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Professor Corien Prins uses Stevin Prize to stimulate science-informed policymaking
05th October 2023On October 4, 2023, Professor of Law and Information Technology Corien Prins officially received the NWO Stevin Prize in The Hague. Prins wants to use the prize money to help improve the experience with and insight into science-informed government policymaking.
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Representative democracy benefits from new combinations of deliberation and voting
13th September 2023Persistent problems of representative democracy can be addressed with clever combinations of deliberation and voting, for Dutch democracy particularly: the structural complaint of citizens that they are not heard and seen and the 'stop and go' culture of governing. So argues Frank Hendriks, Professor of Comparative Governance at Tilburg University, whose book Rethinking Democratic Innovation came out recently.
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Inaugural address Pieter Huisman: 'Regulation of behavior in education requires caution'
12th September 2023The protection of the social safety and integrity of pupils and students is a basic condition for the right to education to come to fruition, but its regulation by the Dutch government and its elaboration in all kinds of codes and rules requires caution. In the first instance, it is up to the educational institutions themselves to discuss appropriate and inappropriate behavior with each other, based on the shared values and foundations of the institution.