PhD in Political Science

This fully funded four-year PhD position is part of the VIDI research project “Emotion-Infused Risk Regulation: Rethinking the Fundamentals of Regulatory Governance for Citizen-Centric Rulemaking”, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and led by Dr. Dovilė Rimkutė./nThe VIDI project investigates the role of emotions in regulatory governance, examining how emotions shape both regulators’ formulation of rules and citizens’ reception of regulatory responses. It is structured around three interlinked objectives: (1) Emotion and Regulatory Responsiveness; (2) Citizens’ Emotional Responses in Regulatory Encounters; (3) Emotions and Regulatory Legitimacy./nThe PhD project will contribute to the emerging research agenda on affective regulatory governance with a particular focus on regulatory responsiveness to citizens’ emotionally charged concerns. The project will analyze these dynamics across different regulatory domains and multiple levels of the EU governance system and employs a rigorous mixed-methods design, combining survey experiments with interviews involving top-level EU and national regulators./nLocation: Amsterdam. Employed at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration within the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.