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Redefining tie strength – how social media (can) help us to get non-redundant useful information and emotional support (ReDefTie)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Social media offer us effortless ways to stay in touch with large numbers of individuals. These individuals can be friends (strong ties), acquaintances (weak ties), or people we barely know (absent ties). Decades of social capital research have shown that strong ties are useful because they provide us with emotional support and weak ties are useful because they provide us with non-redundant useful ...
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Causes and Consequences of Multilevel Governance (MLG)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

This five-year research programme is motivated by the question: Why does the structure of government vary, and how does this affect the quality of democracy and governance? The programme estimates and explains the scope and depth of authority exercised by subnational governments and international governmental organizations (IGOs) from 1950 to 2010. This will allow deeper understanding of a major p ...
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