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Public leadership in a wider perspective: ‘Leadership is for everyone’ 10 June 2024The field of leadership suffers from ‘adjectivism’, says Professor Ben Kuipers. He immediately caveats this by saying that he too is going furnish the...
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Alumni from Brussels: ‘Leiden University has a fantastic reputation here’ 05 June 2024They dreamed of Brussels, worked hard and finally succeeded: working for Europe. The list of Leiden University alumni in Brussels is long. A few days ...
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Experiment in Leiden SSH labs: a peek inside a civil servant's head 04 June 2024You would normally not see public administration experts and water authority officials in a laboratory, let alone together. This is changing now, spec...
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‘Ties with Leiden University important for prospective prime minister Dick Schoof’ 30 May 2024Dick Schoof can also be called the neighbour of the faculty in The Hague. Especially from his role at the NCTV, he worked together a lot with Leiden U...
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Migrants cost European governments less than their native-born citizens do 29 May 2024Migrants are far less of a burden on the budget of European countries than is often thought. In many cases, they make a more positive contribution tha...
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Attention to education and culture at lowest point in 20 years 22 May 2024After an extensive content analysis of the coalition agreement, a sharp fall can be seen in the focus on education & culture, science & technology and...
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'We are already going to see this effect of the coalition agreement in the coming weeks' 17 May 2024Few details, relatively few words. The coalition agreement presented is one of the shortest in the past 20 years, Arco Timmermans knows. Consequently,...
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Shadowing a municipality manager for a week: 'I saw him mostly putting out a lot of fires' 08 May 2024After a week of shadowing for her master's degree Management of the Public Sector, it has become very clear to student Loes what a manager's day looks...
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'Elections are in the air here in Brussels, the energy is surreal' 08 May 2024German-American Mia Müller (26) has been working at the European Parliament for three years now as Press Officer at The Greens/EFA Group. She was stil...
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‘Formation issues mainly due to judgment culture in Dutch politics’ 01 March 2024It was an unusual morning for Arco Timmermans, when the public affairs and politics expert was invited to advise informer Kim Putters early last week....
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‘I look forward to establishing cross-links between various organisations in the coming years’ 27 February 2024In November 2023, Anne Fleur van Veenstra, scientific director of TNO Vector, was appointed professor by special appointment of 'Governance of data an...
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The journey taken by our discarded clothes 22 January 2024We take our worn, torn and unwanted clothes to the clothing bank, assuming they will get a second chance. But what exactly happens with all those text...
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Two new Leiden members of The Young Academy 16 January 2024Leiden researchers Fenneke Sysling (Institute for History) and Joris van der Voet (Institute of Public Administration) will be admitted to the Royal N...
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FGGA in 2023: This was the year of our faculty 13 December 20232023 was another year full of highlights and special moments for the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. Find out what the year was like in this...
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Kohei Suzuki receives Kenneth J. Meier Award from the Midwest Political Science Association 13 December 2023Kohei Suzuki, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration, has received the Kenneth J. Meier Award for his paper ‘Politicisation, Bu...