Externally funded projects
Political Science
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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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