Center for the Study of Democracy

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) at Leuphana University Lüneburg conducts research on democratic structures and procedures in politics and society, economics and the environment. The central focus of research is on questions of legitimacy and performance of democracy in the 21st century. The Center's research activities focus on three main areas: Value Change and Human Empowerment, Party Government and Institutional Change and Participation and Public Policy. In addition, the CSD engages in active promotion of younger researchers as well as in international and regional networking of democracy research institutions.

Topics

  • Value Change and Human Empowerment
  • Party Government and Institutional Change
  • Participation and Public Policy

Service offers

  • PHD-Summerschool
  • Politikberatung
  1. 2014
  2. Summer Retreat of the BIGSSS 2014

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    05.2014

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

  3. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2015

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    14.05.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Christian Welzel (Keynote Speaker)

    21.05.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. 6. Kolloquium des Nachwuchsnetzwerkes Politische Kommunikation - NaPoKo 2014

    Jessica Sabrina Kunert (Organiser)

    06.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. 7. Doktoranden-Workshop des Norddeutsches Netzwerk der Demokratieforschung

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    06.2014

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

  7. Doktorandinnen- und Doktorandenworkshop der Sektion Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

    Ina Kubbe (Organiser)

    19.06.201420.06.2100

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. 110th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition - APSA 2014

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    16.08.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. 110th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition - APSA 2014

    Sebastian Elischer (Participant)

    29.08.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. European University, Florenz

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)

    09.201412.2014

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  11. Kolloquium "Politik von unten" - Arbeitskreis soziale Bewegung der DVPW

    Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Participant)

    09.2014

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

  12. 24th PhD Summer School on Political Parties in New Democracies

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Organiser), Esther Marie Seha (Organiser) & Ina Kubbe (Organiser)

    07.09.201413.09.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  13. Qualitative Research: Interviews

    Lena Wach (Participant)

    22.09.2014

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

  14. Data Analysis: MAXQDA

    Lena Wach (Participant)

    25.09.2014

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

  15. Colloquium Presentation: "How Civilization Turned into Human Empowerment"

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    10.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  16. Institute of Political Sciences (Organisational unit)

    Marion Reiser (Office)

    10.2014 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  17. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Marion Reiser (Member)

    10.2014 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

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

    Christian Welzel (Participant)

    09.10.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  19. Colloquium an der Higher School of Economics

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    15.10.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  20. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2014

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    23.10.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  21. Understanding Corruption by Means of Experiments

    Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)

    23.10.201424.10.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch