834 search results for “politics in venezuelan” in the Public website
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to ordinary citizens: The conversion of the Baduy, ethnicity, and politics of religion in Indonesia (1977 - 2019)
Mr. Ade Jaya Suryani defended his thesis on 28 January 2021
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Corinna Jentzsch, 'Here are 4 reasons why Mozambique isn’t a post-war success story' (blog)
Political scientist Corinna Jentzsch (Leiden University) explains why Mozambique is not (yet) a success story.
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Midterm elections: surprising results, or not so much?
In the midterm elections in the United States on 6 November, the Democrats won the majority in the House of Representatives, thus regaining control of the House over the Republicans. But the Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate. Three of our researchers, experts on US politics, share their…
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Stefan ThewissenFaculty of Law
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Hirad RezaiejooFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Jonathan LondonFaculty of Humanities
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Siddharth DivakaruniSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Democracy in Europe. A Conceptual History
As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world.
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Soledad Valdivia RiveraFaculty of Humanities
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The Reagan Administration, the Cold War, and the Transition to Democracy Promotion
Robert Pee, William Michael Schmidli (Eds.) This book posits that democracy promotion played a key role in the Reagan administration’s Cold War foreign policy.
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Congruence between voters and parties: The role of party‐level issue salience
The level of congruence between parties and their voters can vary greatly from one policy issue to another, which raises questions regarding the effectiveness of political representation. We seek to explain variation in party–voter congruence across issues and parties.
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Anouk van Vliet
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Graig KleinFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Maartje JanseFaculty of Humanities
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What is the role of parties in local politics?
Political scientist Simon Otjes (Leiden University) receives a grant from The Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant is part of the SGW Open Competition XS, which aims to stimulate innovative scientific research within the Social Sciences and Humanities domain. Otjes receives the grant for his research…
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Christian HendersonFaculty of Humanities
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Sarthak BagchiFaculty of Humanities
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Aritri DuttaFaculty of Humanities
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Randal SheppardFaculty of Humanities
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Lockdowns, lethality, and laissez-faire politics. Public discourses on political authorities in high-trust countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
This study looks at population response to government containment strategies during initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in four high-trust Northern European countries–Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden–with special emphasis on expressions of governmental trust.
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New Dutch PM must look beyond national political landscape
In the upcoming Dutch general elections, the focus of the party campaigns is on national issues. Luuk van Middelaar, Professor of Foundations and Practice of the European Union and its Institutions, argues in a column in Dutch newspaper NRC that foreign policy should also be on the agenda.
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Dario FazziFaculty of Humanities
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Diah AngendariSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Arman HasanSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Alexandre AfonsoFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Edmund FrettinghamFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Adam LichtenheldFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Blog Post | Public Diplomacy and the Politics of Uncertainty
In this blog post, Paweł Surowiec and Ilan Manor draw on insights from their edited volume Public Diplomacy and the Politics of Uncertainty.
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Sovereignty as a Vocation in Hobbes's Leviathan
Hoye proposes that concerns about virtues of the sovereign are essential for understanding Hobbes's both his political thinking and his political critique.
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Elsa CharletySocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Reijer PasschierFaculty of Law
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Andrew LittlejohnSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Simon WillmettsFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Ingrid SamsetFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Lydie CabaneFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Eva PolmanFaculty of Law
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Frank PiekeFaculty of Humanities
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Tim MeijersFaculty of Humanities
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Peter MeelFaculty of Humanities
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Marieke van der Maden
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Bastiaan RijpkemaFaculty of Law
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Cohen, The Right-Wing ‘One-State Solution’
Mateo Cohen (research assistant at the Open University of Israel and PhD candidate at Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science) studied arguments articulated by diverse members of the Right-Wing elite in Israel and explains how these views lead to the rejection of a two-state solution and…
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Yuan Yi ZhuSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Protecting Democracy in Europe: Pluralism, Autocracy and the Future of the EU
The future of Europe as a community of democratic states is deeply uncertain. The European Union, founded to promote ‘ever closer’ integration, aims nominally for peaceful, prosperous cooperation. But this ideal has been battered by a series of bruising crises, and now by war.
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Politics and the Holocaust in Modern Poland
Lecture, Seminar
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What makes politicians work harder? The role of electoral advantage
This study investigates how the tenure of security (proxied by both inter- and intra-party electoral advantage) affects the engagement and political performance of members of parliament.
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William Michael SchmidliFaculty of Humanities
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Politics, Opera & Philosophy
Opera, more so perhaps than most other forms of art, is deeply intertwined with philosophy and politics. For some composers this was explicitly so. Think of Wagner’s relation with Nietzsche and Schopenhauer or Verdi’s role in Italian unification. But almost any opera raises, and tries to grapple with,…
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Welcome, new political science students!
Monday 5 September 2016, the political science bachelor’s and master’s programmes kick off. We are looking forward to meeting our new students. And we will happily help them to find their way around.
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Carina van de Wetering
Social & Behavioural Sciences