4,657 search results for “political parties and social movement” in the Public website
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Politics and the Holocaust in Modern Poland: A seminar with Prof. Edyta Gawron
On Monday, April 24 the Austria Centre Leiden and the Leiden Jewish Studies Association hosted a special seminar with Prof. Edyta Gawron entitled “Politics and the Holocaust in Modern Poland.” Gawron is a historian and professor of Jewish Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków and a noted expert…
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Master Class | Factory Girls, Sex Workers, and Minorities: Writing the Marginalized in History
Hanan Hammad and Eftychia Mylona give a master class focusing on conceptual and methodological challenges in writing histories of marginalized social groups.
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Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions.
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New Brexit publication on the protection of acquired rights
New Brexit publication of Christa Tobler, Professor of European Law at the Universities of Basel (Switzerland) and Leiden, on the protection of acquired rights: ‘After ‘BREXIT’.
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Tom Louwerse, 'Improving opinion poll reporting: the Irish Polling Indicator'
Article in the journal Irish Political Studies discussing the challenge of aggregating opinion polls and presenting a method to better model major sudden political and societal events. This can can enhance opinion poll reporting in the media.
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Pellikaan & Van Willigen, Bilateralism and Nuclear Security
Political scientists Huib Pellikaan and Niels van Willigen (Leiden University) use and elaborate on the theoretical insights from game theory in order to understand nuclear security in changing environment. Now that the relations between the US and Russia have deteriorated and smaller nuclear states…
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Joop van Holsteyn & Tom Louwerse, The Dutch 2016 Referendum: Voice, No Exit
Political scientists Joop van Holsteyn and Tom Louwerse (Leiden University) find that the Dutch government is having a hard time coping with referendum outcomes in general, and ‘anti-European’ sentiments among voters in particular.
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FGGA Brainstorm sociale veiligheid, inclusie en werkbalans
We want FGGA to become a place where everyone feels welcome, at ease, and included. The outcomes of last year's personnel monitor and D&I survey show that we are not quite there yet.
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media: 'Collapse of Dutch Government Highlights Europe’s New Migration Politics’
The numbers of asylum seekers and the direct family members hoping to join them were not the problem, says Mark Klaassen. The stumbling block was the housing market. He says the asylum crisis is being used for electoral gain.
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Leiden Leadership Lunch: Political leadership and the COVID-19 crisis
Even though the COVID-crisis continuously evolves and is marked by new realities and uncertainties, we can carefully begin to take stock looking back on the first phases of Dutch crisis management. What can we learn reflecting on the crisis strategies of this extraordinary and transboundary crisis that…
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Luuk van Roozendaal wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 2021
In the 2020 presidential elections, voters in several, mostly southern, electoral districts of the United States saw ‘their’ polling stations closed by the local authorities. In order to cast their vote, they had to travel further or use the mail ballot. Media reports and civil rights activitsts often…
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‘Let politics be the focus at the State Opening of Parliament’
A big performance by André Rieu, food trucks in The Hague and more contact with the Royal Family: grand plans were announced in April to make the State Opening of Parliament (Prinsjesdag) a real ‘crowd puller’. For this year, however, we will just have to make do with slight differences in emphasis.…
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Arenas Catalán and Leijten on social rights at the Staatsrechtconferentie
This year’s Staatsrechtconferentie (Constitutional Law Conference) was held at the University of Amsterdam on 13 December 2019 and dedicated to the topic of the Economic Constitution. Dr. Eduardo Arenas Catalán, lecturer at the Europa Institute, presented his paper Where do social rights begin? Dr.…
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Beyond Friends and Foes: Immigration Policymaking in Contemporary China
On 19 September 2023 Tabitha Speelman successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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New book by Wim Voermans on Dutch political & governance culture: past and present
The past decade, against the backdrop of a fragmented political landscape, has witnessed the greatest changes to the Netherlands since the aftermath of the Second World War. The labour market, the housing market, the energy market, the bank system, the pension system, the healthcare system, to name…
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Rick van Well wins Thesis Prize 2018 Research Master Political Science and Public Administration
Rick van Well has won the 2018 Thesis Prize of the research master’s programme Political Science and Public Administration. Offering an insight into the hiatus of the literature on government-parliament relations, as well conducting an extensive empirical study on the working of local councils, Van…
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Fact or fiction: people with autism are not social
Half the world's population is introverted and comes home drained after an evening of drinks. Their social battery is empty. 'People with autism have a similar experience, but much more intense,' says Boya Li, who researches emotional regulation in children with autism and hearing impairment. Does this…
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons
From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’
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Jay HuangFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Ayokunu AdedokunFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Michael SampsonFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Brendan CarrollFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Marina CalculliFaculty of Humanities
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Andries HiskesFaculty of Humanities
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Mark WestmorelandFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ton DietzAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Patrick DassenFaculty of Humanities
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Adina Akbik
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jorrit SmitFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Claire VergerioFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Daniel Thomas
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Havar SolheimFaculty of Humanities
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Hilde van MeegdenburgFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Tim MeijersFaculty of Humanities
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Maaike WarnaarFaculty of Humanities
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Rizal ShidiqFaculty of Humanities
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Tin KapetanovicFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Toon KerkhoffFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Madeleine HosliFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Matthew HoyeFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Ruthie PliskinFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Haye GeukesScience
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Jue WangFaculty of Humanities
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Alyssa Akkerman
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Wim VoermansFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Niels van WilligenFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Pieter SlamanFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Anoma van der VeereFaculty of Humanities
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Carina van de Wetering
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen