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• ACCEPT PLURALISM- Tolerance, pluralism and social cohesion: responding to the challenges of the 21st century in Europe

  This European FP7 funded project investigates the meanings of tolerance in a variety of contexts with a special focus on ‘what needs to be done’ actually in Europe in order to proceed to more coherent societies, while respecting ethnic, religious ...

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• Adrift or adroit? On the sources of electoral volatility in the Netherlands, 2006-2010

  This NWO funded research project aims to fill the theoretical and empirical gaps in our knowledge on electoral volatility, employing an extensive panel data set, namely the 1Vandaag Opinion Panel since November 2006, that allows us to open the ...

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• CIT-PART: Impact of Citizen Participation on Decision Making in a Knowledge Intensive Policy Field

  Funded by the EU (FP7), Anne Loeber will undertake a theoretical approach to conduct a comparative study on the impact of PTA and TA on policy-making in 8 european countries, the European commission, the OECD and the Holy Sea.

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• Constructions of justice and legitimacy: defence and prosecution discourses before international criminal courts

  This NWO funded research, considers how notions of justice and legitimacy are constructed in the course of trial proceedings, examining the discourses of both prosecutors and high profile accused persons.

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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 NWO funded project aims to how policy positions and leadership images affect citizens’ vote intentions before and during election campaigns.

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• Data wars: new spaces of governing against terrorist finance

  The goal of this NWO funded project is to map and analyse the reconfigured spaces of governing that are emerging through the deployment of financial information in the European war on terror.

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• ELECDEM: Training Network in Electoral Democracy

  This Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) will bring together 11 expert teams from 9 European countries to provide substantive and methodological training in elections research to a cohort of early stage and experienced researchers.

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• EURISLAM: on the incorporation of Islam in European Member States

  EURISLAM is a European Commission-funded Research program within the Seventh Framework. EURISLAM is an international comparative research project that analyses how the incorporation of Islam in European Member States is influenced by national ...

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• Feminist (un)easiness with nationalism: the influence of the Yugoslav wars on feminism in Croatia and Serbia (1991-2000)

  This NWO funded research aims to enhance our understanding of the relationship between feminism and nationalism

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• Governance as Learning

  The key question of this NWO funded research programme is whether these shifting governance arrangements, horizontally through power- and policy-sharing agreements with social partners and vertically through international arrangements based on ...

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• Human-rights Promotion and Peacemaking

  This NWO funded project explores whether and under what conditions promotion of human rights helps or hinders conflict resolution in practice.

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• Knowledge programme: Civil society in closed societies

  The Knowledge Programme on Civil Society in Closed Societies aims to generate and integrate knowledge on the roles and opportunities for civic action for democracy through CSOs in closed societies.

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• Negotiating Conflicts in Urban Neighbourhoods

  This NICIS funded project is developed by the University of Amsterdam and the Delft University of Technology in cooperation with cities in the Dutch Randstad area and aims at developing the tie between conflict and context in changing urban ...

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• PIREDEU: Providing Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union

  PIREDEU is a collaborative project aimed at "Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union". funded by the European Union (FP7)

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• Politieke conflicten in vijf stelsels: de rol van burgers, media en partijen in de politisering van immigratie en Europese integratie

  Politiek gaat in essentie over conflict-issues. Dit NWO gefinancieerde onderzoek vergroot ons begrip van issue-evolutie.

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• RELIGARE: Religious diversity and secular models in Europe

  The FP7 funded RELIGARE project is about religions, belonging, beliefs and secularism in Europe. It examines the legal rules protecting or limiting (constraining) the experiences of religious or other belief-based communities.

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• Resilient Democracy. Political Legitimacy and Transformations of Party Democracy

  This NWO funded project is aimed at extending theoretical and empirical knowledge of how transitions of party democracy affect political legitimacy

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• SOM: Support and Opposition to Migration

  This programme is funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme. The project looks at the politicization of migration in seven European countries.

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• The Ties that Bind: An Empirical Evaluation of the Theory of Liberal Nationalism

  The aim of this NWO funded research is to examine how people living within the boundaries of a national community think about its social contours and, more specifically, how these conceptions of national identity affect, across different ...

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• Theoretische duiding transitie Noord Afrika en Midden-Oosten

  Dit theoretische onderzoek, gefinancieerd door WODC en het ministerie van Veiligheid en Justitie, bekijkt de transitie in Noord Afrika en het Midden-Oosten van verschillende kanten.

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