Many of the big challenges of the 21st century (climate change, international migration, financial instability, socio-economic inequality) find their origins in the organisation of the global economy. Any solution to the world’s big challenges therefore requires forceful policy interventions at the…

This article provides an all-inclusive overview of public diplomacy literature that relates to a myriad of issues and has been studied from various points of view.

Implementing all kinds of change and introducing new structures, far-reaching rules and administrative systems may sometimes seem to distract an organisation from its purpose. Furthermore, there is growing recognition of the need of staff of public organisations to find more meaning in their work: the…

How can innovation help or hinder public procurement processes?

ELS@Leiden research encompasses a wide range of empirical-legal projects carried out within Leiden Law School from the perspective of multiple disciplines and methods. Here you can find the publications of our (former) lab members since the start of the Sector Plan.

In the research project ‘Furthering public leadership’ the Leiden Leadership Centre collaborates with several public organisations in order to obtain academic insights on public leadership and to develop leadership in practice. This allows for evidence-based development of public leadership and direct…

This book is a much-needed update on our understanding of public diplomacy. It intends to stimulate new thinking on what is one of the most remarkable recent developments in diplomatic practice that has challenged practitioners as much as scholars.

The idea of citizens and public professionals collaborating to provide public services has widely spread in several countries around the globe. Co-production is often presented as the go-to solution for challenges like a legitimacy crisis of both the government and the market, and financial concerns.…

This article, by Sara Perlstein, explores how perceived social acceptability shapes whether people talk about risks, showing that risk perceptions and conversations are socially negotiated rather than purely individual.

Arco Timmermans’ handbook unites experts to examine public affairs, its challenges, and its alignment with democracy and open society.

Kohei Suzuki, Assistant Professor at Institute of Public Administration, researched, together with two other authors, whether public managers with private sector experience have more core managerial values.

Our subscribers have written several publications about international security issues.

Publications of the Leiden Papyrological Institute

The NVIC has published a series of scholarly publications in Arabic and several European languages.

Members of COI@Leiden have published extensively in the area of institutions for conflict resolution on a wide array of topics. These publications can be found below.

An overview will be appear here shortly of all the publications from the Living Lab.

Members of the Business and Law Research Network have published extensively in recent years. These publications consist, among others, of books in the BLRN Book Series, the Leidse handboeken and dissertations in the E.M. Meijers Institute Series.

Kohei Suzuki and his co-authors reflect on their extensive scholarly experience teaching comparative public administration across diverse countries including Canada, the Netherlands, Qatar, and the United States.

If you want to find out more about Leiden University, you can read our publications online or request a printed copy.

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How and why governments engage with civil society as well as how civil society organizes itself and exerts political influence constitute the key focus of the research programme Public Governance & Civil Society. As such, this research programme offers unique expertise within the field of public administration…

Jelke Bethlehem (Leiden University, Institute of Political Science) gives an overview of many aspects of polls: questionnaire design, sample selection, estimation, margins of error, nonresponse and weighting. As such, it is useful both for readers who want to gain a better understanding of the ins and…

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For a full overview of the publications of the Translational Immuno-Pharmacology group, visit the Google Scholar page.

Check what has been published in the media about Heritage Quest and view the articles, webinars and video's the project has published.

This book explores how public health concerns and political agendas influenced each other in the US over the past century.

Are you thinking about studying Public Administration: Public Management and Leadership? Learn more and watch the videos.

Double Bind. Public service professionals coping with contrasting demands. How do public service professionals align their PSM with contrasting demands set by the organizational and social contexts in which they work?

Overview of Leiden publications on Central Asia. For additional publications dedicated to a single country, please go to individual pages of the researchers, which you can access through the Researchers page.

Below you will find an overview of the publications of The Leiden Advocacy Project on Plastic.

A selection of recent publications from the Plant BioDynamics Laboratory.

How do leadership behaviour repertoires take shape in public organizations?

Kohei Suzuki, assistant professor at Leiden University, together with Victor Lapuente, examined how male and female public managers show attitudinal differences toward innovation in the public sector.