EU, but democracy is being seriously and systematically threatened there. Does the rest of the EU have the means and the political will to deal with member states that are out of step? Antoaneta Dimitrova, professor of 'Comparative Governance' at the Institute of Security and…
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Louis Sicking
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Meel
Faculty of Humanities
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Human rights and Global Diversity
Lecture, Opening of the Owada Chair
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Dutch cabinet formation talks have collapsed. What's next?
Pieter Omtzigt, leader of the ‘Nieuw Sociaal Contract’ (‘New Social Contract’) party, has withdrawn from talks to form a new Dutch government. Government finances are a divisive issue, and Ronald Plasterk’s decision to withhold documents on government finances seems to have particularly broken trust.…
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Tirza Cramwinckel wins Stevens Award
'Her publications demonstrate a strong combination of science and practice’, according to the jury. Cramwinckel received the Stevens Award on 9 February 2024 in recognition of her scholarly publications and work in practice and education.
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No definition of extraparliamentary cabinet in The Hague political arena
Following the recent debate on the formation of a new Dutch government, there seems to be no clear definition of an extra parliamentary cabinet. Wim Voermans, Professor of Constitutional Law, discusses this in Dutch magazine ‘Vrij Nederland’ (VN).
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Vaccination policy should respond to the motivations of vaccine refusers
Research by Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), The Hague University of Applied Sciences and Erasmus University Rotterdam shows that about 15 percent of Dutch people do not want to be vaccinated. If better use were made of the knowledge of local professionals such as GPs, it would be easier to…
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Experience Day Governance of Sustainability
Study information
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Management of small-scale -African fisheries: The Case of Elephant Marsh in Malawi
How does the management of Elephant Marsh Fishery in Malawi relate to wider contexts of policies, theories and regions? And how can the current management system be adapted to achieve long-term sustainability of the fishery?
- Workshop: Interdisciplinary Research Design for Global Studies
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Scheurrak SO1 in the Maritime-Cultural Landscape
This project combines and reconsiders all the available evidence of the Scheurrak SO1, and use new archival databases and modern archaeological techniques to shed new light on the material culture of the Baltic grain trade and the Holland shipbuilding industry at the turn of the sixteenth century.
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Financial crisis mainly affected the sale of municipal land
The effects on local government of the financial crisis that began in 2007 are still largely unknown. As a case study, Jan Porth conducted statistical analyses of the implications for Dutch municipal finances. The crisis became most apparent in the sale of municipal land to private companies and households.…
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Wout Broekema on shortlist Els Witte Prize
Wout Broekema is shortlisted for the Els Witte Prize 2019, an award for best Doctoral dissertation in political science. The prize is instated by the Nederlandse Kring voor de wetenschap der Politiek (NKWP).
- Global Histories of Knowledge 2023 - 2024
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Teaching
Teaching is a vital part of CompaRe’s activities. Both in Leiden and abroad, our aim is to educate the minds that will redesign and drive forward the regional integration of tomorrow. We do so by offering multiple courses on comparative regional integration in Leiden, the creation of a MOOC on comparative…
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Unemployment Replacement Rates Dataset
The unemployment replacement rate data set, assembled by Olaf Van Vliet & Koen Caminada (version 1, January 2012), provides data on unemployment benefit schemes in 34 welfare states from the 1970s until 2009. The current data set includes all 27 member states of the European Union and 7 non-EU OECD…