1,042 search results for “informal politics” in the Student website
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Mayke KaagAfrican Studies Centre
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Wybrigje de VriesFaculty of Science
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Frits Meijerink
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Tin KapetanovicFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Tom BuitelaarFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Reza Shaker ArdekaniSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Ratna Saptari Soetikno Slamet
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Bart VerheijenFaculty of Humanities
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Jiyan IlbrinkFaculty of Humanities
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Jorge Duran SolorzanoFaculty of Humanities
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Ruben RosFaculty of Humanities
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Marina TerkourafiFaculty of Humanities
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Sarah SchraderFaculty of Archaeology
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'The show must go on, but making politics less tedious is an almost effortless job these days!'
After almost a year of working from home during this Covid pandemic, Scientific Director Paul Nieuwenburg conveys how the Institute of Political Science is sailing through waves and lockdowns: from transformation to bi location to 'non location', from teaching on the beach to teaching to 'black cubes'…
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Interview Tom Theuns in IQ Magazine: “NATO Resembles a House of Cards”
The rise of authoritarianism, the strengthening of the radical right, and the role of the EU in defending democracy—these are just a few of the issues causing concern today. Is the EU capable of defending democratic values within the Union and beyond its borders? In an interview from the Lithuanian…
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Antonella MaielloFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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How science informs policy: ‘As a researcher, my work only becomes truly relevant once it is used in society’
Green cities and a well-protected food system: Roy Remme and Oliver Taherzadeh study ways to achieve these. But how can their scientific findings lead to societal change? They share their experiences with science-policy initiatives.
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Sara Polak: 'I want to know if what social media is doing to the political game in the US is unique'
Political games have existed throughout history, but what is the role of 'play' in the way the American political world has developed? University lecturer Sara Polak has received an ERC Starting Grant to investigate this.
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‘Vastgelopen formatie te wijten aan afrekencultuur'
Expert in public affairs and politics Arco Timmermans advised the informer Kim Putters.
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Protecting Democracy in Europe: Tom Theuns Presents His New Book at the European Parliament
On 10 December 2024, the European Parliament played host to an insightful presentation of ‘Protecting Democracy in Europe: Pluralism, Autocracy, and the Future of the EU’, the new book by Tom Theuns, Assistant Professor at Leiden University. Hosted by MEP Thijs Reuten (PvdA/S&D) and his team, the event…
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Yasco HorsmanFaculty of Humanities
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Johan ChristensenFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Mark RutgersFaculty of Humanities
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Transforming Society: 'Oligarchic Rivalry: US–China Tariffs and the Global Politics of Inequality'
In a new Transforming Society article, Salvador Santino Regilme, Associate Professor and Chair of the International Relations Program at Leiden University, critiques the Trump administration’s US–China tariff war as a covert instrument of domestic class warfare.
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Jeanne VietSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Jay HuangFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Madeleine HosliFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Toon KerkhoffFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Clare FenwickFaculty of Law
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Anna NotsuSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Leiden researchers explain shock PVV victory
Geert Wilders and his PVV party have won the 2023 elections. What was the deciding factor for this victory?
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system was supposed to elevate the colony, but turned out to be token politics
In the late 19th century, the Dutch government introduced a tax system in the Dutch East Indies, with the intention of transforming the colony into a modern state. PhD student Maarten Manse wrote his thesis on this development and discovered how grandiloquent colonial ideals became bogged down in daily…
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‘New Rutte IV administrative culture will be difficult to create’
The Rutte IV cabinet is more or less complete. It includes more women than ever. For the first time ever, the Netherlands will have two ethnic minority ministers, and ministers without political experience but with plenty of professional expertise will also be making their debut. However, political…
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Noa SchonmannFaculty of Humanities
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PE_PP talk: The political cost of tax reform
Lecture
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Adina Akbik wins Student-led Teaching Award
This September, Adina Akbik received the Political Science Teaching Award at Leiden University. Created by student members of the Bachelor's and Master's Programme Committees (OLC), the award recognises remarkable teaching at the Institute. Akbik was chosen from five finalists after receiving several…
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Just to be sure... At any cost?
Security seems to most people a basic necessity of life, a prerequisite for a good life. But if you think about it a little longer and deeper, as political philosopher Josette Daemen has done, you realise that security sometimes comes at the expense of other important goods, such as freedom and equality.…
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Alumnus teaching at a Texan university: pizza, guns and heated debate in the lecture theatre
Americans are electing a new president in November but they also have other choices to make in the polling booth. Alumnus Sanne Rijkhoff works at a Texas university and is trying to help make students more aware of the elections.
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Solving the Pachakutik party puzzle
The Ecuadorian Pachakutik party is one of the oldest indigenous political movements in Latin America. Despite not being very successful at the polls and hardly having organisational resources at its disposal, Pachakutik is still part of Ecuador’s political landscape. In her dissertation, Political Scientist…
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Ruben Verheul
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Fotini Vassou
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Eldad Vainstoc
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Tilko Arne Swalve
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Thomas ScarffSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Peter PelsSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Havar SolheimFaculty of Humanities
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Judith PollmannFaculty of Humanities
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Religion as political tool: the influence of Christian Zionism in the US
Lecture, Actualiteitencollege Den Haag
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'We are already going to see this effect of the coalition agreement in the coming weeks'
Few details, relatively few words. The coalition agreement presented is one of the shortest in the past 20 years, Arco Timmermans knows. Consequently, the outlines were not negotiated for very long, which has its advantages and disadvantages. 'Over the next few weeks, we are mainly going to see the…
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Daphny Ulje-KouerAdministrative Shared Service Centre