Externally funded projects
Political Science
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A Longitudinal Investigation into the Effects of Deliberative Quality of Political Debates in the Media on Political Trust in the Netherlands and Flanders (Belgium).
Within the public and scholarly debate concerns have been expressed repeatedly about the negative influence of the media on the democratic process. Moving from public to media logic, ‘programs in the public interest’ are replaced by ‘programs the ...
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Asylum Theory for a Non-Ideal World
The international refugee protection regime, which came about in the aftermath of the Second World War with the drafting of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, has helped protect the lives of millions.
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Asylum theory for a non-ideal world
What duties do states have towards refugees? What is the basis of such duties? And what kind of global regime is best able to protect refugees without unfairly burdening states?
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AuthoritarianGlobal: Authoritarianism in a Global Age: Controlling Information and Communication, Association and People Movement
This ERC funded project investigates changes in both the nature and the sustainability of authoritarian rule in relation to the erosion of decision-making autonomy at the state level posited by globalisation theorists.
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Continuously Campaigning for Volatile Voters? How policy positions and leadership images affect citizens’ vote intentions before and during election campaigns, the Netherlands 2006-2012
This project is funded by an NWO Research Talent scholarship. It looks at to what extent the Dutch electorate volatility is affected by leadership images and policy positions in the media, before and during campaigns.
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De ideologie van Sharia4Belgium online
De overheid heeft met het Actieprogramma Integrale Aanpak Jihadisme (AIAJ) aangegeven de (hernieuwde) dreiging van het jihadisme zeer serieus te nemen. Dit onderzoeksvoorstel kan het actieprogramma aanvullen in de informatievoorziening over ...
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Election Violence: Domestic and International Determinants of Election Violence
This project, funded through a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant, conceptualizes election violence as a sub-type of political violence in which actors employ coercion to affect the electoral process or that arises in the context of electoral ...
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European Legitimacy in Governing through Hard Times: the role of European Networks (ENLIGHTEN)
Over the last five years the European Union has faced financial crises, acute imbalances, problems of macro-economic coordination, structural reform, questions of long-term fiscal sustainability and ‘rule of law’ crises. These complex and ...
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European Security Culture
This NWO funded project researches contemporary security culture in Europe with a focus on the preventative and preemptive approach to fighting terrorism and other 'new threats'.
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European and Transnational Governance - Jean Monnet Chair
The EU sponsored Jean Monnet Chair project aims to strengthen and increase the visibility of European integration studies within the University and city of Amsterdam, and to stimulate excellence in research, teaching, and reflection on the EU ...
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Exploring the Gender Gap in Vote for Anti-Immigrant Parties
This project explores why women are less likely than men to vote for anti-immigrant parties and why the gender gap in anti-immigrant party support varies so much between countries. The project is funded by the Swedish Council for Working Life and ...
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Fickle Formulas: The Political Economy of Macroeconomic Measurement
Macroeconomic indicators are integral to economic governance. Measurements of growth, unemployment, inflation and public deficits inform policy, for example through growth targets and the inflation-indexation of wages. These indicators tell us ...
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GREEN: Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks
This EU funded (FP7) project will study the current and future role of the EU in an emerging multi-polar world through a programme of stock taking, multi-disciplinary research and complementary activities. It aims at a better understanding of the ...
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INTEGRIM
The EU (Marie Curie) funded INTEGRIM research training programme aims to establish a multi-site network of early stage researchers (predominantly PhD students) at the eight partner institutions fostering a multidisciplinary research career on ...
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Meritocratie en democratie. Een politiek theoretische verkenning van verschuivende ideeën over kwaliteit en rekrutering van elites in democratische samenlevingen
Dit onderzoek is gefinancieerd door de Stichting voro Agnosticisme & Meritocratie. Het beoogt de onderlinge relaties tussen meritocratie en democratie te onderzoeken, waarbij actuele discussies worden gesitueerd in de geschiedenis van de ...
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Muslim Politics and Governance of Islam: Interactions of Structure and Culture in Multireligious Europe
The societal backdrop for this project is the post-war influx of non-Western migrants to countries in Western Europe, and the increasing cultural heterogeneity that followed. Since the 1990s, and even more following 9/11, phenomena connected to ...
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Neither Dwarf nor Leviathan: Explaining Territorial and Functional Variation in State Capacity
Citizens live longer, happier lives where states are able to perform their core functions effectively. Yet, even though weak states have received considerable attention from scholars and policy-makers, the concept of state weakness has remained ...
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New Modes of Lobbying for New Modes of Governance. Interest Representation and Experimentalist Governance in the EU
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New governing parties: failure or success?
This NWO funded research project will analyze the performance of newly governing parties and will answer the question what explains the differential success of parties that govern for the first time?
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Pathways to Power: The Political Representation of Citizens of Immigration Origin in Seven European Democracies’ (PATHWAYS)
PATHWAYS is a project seeking to advance knowledge in two areas concerning citizens of immigrant origin in Europe
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Policy influencing, Lobby and Advocacy: Case Studies
IOB, the Policy and Operations Evaluation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands, conducts an evaluation of Policy Influencing, Lobby and Advocacy (PILA) that centers around the aim to gain a better understanding of how ...
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Political Reach, State Fragility, and the Incidence of Maritime Piracy: Explaining Piracy & Pirate Organization, 1993-2012
The project is financed through the Office of Naval Research under the Minerva Initiative, and proposes; new theoretical explanations of maritime piracy, collects data on the incidence of piracy and the characteristics of pirate organizations, ...
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Political entrepreneurs and civil wars
This project is funded by the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF).
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Politics at the Intersection: Gender and Ethnicity in Parliamentary Representation
This NWO VENI project aims to understand political inclusion and exclusion based on the interaction of gender and ethnicity.
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Politics of the Intersection: Gender and Ethnicity in Parliamentary Representation
This project aims to understand political inclusion and exclusion based on the interaction of gender and ethnicity.
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Power Dynamics in the new gas and green raw materials transition
This NWO funded project focuses on the fundamental mechanism that strongly influences all energy transition processes: the interplay between strategies of entrepreneurs who strive to introduce novelty and strategies of incumbents who have strong ...
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Reassessing the ‘control gap’ debate. The making of family migration policies in France, Germany and the Netherlands, 1955-1985.
For more than fifteen years, there has been a lively debate among migration scholars in Europe and North-America about how to explain the paradox that large-scale settlement has taken place in Western States over the last fifty years, even though ...
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Social Protections and precarious work in Continental Southeast Asian Borderlands’
Globalizing trends have been linked with an increased precariousness of workers: “By the late 1990s a staggering one billion workers representing one-third of the world’s labour force, most of them in the Global South, were either unemployed or ...
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The Democratic Challenge: Shifting Responsibility and Electoral Volatility
Over the past two decades, Western societies have witnessed two major transformations that have significant consequences for the role of parties in representative democracies. The first is the substantial diminishment of the role of national ...
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The Transnationalization of China’s oil industry: Company strategies, embedded projects, and relations with institutions and stakeholders in resource-rich countries
This joint comparative research project, funded by KNAW, CASS, and by the International Institute for Asian Studies. will analyse China’s increasing involvement with governments, local institutions and local stakeholders in the energy sectors of ...
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The boundaries of solidarity: multi-level governance and redistribution
This project seeks to understand people’s readiness to redistribute locally, nationally or supranationally, by analyzing how collective identities, generalized trust, national frames and decentralization influence preferences for redistribution ...
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The boundaries of solidarity: multi-level governance and redistribution
This NWO VENI funded project seeks to understand people's readiness to redistribute locally, nationally, or supranationally.
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The boundaries of solidarity: multi-level governance and redistribution
The increasing complexity and heterogeneity of contemporary societies represent a major challenge to European nation-states. Their boundaries of social rights, political participation and ethnic belonging used to be highly congruent. In the past ...
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The daily governance of transit migration in Turkey at European Union borders
Programme group Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance
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Things Fall Apart: Cohesion and Fragmentation in Armed Groups
This NWO funded project investigates the dynamics of cohesion in armed groups. It addresses both the causes and consequences of fragmentation.
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Towards a social theory of corporate governance: interaction, incentives and information in private and semi-public managerial decision-making
In this, NWO-VENI funded, project Eelke van Heemskerk aims to develop a social theory of corporate governance.
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Unity in diversity: analyses of the effects of ethnicity and ethnic diversity on social capital
In this NWO funded Veni project, researchers conduct open interviews and mixed method surveys amongst five ethnic groups in the Netherlands, and aim to formulate and test new (complementary and rivaling) theoretical expectations on the ethnicity ...
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We the People: How Public Opinion towards Multiculturalism Shapes Political Outcomes
This NWO VENI funded project analyzes to what extent, how, and under which conditions public preferences shape policy outcomes in the Netherlands.
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When MEPs go national: legislative behaviour in the European Parliament
Legislative behaviour of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) is motivated by both ideological and national concerns. Existing studies, however, find mixed and at times conflicting evidence as to which of these determinants best explains MEP ...
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Why interests organize on only some issues: Assessing the density and diversity of interest organizations in Western Europe
The aim of this NWO funded project is to fill a gap in the literature by describing and explaining the variation in the number (density) and character (diversity) of interest organizations in twenty policy domains in the United Kingdom, Germany, ...
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Why we measure our economies the way we do: the political economy of macroeconomic measurement
Macroeconomic indicators stand central in economic governance and its political contestation. Measurements of growth, unemployment, inflation and public deficits tell us “how economies are doing”. Yet, in contrast to their air of objectivity, it ...
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