Political Science

Overview

As a Political Science PhD student at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Social Science Research, you will be part of a vibrant community that values your growth and development.

We offer coaching, training, and a strong PhD Community to support you throughout your doctoral journey. We encourage our students to publish their research early in their careers, enhancing their academic profiles and fostering their future career prospects.

Research groups

Challenges to Democratic Representation

• The research program Challenges to Democracy studies the consequences of current political developments and their historical roots for democratic governance. How do democratic regimes maintain political stability? To what extent can they deliver political equality, legitimacy and prevent societal polarization?

Political Economy and Transnational Governance

• Ongoing trends towards transnational integration of markets and economic transactions are giving rise to far-­reaching transformations of governance both within and beyond the nation-state.
• The Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV) programme group focuses on the drivers, dynamics, and consequences of these epochal developments in political and economic life.

Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance

• In recent decades, there has been a growing divergence between the organisation of society and the inherited conceptual framework of the 20th century political sciences.
• The Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance group seeks to re-examine established notions of identities, categorizations and boundaries defined by classical political science concepts through different forms of empirical investigation.