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. Briefing Note: "Understanding Societal Development and Moral Progress: The Contribution of the World Values Surveys"

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  3. Colloquium Presentation at the Political Science Department, Georg-August-University, Goettingen

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. IPSA Research Committee on Political Sociology (External organisation)

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Executive member)

    11.2014

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  5. Keynote Lecture: "How Civilization Turned into Human Empowerment"

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Understanding Societal Development and Moral Progress: The Contribution of the World Values Surveys

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    05.11.201406.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. 4th Annual Research Conference of the Laboratory of Comparative Social Research - LCSR 2014

    Christian Welzel (Keynote speaker)

    09.11.201413.11.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Workshop der HSE

    Christian Welzel (Keynote Speaker)

    10.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2014

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    20.11.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. 57th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association - ASA 2014

    Sebastian Elischer (Speaker)

    21.11.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. 2nd Interdisciplinary Insights on Fraud and Corruption - I2FC 2014

    Ina Kubbe (presenter)

    22.11.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    26.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  13. Guest Lecture: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  14. Keynote Lecture: "Can China Escape the Emancipatory Impulse of Modernization?"

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  15. Corruption in Comparative Perspective

    Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)

    02.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  16. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2014

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    04.12.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  17. Interdisciplinary (Anti-)Corruption Research? Research project planning meets anti-corruption practitioners

    Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)

    11.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  18. Can China Escape the Emancipatory Impulse of Modernization?

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    12.12.201413.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    16.12.201417.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  20. 2015
  21. Politikberatung

    Michael Koß (Consultant)

    2015 → …

    Activity: Consultancy

  22. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Marion Reiser (Member)

    2015 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees