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  Willeke van Heyningen-van Rij Management Office Assistant

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  w.van.heyningen@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278793

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  Terence Merkelbach Staff Member Administrative Information

  Administration and Central Services

  t.b.merkelbach@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273577

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  Bart Verheijen Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.j.verheijen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271743

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  Wim Voermans Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  w.j.m.voermans@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277718

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  Tom Buitelaar Assistant professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  t.j.a.buitelaar@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009985

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  Jonathan Crock External PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Jiyan Ilbrink University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.ilbrink@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 0715272977

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  Matthew Hoye Associate Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  j.m.hoye@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9506

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  Johan Christensen Associate professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  j.christensen@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

• 'The show must go on, but making politics less tedious is an almost effortless job these days!' News - 18 February 2021

  After almost a year of working from home during this Covid pandemic, Scientific Director Paul Nieuwenburg conveys how the Institute of Political Science is sailing through waves and lockdowns: from transformation to bi location to 'non location', from teaching on the beach to teaching to 'black cubes'…

• Interview Tom Theuns in IQ Magazine: “NATO Resembles a House of Cards” News - 1 April 2025

  The rise of authoritarianism, the strengthening of the radical right, and the role of the EU in defending democracy—these are just a few of the issues causing concern today. Is the EU capable of defending democratic values within the Union and beyond its borders? In an interview from the Lithuanian…

• Sara Polak: 'I want to know if what social media is doing to the political game in the US is unique' News - 28 October 2024

  Political games have existed throughout history, but what is the role of 'play' in the way the American political world has developed? University lecturer Sara Polak has received an ERC Starting Grant to investigate this.

• ‘Vastgelopen formatie te wijten aan afrekencultuur' News - 1 March 2024

  Expert in public affairs and politics Arco Timmermans advised the informer Kim Putters.

• Protecting Democracy in Europe: Tom Theuns Presents His New Book at the European Parliament News - 17 December 2024

  On 10 December 2024, the European Parliament played host to an insightful presentation of ‘Protecting Democracy in Europe: Pluralism, Autocracy, and the Future of the EU’, the new book by Tom Theuns, Assistant Professor at Leiden University. Hosted by MEP Thijs Reuten (PvdA/S&D) and his team, the event…

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  Toon Kerkhoff Associate professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  a.d.n.kerkhoff@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009484

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  Jay Huang Assistant Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  y.c.huang@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009596

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  Anna Notsu PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.notsu@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Tin Kapetanovic Dual PhD candidate - guest

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  t.kapetanovic@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009589

• Transforming Society: 'Oligarchic Rivalry: US–China Tariffs and the Global Politics of Inequality' News - 10 June 2025

  In a new Transforming Society article, Salvador Santino Regilme, Associate Professor and Chair of the International Relations Program at Leiden University, critiques the Trump administration’s US–China tariff war as a covert instrument of domestic class warfare.

• Leiden researchers explain shock PVV victory News - 23 November 2023

  Geert Wilders and his PVV party have won the 2023 elections. What was the deciding factor for this victory?

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  Jeroen Duindam Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.f.j.duindam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272759

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  Benjamin Kester Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  b.a.n.kester@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Eleftherios Karchimakis Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  e.karchimakis@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512

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  Esra Nartok-van der Kist Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  e.e.nartok@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Maximilian Wachter PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.n.wachter@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Alexandros Ntaflos Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.ntaflos@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512

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  Joshua Musumi Chibuyi PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.m.chibuyi@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Towards the Hinduisation of India? News - 25 January 2024

  The recent consecration of India’s Ayodhya temple by Prime Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party figurehead Narendra Modi raises important questions. Is secularism giving way to religious rule in the world’s largest democracy? How does this resonate with India’s culturally diverse population? France 24…

• ‘New Rutte IV administrative culture will be difficult to create’ News - 6 January 2022

  The Rutte IV cabinet is more or less complete. It includes more women than ever. For the first time ever, the Netherlands will have two ethnic minority ministers, and ministers without political experience but with plenty of professional expertise will also be making their debut. However, political…

• Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections News - 13 June 2023

  Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…

• system was supposed to elevate the colony, but turned out to be token politics News - 20 May 2021

  In the late 19th century, the Dutch government introduced a tax system in the Dutch East Indies, with the intention of transforming the colony into a modern state. PhD student Maarten Manse wrote his thesis on this development and discovered how grandiloquent colonial ideals became bogged down in daily…

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  Eline Joor Senior alumni & internship coordinator

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  e.e.j.joor@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Sandra Meddeler Policy Officer / Secretary to the Board of Examiners

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.r.meddeler@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Debbie Tromper Management assistant

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  d.tromper@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276940

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  Pawan Kumar Sen Guest researcher

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  p.k.sen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nathalie van Dooren Coordinator Marketing & Student Recruitment

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  n.m.m.q.van.dooren@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275687

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  Nynke Heegstra Study Adviser

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  n.e.heegstra@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8003941

• Adina Akbik wins Student-led Teaching Award News - 10 October 2024

  This September, Adina Akbik received the Political Science Teaching Award at Leiden University. Created by student members of the Bachelor's and Master's Programme Committees (OLC), the award recognises remarkable teaching at the Institute. Akbik was chosen from five finalists after receiving several…

• PE_PP talk: The political cost of tax reform Event - 14 April 2025

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• Just to be sure... At any cost? News - 1 May 2024

  Security seems to most people a basic necessity of life, a prerequisite for a good life. But if you think about it a little longer and deeper, as political philosopher Josette Daemen has done, you realise that security sometimes comes at the expense of other important goods, such as freedom and equality.…

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  Emma Korpershoek Student Ambassador Crisis and security Management

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  e.c.korpershoek@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Natasha Wood Postdoc

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  n.r.wood@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Patricio Silva Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.silva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 3113353399

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  Yoonai Han University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.han@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272551

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  Aleena Karim External PhD student

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.karim@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Deborah Oyuu PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.d.oyuu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Janet Connor Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.e.connor@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277210

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  Minke Jonk-Thuong ICTO coordinator

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.d.m.jonk@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272140

• Alumnus teaching at a Texan university: pizza, guns and heated debate in the lecture theatre News - 17 October 2024

  Americans are electing a new president in November but they also have other choices to make in the polling booth. Alumnus Sanne Rijkhoff works at a Texas university and is trying to help make students more aware of the elections.

• Solving the Pachakutik party puzzle News - 30 June 2021

  The Ecuadorian Pachakutik party is one of the oldest indigenous political movements in Latin America. Despite not being very successful at the polls and hardly having organisational resources at its disposal, Pachakutik is still part of Ecuador’s political landscape. In her dissertation, Political Scientist…