This article examines the effects of introducing proportional representation (PR) in Polish local elections on women’s political representation.

Promotores: S.J. Edixhoven, P.Parent

Promotores: Bas Edixhoven, Guy Henniart

If X is a locally compact Hausdorff space, then a representation of the complex C* algebra C_0(X) on a Hilbert space $H$ is given by a spectral measure that takes its values in the orthogonal projections on $H$.

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotor: M.F.E. de Jeu

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotores: M.F.E. de Jeu, B. de Pagter

Promotor: P. Stevenhagen, Co-promotores: B. de Smit, F. Andreatta

Explore the MSc Democracy and Representation at Leiden University: examine challenges facing modern democracies—populism, representation, media influence—and enhance your analytical skills.

Prof.dr. P. Stevenhagen, Prof.dr. K. Belabas (Universite Bordeaux I)

This research develops and applies a new approach to study Aegyptiaca Romana from a bottom-up, Roman perspective.

Representative bodies for PhD candidates exist at the institute, university, and national levels.

This project investigates properties of quantity expressions across languages from the perspective of how quantity is represented in the human brain.

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Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: F.J. Verbeek

This research cluster is a part of the Institute of Political Science’s research programme ‘Institutions, Decisions and Collective Behaviour’. Its members focus on the democratic role of citizens and the representative links between voters and politicians.

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Discover the MSc Democracy and Representation at Leiden University: a structured and intensive programme focusing on democratic challenges like populism and polarization, with electives, research thesis, and small-group teaching.

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Do citizens care for interest representation? A study on citizens’ perceptions and feelings towards the representative potential of civil society

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The Centre for the Study of Political Parties and Representation (CSPPR) aims to serve as an interdisciplinary platform for scholars of Leiden University for research focusing on the historical and contemporary operation and functioning of political parties and political representation, with a particular…

Humans perceive the real world through their sensory organs: vision, taste, hearing, smell, and touch. In terms of information, we consider these different modesalso referred to as different channels of information or modals.

On May 17th, Arthur Crucq succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Arthur on this great result.

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Review the admission requirements for the MSc Democracy and Representation at Leiden University: bachelor’s degree in Political Science or related field, 80 ECTS in relevant courses, and proficiency in Social Science research design.

The Chair Democratic Representation in the Kingdom focuses on the political relations between the ‘European’ Netherlands and the six Caribbean islands in the Kingdom; so-called Kingdom Relations. Professor Wouter Veenendaal investigates the quality of democratic representation in the Kingdom, both within…

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This project examines how speakers store and process regular pitch variation.

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This article discusses the impact of symbolic gender representation on the willingness of citizens to coproduce.

In early medieval England, there was an interest in the history of the Roman Empire and kings adopted such imperial titles as 'imperator' or 'basileus'. How can we explain this interest and what functions did imperial ideas and the reception of the classical world serve in early medieval England?

Simulating human language understanding on the computer is a great challenge. A way to approach it is to represent natural language meanings in logic, and to use logical provers to determine what does and does not follow from a text. What logic is best to use and how natural language meanings are best…

On Tuesday 3 December 2024 Shuang Liu successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

In design optimization problems, engineers typically handcraft design representations based on personal expertise, which leaves a fingerprint of the user experience in the optimization data. Thus, learning this notion of experience as transferrable design features has potential to improve the performance…

Promotor: G. van Dijk

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Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven

With the emergence of online social networks (OSNs), the way people create and share information has changed, which becomes faster and broader than traditional social media.

This book reveals how one publishing firm's editorial strategy helped to legitimate European colonialism in the early modern era.

China is a one-party regime, yet elections are held for the local congresses. PhD candidate Wang Zhongyuan investigated how the Communist Party uses this democratic instrument to strengthen the authoritarian regime. PhD defence 31 January.

This study links up the concept of place with memory, with the idea of transience and the transition from life to death.

As an artist Clevis is fascinated by the phenomenon of place in relation to beginnings and final destinations.