Political Science at the UvA is characterized by its broad study of politics at and between local, national, European and global levels of governance. The research and teaching that manifest that study draw on the full array of the discipline’s subfields, theories and methods of political inquiry.
Political Science at the UvA examines how ongoing social, economic, and political transformations affect local, national, European and global governance. The discipline studies interactions between the political system, the economy and civic society, with a critical view on democratic accountability, representative quality and legitimacy of contemporary governance, also with the aim of improving these matters.
Political Science is organised in 3 programme groups (which are part of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research):
Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance: on conflict - from neighborhood level to civil war -, and governance and transformations in the institutional forms of and relations between states, organizations, civil society, markets and knowledge infrastructure.
For questions about a PhD programme, you can contact the research institute: aissr@uva.nl. Or go to the AISSR website
The University of Amsterdam offers Bachelor's and Master's programmes in Political Science.
Our discpline also contributes to a number of intensive English taught summer and winter programmes on specific themes.
Roeterseilandcampus
Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
1018 WV Amsterdam
Phone: +31 20 5252169
E-mail: sec-pol-fmg@uva.nl
Room Location
Nieuwe Achtergracht 166