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.
Research
Political Science is organised in 3 programme groups (which are part of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research):
- Challenges to Democratic Representation: addresses the conditions under which regimes can maintain stability and safeguard basic principles of democratic accountability, representation and legitimacy.
- Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV): explores the ongoing transformation of political and economic governance within and beyond nation-states.
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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.
PhD programme
For questions about a PhD programme, you can contact the research institute: aissr@uva.nl. Or go to the AISSR website
Education
The University of Amsterdam offers Bachelor's and Master's programmes in Political Science.
Bachelor's programmes
- Algemene sociale wetenschappen (Dutch)
- Politicologie (Dutch)
- Political Science (English)
Master's programmes
- Conflict Resolution and Governance
- European Politics and External Relations (Political Science)
- International Relations (Political Science)
- Political Economy (Political Science)
- Political Theory (Political Science)
- Public Policy and Governance (Political Science)
Research Master's programmes
Summer programmes
Our discpline also contributes to a number of intensive English taught summer and winter programmes on specific themes, like Sexuality, Addiction and The Everyday City.
Contact
Roeterseilandcampus
Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
1018 WV Amsterdam
Phone: +31 20 5252169
E-mail: sec-pol-fmg@uva.nl
