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Das Institut für Politikwissenschaft bzw. das Zentrum für Demokratieforschung (ZDEMO) beschäftigt sich mit der Analyse demokratischer Strukturen und Prozesse in Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Umwelt. Kernthema der Forschung sind Fragen von Legitimität und Leistungsfähigkeit der Demokratien im 21. Jahrhunert. Das Institut/das Zentrum erforscht diese unter drei wesentlichen Gesichtspunkten: 1. Wertewandel und Human Empowerment; 2. Parteienregierung und institutioneller Wandel sowie 3. Beteiligung und öffentliche Politik. Neben der Forschung engagiert sich das Institut/das Zentrum aktiv in der wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchsförderung sowie der internationalen und regionalen Vernetzung von Einrichtungen und Personen der Demokratieforschung.

Service offers

  • PHD-Summerschool
  • Politikberatung
  1. 2014
  2. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2014

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    16.01.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Wahrheit und Wahrhaftigkeit

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    14.01.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  4. University of Siena

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)

    01.01.201415.02.2014

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  5. Key Lecture: "Human Empowerment as an Analytical Framework to Study Social and Political Change"

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    01.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. University of California, Irvine

    Ina Kubbe (Visiting researcher)

    01.201404.2014

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  7. Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (External organisation)

    Michael Koß (Member)

    20142019

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  8. Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (External organisation)

    Michael Koß (Member)

    20142019

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  9. Professor Müller-Rommel im internationalem Beirat am European University Institute, Florenz

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Consultant)

    2014

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  10. Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica (Journal)

    Michael Koß (Editorial Board)

    2014 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  11. University of California, Irvine

    Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)

    2014

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  12. 2013
  13. Annual International Conference of the Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe" - KFG 2013

    Vera van Hüllen (presenter)

    12.12.201314.12.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  14. Containing and Accomodating Salafism in the Sahel: Insights and Lessons from Niger

    Sebastian Elischer (Oral presentation)

    12.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  15. Fortschritt bis zum Kollaps: Wie Zivilisationen an ökologischen Grenzen scheitern können

    Marcus Kronfeldt (Lecturer)

    10.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  16. Was heißt "kritische" Politikwissenschaft?

    Thomas Saretzki (Panel participant)

    28.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  17. Exporting (Good) Governance: Regional Organizations and Areas of Limited Statehood - 2013

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    15.11.201316.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. „Is it all about profit? Corruption in European Comparative Perspective”

    Ina Kubbe (Lecturer)

    10.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  19. University of Birmingham

    Marion Reiser (Visiting researcher)

    11.2013

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  20. University of Siena

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)

    11.201312.2013

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  21. Entwicklung der niedersächsichen Strategie zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel

    Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)

    30.10.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  22. Workshop "External Actors’ Responses to the Arab Spring The EU in Comparative Perspective" - 2013

    Vera van Hüllen (presenter)

    25.10.201326.10.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  23. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2015

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    24.10.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  24. Is it all about profit?: Corruption in European Comparative Perspective

    Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)

    11.10.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  25. International Workshop: Contestation of hydraulic fracking in Europe and the USA: policies, publics and democracy - 2013

    Thomas Saretzki (Organiser)

    10.10.201312.10.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  26. Annual Meeting, German Political Science Association - Comparative Politics Section 2013

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    09.10.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  27. Die Wahrnehmung zur Legitimität in der EU: Kongruenz oder Inkongruenz von Eliten und Bürgerkultur?

    Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann (presenter)

    09.10.201311.10.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  28. Late Summer School, Graduate School of Politics, Münster: Qualitative Analysis of Interview Data - 2013

    Lena Wach (Participant)

    07.10.201309.10.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  29. Global Economic Symposium - GES 2013

    Stefan Kruse (Participant)

    01.10.201302.10.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  30. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" - 2013

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    10.2013 → …

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  31. Coming to Terms with the Imperial Presidency? Constitutional Reform in Kenya

    Sebastian Elischer (Oral presentation)

    27.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  32. Herbsttagung der Sektion Politische Theorie und Ideenbeschichte - DVPW 2013

    Thomas Saretzki (Moderator)

    26.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  33. Summer School der Philosophischen Fakultät der Leibniz-Universität Hannover - 2013

    Veit Ebermann (Participant)

    26.09.201327.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  34. Methodenworkshop: Einführung in die Grounded-Theory-Methodologie (GTM) - 2013

    Veit Ebermann (Participant)

    23.09.201324.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  35. Integrativ-strategische Politikfelder für den Umgang mit Komplexität?

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    21.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  36. 3-Länder-Tagung Politikwissenschaft - 2013

    Veit Ebermann (Participant)

    19.09.201321.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  37. Internationale Konferenz "Macht – Medien – Mitteleuropa: Dimensionen der Macht und mediales Spektakel" - 2013

    Björn Buß (Speaker)

    19.09.201320.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  38. Political Communication in times of crisis - 2013

    Björn Buß (presenter)

    12.09.201313.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  39. 23rd Eu­ro­pean Con­sor­ti­um for Po­li­ti­cal Re­se­arch Summer School on Political Parties and Democracy - ECPR 2013

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Organiser)

    07.09.201322.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  40. Inklusion und Politische Bildung - Thesen

    Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)

    07.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  41. 7. General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research - ECPR 2013

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    06.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  42. Strategieentwicklung in der Klimaanpassungspolitik: Niedersachsen und Bayern im Vergleich

    Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)

    03.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  43. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association - APSA 2013

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    29.08.201301.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  44. Regional Organizations and Domestic Change in the 'Arab Spring': Cooperation between Power and Persuasion

    Vera van Hüllen (presenter)

    29.08.201301.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  45. State-Building and the European Union's Fight against Corruption in the Southern Caucasus

    Vera van Hüllen (presenter) & Tanja A. Börzel (presenter)

    29.08.201301.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  46. 8th GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology - 2013

    Stefan Kruse (Participant)

    15.08.201330.08.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  47. Politische Steuerung von Technisierungsprozessen?

    Thomas Saretzki (Lecturer)

    13.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  48. Multivariate Statistical Analysis and Comparative Cross-National Surveys Data - 2013

    Marcus Kronfeldt (Participant)

    28.07.201311.08.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  49. Speaking with a Single Voice: Internal Cohesiveness and External Effectiveness of the EU in World Politics, Workshop an der TU Dresden - 2013

    Vera van Hüllen (presenter)

    23.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  50. 1st International Summer School on Evolution

    Marcus Kronfeldt (Participant)

    15.07.201319.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  51. Annual IPSA-NUS Summer School for Social Science Research Methods

    Ina Kubbe (Speaker)

    15.07.201327.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  52. 8th International Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference - IPA 2013

    Thomas Saretzki (Chair)

    03.07.201305.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  53. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) - 2015

    Stefan Kruse (Participant)

    30.06.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  54. The Politics and Economics of Aid Summer School - POLECAID 2013

    Stefan Kruse (Participant)

    24.06.201305.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  55. Event History Analysis and Applications Using STATA - 2013

    Stefan Kruse (Participant)

    13.06.201314.06.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  56. Small N-Analysis and process tracing - GIGA Workshop 2013

    Stefan Kruse (Participant)

    03.06.201304.06.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  57. 21. Tagung Junger Osteuropaexperten - DGO JOE 2013

    Björn Buß (Organiser)

    31.05.201302.06.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  58. 6. Doktorandenworkshop des Netzwerks Norddeutscher Demokratieforschung - NND 2013

    Thomas Saretzki (Organiser)

    31.05.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  59. Large N-Analysis and Regression Workshop - 2015

    Stefan Kruse (Participant)

    28.05.201329.05.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  60. Entwicklung von Klimaanpassungsstrategien in föderalen Politiksystemen: der Fall Niedersachsen

    Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)

    17.05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  61. Politikwissenschaftliche Strategieanalyse als akteurorientierte Prozessforschung

    Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)

    16.05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  62. Biennial International Conference of the European Union Studies Association - EUSA 2016

    Vera van Hüllen (Coauthor) & Tanja A. Börzel (Speaker)

    09.05.201311.05.2100

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  63. 23rd Eu­ro­pean Con­sor­ti­um for Po­li­ti­cal Re­se­arch Summer School on Political Parties and Democracy - ECPR 2013

    Esther Marie Seha (Organiser) & Ina Kubbe (Organiser)

    01.05.201330.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  64. Workshop on “The Design of International Institutions: Theory Meets Data” - 2013

    Vera van Hüllen (presenter)

    26.04.201327.04.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  65. What is Human Rights Education? Scientific and didactic perspectives.

    Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)

    22.04.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  66. 54th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association - ISA 2013

    Vera van Hüllen (Chair)

    03.04.201306.04.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  67. State-Building and the European Union’s Fight against Corruption in the Southern Caucasus

    Vera van Hüllen (Speaker)

    03.04.201306.04.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  68. The EU’s Governance Transfer. From External Promotion to Internal Protection?

    Vera van Hüllen (Speaker)

    03.04.201306.04.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  69. Comparative Politics (Journal)

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Editor)

    01.04.20132015

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  70. The Rise of Izala Islam in Niger

    Sebastian Elischer (Oral presentation)

    25.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  71. 3rd European Conference on Politics and Gender - ECPG 2013

    Henrike Knappe (Speaker)

    23.03.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  72. Frühjahrstagung der Sektion Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft - DVPW PTI 2013

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    21.03.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  73. Analysis of Climate Adaptation Strategy Development: Strategy-Making in the German Länder - The Cases of Lower Saxony and Bavaria

    Veit Ebermann (presenter)

    18.03.201320.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  74. 17th Workshop: Electoral Quotas and Political Representation: Comparative Perspectives - ECPR 2013

    Marion Reiser (Speaker)

    11.03.201316.03.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  75. Strategie-Workshops „Strategische Mehrheit der Union und Probleme des Machtwechselsmit" - 2013

    Ralf Tils (Organiser)

    21.02.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  76. Séminaire evoREG: Innovation, connectivité et évolution : quelles perspectives et politiques pour le Rhin Supérieur? - evoREG 2013

    Miriam Hufnagl (Speaker)

    23.01.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  77. Doktorandenkurs: Fallauswahl und komparative Methoden in den Sozialwissenschaften - 2013

    Veit Ebermann (Participant)

    18.01.201325.01.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  78. 3rd International Conference on Democracy as Idea and Practice

    Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)

    10.01.201311.01.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  79. University of North Carolina

    Tobias Lenz (Visiting researcher)

    01.201304.2013

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  80. Cambridge University Press (Publisher)

    Christian Welzel (Editor)

    2013

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of unfinished anthology/collectionResearch

  81. Journal of European Public Policy (Journal)

    Dawid Friedrich (Editor) & Sandra Kröger (Editorial Board)

    2013

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of unfinished anthology/collectionResearch

  82. National Research University - Higher School of Economics

    Christian Welzel (Visiting lecturer)

    2013

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  83. National Research University - Higher School of Economics

    Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)

    2013

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  84. Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)

    Vera van Hüllen (Editor)

    20132015

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of unfinished anthology/collectionResearch

  85. University of California, Irvine

    Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)

    2013

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  86. 2012
  87. Silvio Berlusconi and Post-modern Politics one day conference 2012

    Michelangelo Vercesi (presenter)

    14.12.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  88. 55th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association - ASA 2012

    Sebastian Elischer (Speaker)

    03.12.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  89. Wer oder was macht mich zur Persönlichkeit?

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    27.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  90. 4th Department for Business and Politics Paper Seminar 2012

    Miriam Hufnagl (Speaker)

    22.11.201223.11.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  91. 6. Workshop des Netzwerks Sozialwissenschaftliche Klimaanpassungsforschung 2012

    Veit Ebermann (Participant)

    22.11.201223.11.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  92. Entwicklung von Klimaanpassungsstrategien auf Länderebene: ein Fallstudienvergleich

    Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)

    21.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  93. Workshop Relevanz regionaler Aktivitäten für Hochschulen und das Wissenschaftssystem 2012

    Miriam Hufnagl (Speaker)

    20.11.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  94. Verfassungsreform in Kenia

    Sebastian Elischer (Lecturer)

    17.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  95. International Workshop "Expanding the TA landscape in Europe" - PACITA 2012

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    15.11.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  96. Wirtschaftsfaktor Hochschule: Endbericht zur Metastudie

    Miriam Hufnagl (Reviewer), Torben Schubert (Reviewer), Elisabeth Baier (Reviewer), Niclas Meyer (Reviewer), Esther Schricke (Reviewer) & Thomas Stahlecker (Reviewer)

    07.11.2012

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantTransfer

  97. NNA-Forum "Klimaschutz in Niedersachsen (II)" 2012

    Veit Ebermann (Participant)

    18.10.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  98. Teilnahme Sitzung DFG-Fachkollegium Politikwissenschaft

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Reviewer)

    18.10.2012

    Activity: Other expert activitiesPeer review of project proposalsResearch

  99. Workshop: Representative Democracy in the 21st Century 2012

    Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)

    10.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  100. Politikfelder als Strategie? Genese, Grenze und Dynamik der Klima- und Nachhaltigkeitspolitik

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker) & Ralf Tils (Speaker)

    26.09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  101. 25. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der DVPW 2012

    Ina Kubbe (Moderator)

    24.09.201228.09.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch