Er is nogal wat variatie in de mate waarin parlementaire stemmingen verlopen volgens de scheidslijn regering-oppositie. Hoe zijn deze verschillen te verklaren? Party Politics artikel van Tom Louwerse et al.

Ambtenarensystemen zijn wereldwijd krijgen wereldwijd veel kritiek. Dit artikel presenteert een onderzoek naar bewijsmateriaal over over overheidsprestaties en merictocratie.

Op 16 juni 2020 verdedigde Andrea Varga haar proefschrift 'Establishing State Responsibility in the Absence of Effective Government'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof. dr. N.J. Schrijver en prof. dr. F. Baetens (University of Oslo).

In dit artikel proberen Isabelle Frens, Jelle van Buuren en Edwin Bakker anti-overheidsprotesten te begrijpen.

What can we learn from the diverse institutional logics of smart government in East Asia to inform cross-institutional AI governance?

Whilst government’s ability to design ‘context-specific’ regional innovation policy is generally assumed to depend on the region’s decision-making power, the aim of this study is to investigate how regional government matters. In order to open up the black box of policy design, the study develops a…

The University of Reading will host an online workshop on 27 April 2021. It is aimed at early career and postgraduate research historians focusing on the area of medieval finance. The deadline for submissions is: 19 February 2021.

Bulgarije kwam relatief ongeschonden uit de eerste golf, maar in het najaar van 2020 namen het aantal infecties, ziekenhuisopnames en sterfgevallen sterk toe. Dit onderzoek analyseert hoe de Bulgaarse regering op de Covid-19 pandemie heeft gereageerd.

The use of increasingly large and diverse datasets to guide urban climate action has implications for how, and by whom, local governments are held accountable.

In this special edition of Information Polity there is a focus on the transparency challenges of using algorithms in government in decision-making procedures at the macro-, meso-, and micro-levels.

Op 7 december 2021 verdedigde Georgina Kuipers het proefschrift 'Beschadigd vertrouwen'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.mr. W. den Ouden en prof.dr. M.A. van der Steen (EUR).

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In this project of the Center for Public Values & Ethics (CPVE) ongoing research is conducted on the history of advice to Dutch central government by so-called State committees from 1814 to 2014. State committees have been installed by Dutch central government since 1814 to provide expert advice, research…

Effectiveness and Side-effects.

This thesis attempts to interrogate post-1991-2015 political development in Ethiopia, focusing on the political discourses espoused by the government and opposition, using the discourse analysis method and securitization theory.

Het kabinet overweegt vluchtelingen tijdelijk op te vangen op cruiseschepen voor de Nederlandse kust. Hoogleraar Leo Lucassen noemt dit plan tegenover de NOS ‘krankzinnig’.

Universitair docent Nadia Bouras was te gast bij het programma 'de Taalstaat' op NPO Radio 1. Ze besprak daar de week aan de hand van tweets.

This dissertation, Layered Loyalties: The Natuurkundige Commissie in the Netherlands Indies (1820-1850), studies the Natuurkundige Commissie.

Remco Breuker, hoogleraar Koreastudies, sprak met de Volkskrant over het geldbedrag dat de overheid beschikbaar stelt om de groeiende studentenaantallen in het hoger onderwijs te compenseren. Volgens Breuker is de 645 miljoen euro niet genoeg om de werkdruk te verlagen.

Can we provide the Dutch government with an integrative framework, wherein the various policies can be placed and the need for further measures can be identified?

This PhD-thesis analyses the relationship between the parties’ choices in the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis’ assessments of the election manifestos and coalition agreements over the period 1986-2017, and tries to explain this relationship.

In 2015, CML published over 70 papers, contributed to the United Nations conference on climate change in Paris, won awards and advised the Dutch government on the safe use of pesticides. CML awarded 11 PhDs and taught students from all over the world how to contribute to sustainability. We wish you…

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: L.B.F. Juurlink

Lezing, Workshop

Dimiter Toshkov, UHD, Brendan Carroll, UD, en Kutsal Yesilkagit, Professor International Governance, van de Universiteit Leiden schreven een artikel voor de Washington Post over de Europese overheden die snel handelden in tijden van pandemie. En dit zijn niet de overheden die je zou verwachten.

What holds people together and what makes them willing to fit within larger political structures? Our project examines this question in the practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasia ca. 1300-1800.

Wetlands provide many ecosystem goods and services which include fish production. The sustainability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) has received considerable attention in recent years because fish is one of the major sources of animal protein to a considerable fraction of the global population which…

We verwelkomen gastwetenschappers wier onderzoek aansluit bij onze uiteenlopende expertisegebieden. De tekst gaat verder in het Engels.

The Economics and Governance specialisation of the Master in Public Administration teaches you to formulate problem-solving approaches to concrete policy issues found at the intersection between economics and public administration. This specialisation is a unique joint offering of the Department of…

The Institute of Environmental Sciences has carried out and participates in several projects that deal with the analysis of energy systems.

An account of the total of material flows going in, out and through Amsterdam.

The main research question of this thesis was: Can nitrogen cycling on dairy farms on peat soil in the Dutch Green Heart area be improved by adapting management to the nitrogen supply from soil and by using other grassland species and crops without affecting milk production?

This PhD research sets out to unravel and explain the socio-structural and cultural impacts of oil-industrialization on the local Bakhtiari community in general and the industrial laborers it provided in specific.

INFLUEX onderzoekt de invloed van experts op het openbare beleid, met als doel hun rol in democratische beleidsvorming te definiëren, meten en verklaren

Hoe kunnen we het contact begrijpen tussen gemeenschappen die actief zijn in duurzaamheidsinitiatieven en overheidsfunctionarissen op meerdere institutionele niveaus in Nederland?

Samuel Jong behaalt de masterscriptieprijs 2016 van het Instituut Politieke Wetenschap. Met ‘Bridging the Gap: Do Ideological Differences Determine Whether Center-Right Parties Cooperate with the Radical Right?’, rondde Jong zijn master Political Science af. Zijn bevindingen, zijn naar het oordeel van…

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This study attempts to understand how indigenous community institutions pose an important role in sustainable community-based development, including the integration between local culture and development.

The expedition commanded by Nicolas Baudin to Tenerife, Mauritius, Australia, Timor and South Africa in 1800-1804 is fully researched in regard to ornithology.

Developing robust algorithms and theory for establishing cause-effect relationships from observational data that scale up to large data sets

Indicators to measure progress in de-linking economic growth and environmental pressure.

In times of hardships or crisis, local people know how to deal with it using their resourcefulness. Although efforts are sometimes made by the government to help them, they are fully aware that community support is at least equally important.

Een compacte maar theoretisch innovatieve ontdekkingstocht naar hoe Islamofobie en radicalisering op elkaar inhaken en elkaar versterken.

The idea of citizens and public professionals collaborating to provide public services has widely spread in several countries around the globe. Co-production is often presented as the go-to solution for challenges like a legitimacy crisis of both the government and the market, and financial concerns.…

The research provides insight into disease behavior in both rural and semi-urban areas in Serengeti in Tanzania.

Development of GHG calculator for bio-electricity and heat.

Op 18 september 2019 verdedigde Huw Llewellyn zijn proefschrift 'An Institutional Perspective on the United Nations Criminal Tribunals: Governance, Independence and Impartiality'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. N.M. Blokker en prof.dr. L.J. van den Herik.

How to make a quantitative assessment of the relative contribution to toxicity of ions and particles? Is the toxicity of nanoparticles related to their size or shape? Which physicochemical property of nanoparticles is an appropriate dose metric of nanoparticles?

Description of The Regional Network on the Synergy between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.

Corruption, integrity (or a lack thereof…) and public values are near omnipresent elements in public administration and politics of all times. Cases of corrupt public officials and politicians continuously emerge. Strangely enough, however, it often remains unknown what actually occurred, how something…