1,020 search results for “contemporary afrika politics” in the Student website
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Veerle WarndersFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Nynke Heegstra
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Judy SpruitFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Emma KorpershoekFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Mira Burmeister-RudolphFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Natasha WoodFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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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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Willem van der DoesFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Deborah OyuuFaculty of Humanities
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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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Kitty ZijlmansFaculty of Humanities
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Arthur Crucq
Faculty of Humanities
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Robert ZwijnenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Janna HouwenFaculty of Humanities
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PE_PP talk: The political cost of tax reform
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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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Bo WangFaculty of Humanities
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Judith BosnakFaculty of Humanities
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Roosmarijn HompeFaculty of Humanities
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Jessie Morgan-OwensFaculty of Humanities
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Hans HulshofFaculty of Humanities
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Olf PraamstraFaculty of Humanities
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Gabriel InzaurraldeFaculty of Humanities
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Boyao ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Luz RodriguezFaculty of Humanities
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Sarah BadwyFaculty of Humanities
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Yra van DijkFaculty of Humanities
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Adriaan van der WeelFaculty of Humanities
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Seraina RenzFaculty of Humanities
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Mathijs PetersFaculty of Humanities
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Louise MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Wim TiggesStudent and Educational Support
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Thomas Bragdon
Faculty of Humanities
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Elodie Hiryczuk
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne van DamFaculty of Humanities
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Dettje BakkerFaculty of Humanities
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Jakub Sindelar
Faculty of Humanities
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Salem Ritenour
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Slavery excuses: 'Cabinet created its own problem by rushing in'
The excuses for the slavery past? It would have been better if the cabinet had taken some more time on that, thinks university lecturer and Atlantic slavery expert Karwan Fatah-Black. 'Too bad they didn’t wait for the results of the study.'
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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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Student for a day at Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Study information, Student for a Day
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Conference ‘Power and Counterpower in Democracy: Multidisciplinary Perspectives'
As both old and new democracies experience increasing democratic backsliding, there is a critical societal need to rethink the design and effectiveness of democratic checks and balances. In this conference on Friday 9 June, the aim is to explore multidisciplinary insights about what makes the checks…
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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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'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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Casper Wits in POLITICO on the EU's China Policy
University lecturer Casper Wits wrote an opinion piece on the ongoing diplomatic tensions between the European Union and China for POLITICO. In this article, he argues that 'rather than shrinking from the fight, the EU must develop a China policy that prioritizes progressive values and human rights.…
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Daan Roovers in the 54th Huizinga Lecture: ‘Democracy is more than winning elections’
In a packed Stadsgehoorzaal, philosopher and Member of the Senate Daan Roovers delivered the 54th Huizinga Lecture. It was a passionate plea for a form of politics thatt is not only about winning, but also about talking and playing.
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Kaare Strøm award for institute member Thijs Vos
This summer, political scientist Thijs Vos received the Kaare Strøm prize for his paper ‘Power or Ideology? What structures legislative voting behaviour in Dutch municipal councils, ideology or coalition-opposition dynamics?' He was awarded the prize during the ECPR summer school on parliaments in F…