Challenges to Democratic Representation

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Challenges to democratic representation - AISSR

ACCEPT PLURALISM- Tolerance, pluralism and social cohesion: responding to the challenges of the 21st century in Europe

This European FP7 project investigates the meanings of tolerance in a variety of contexts with a special focus on ‘what needs to be done’ actually in Europe in order to proceed to more coherent societies, while respecting ethnic, religious and cultural plurality.

Adrift or adroit? On the sources of electoral volatility in the Netherlands, 2006-2010

This NWO-funded project aims to fill the theoretical and empirical gaps in our knowledge on electoral volatility. It will do so by employing an extensive panel data set, namely the 1Vandaag Opinion Panel since November 2006, that allows us to open the empirical black box.

ELECDEM: Training Network in Electoral Democracy

This Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) will bring together 11 expert teams from 9 European countries to provide substantive and methodological training in elections research to a cohort of early stage and experienced researchers.

EURISLAM Research Project

EURISLAM is an international comparative research project funded by the European Commission (FP7) that analyses how the incorporation of Islam in European Member States is influenced by national traditions of identity, citizenship and church-state relations.

Meritocratie en democratie. Een politiek theoretische verkenning van verschuivende ideeën over kwaliteit en rekrutering van elites in democratische samenlevingen

Het onderzoek beoogt de onderlinge relaties tussen meritocratie en democratie te onderzoeken, waarbij actuele discussies worden gesitueerd in de geschiedenis van de politieke theorie en waarbij tevens de normatieve grondslagen van beide idealen voor de huidige tijd worden onderzocht.

New governing parties: failure or success?

The number of political parties with no government experience entering Western European cabinets has increased drastically in recent decades. Many commentators criticise this trend and claim that these parties generally perform poorly. This NWO funded project investigates the veracity of this claim.

PIREDEU (Providing Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union)

PIREDEU is a collaborative project aimed at "Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union", coordinated by the European University Institute and its Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

Politieke conflicten in vijf stelsels: de rol van burgers, media en partijen in de politisering van immigratie en Europese integratie

Het onderzoek van Wouter van der Brug vergroot ons begrip van issue-evolutie. Dit gebeurt door politieke conflicten over immigratie en Europese integratie te vergelijken met vijf institutioneel gelijksoortige systemen, die variëren in de mate waarin beide onderwerpen tot een politieke zaak zijn gemaakt: Nederland, Vlaanderen, Denemarken, Zweden en Wallonië.

RELIGARE: Religious diversity and secular models in Europe

The EC funded RELIGARE project is about religions, belonging, beliefs and secularism in Europe. It examines the legal rules protecting or limiting (constraining) the experiences of religious or other belief-based communities

SOM (Support and Opposition to Migration)

SOM is a collaborative project funded by the European Commission as part of the Seventh Framework Programme. The project looks at the politicization of migration in seven European countries. The aim of this comparative project is to determine why and when potential conflicts over migration become politicized, examining both anti-immigration and anti-racist movements.

Unity in diversity. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of the detrimental effects of ethnicity and ethnic diversity on social capital

This NWO funded (VENI) project addresses debates on multiculturalism in which the merits of ethnic diverse societies is increasingly contested. It analyses the relation between ethnic diversity and social capital. By conducting open interviews and mixed method surveys amongst five ethnic groups in the Netherlands, the research project aims to formulate and tests new (complementary and rivaling) theoretical expectations on the ethnicity and diversity effects.

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Bedreigde Democratie?

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