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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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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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Jeroen DuindamFaculty of Humanities
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Noa SchonmannFaculty of Humanities
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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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Ruben Verheul
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Judith PollmannFaculty of Humanities
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Peter PelsSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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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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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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PE_PP talk: The political cost of tax reform
Lecture
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Janet ConnorFaculty of Humanities
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Aleena KarimFaculty of Humanities
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Yoonai HanFaculty of Humanities
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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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Louis SickingFaculty of Humanities
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Chibuike UcheAfrican Studies Centre
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Esther EdelmannFaculty of Humanities
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Vincent ChangFaculty of Humanities
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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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Ellen van ReulerSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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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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Israeli Politics Now
Debate
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Eline Joor
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Anna van Dijk
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Wendy Wiersma
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Debbie Tromper
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Judy SpruitSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Rosalba Icaza Garza
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Sandra MeddelerFaculty of Science
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Pawan Kumar Sen -
Nynke Heegstra
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Fotini Vassou
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Aris Agoglossakis Foley
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Ylva KlaassenSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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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…
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Willem van der DoesSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Student protests in Serbia: Evolution, prospects and lessons
On June 16, 2025, the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University hosted a panel debate about the ongoing mass student-led protests in Serbia. The protests have shaken the increasingly illiberal regime in Serbia to its core and have grown into the largest student protests in Europe since 196…
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Gaza: Humanitarian and Political Challenges
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Call for interest: MARS staff exchange programme “Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective”
Are you working at Leiden University and researching migration regimes outside of the Global North? Are you interested in doing fieldwork or a research visit at one of our partner universities? Then you might want to join the Leiden team of the EU-funded Marie Curie Staff Exchange Network on non-western…
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
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Natasha WoodFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Kenan van de Mieroop
Faculty of Humanities
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Asier Hernández Aguirresarobe
Faculty of Humanities
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Emma KorpershoekFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Justin SpruitSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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