PhD projects Political Science

Research Programme: Multi-Layered Governance (MLG)

Current PhD projects Political Science

• Jeanine Bezuijen; Multilevel Governance Beyond the Nation-State: Explaining the structure of authority in the international arena.
• Judith Bretthauer; Resource Scarcity and Violent Conflict: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the Social, Economic and Political Conditions in Causal Pathways to Conflict  
• Martijn Dekker; Human security from below.
• Glenn Diesen; tba
• Verena Drabing; Social Investment in Europe.
• Annemarie van Elfrinkhof; Party Profiling and Mapping.
• Svetlana Frenova; The role of intersectoral partnerships in the (global) environmental governance and transition towards sustainable development. 
• Nana de Graaff; The transnational dimension of geopolitical conflict over energy resources. Rising influence of state-owned energy corporations and shifts in governance of energy security.
• Benjamin Neudorfer; Consequences of Multilevel Governance.
• Michal Onderco; Make money, no rogues: Analyzing policies of democratic countries towards rogue states.
• Falk Ostermann; The Integrative Turn of French Security and Defense Policy since the End of the Cold War. A Discursive Perspective on Integration and Change. 
• Jerome Schaefer; Senior Commission Official's Role Perceptions in a Changing Europe.
• Gijs Schumacher; To Reform or Not To Reform. Party strategies as an explanation for decision-making on welfare state reform.
• Menno Soentken; Explaining partisan and sectoral politics in the context of active labor market policies.
• Matthias Stepan; Modern social policies in China: From work units towards a fragmented welfare state.

Completed PhD projects Political Science

2009

• Dr. L.C. Horn; The Transformation of Corporate Governance Regulation in the European Union; 23 January 2009. 
• Dr. H.A. Binnema; How parties change. EU integration and the flexible response of political parties; 10 June 2009. 
• Dr. J. Perry; Goodwill hunting: accounting and the global regulation of economic ideas; 26 June 2009.
• Dr. A.H. Schakel; A Postfunctional Theory of Regional Government; 29 June 2009.
• Dr. A. Vliegenthart; Corporate governance regulering in postsocialistisch Europa; 17 September 2009.
• Dr. A.M. van Essen; Seeking a Balance?! The emergence of New Public Management in new hospital payment systems in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom; 7 October 2009.
• Dr. J.B. de Raadt; Political Conflict over Institutional Design and Change in Developing European Democracies; 10 December 2009.

2008

• Dr. B. Vis; Biting the bullet or steering clear? Politics of (not-) unpopularwelfare state reform in advanced capitalist democracies; 13 May 2008; Cum Laude. 
• Dr. A. Wigger; Competition for Competetiveness: The Politics of the Transformation of the EU Competition Regime; 19 June 2008.

2007

• Dr. C.E.de Vries; European integration and national elections. The impact of EU issue voting on national electoral politics; 27 September 2007; Cum Laude

2006

• Dr. T.E. Aalberts; Politics of sovereignity; 7 June 2006

Department of Political Science