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. International Biennial Conference - EUSA 2019

    Michelangelo Vercesi (Chair)

    09.05.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  2. International Closing Conference of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700

    Vera van Hüllen (Speaker)

    22.06.201724.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. 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

  4. Internationale Tagung des SFB 580 "Independent Local Lists – A comparative perspective" - 2007

    Marion Reiser (Speaker)

    13.04.200714.04.2007

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. International experience and recommendations

    Michael Koß (Oral presentation)

    09.12.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. International Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Authoritarian Regimes Between Commitment and Compliance

    Vera van Hüllen (Speaker)

    06.04.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  7. International Political Science Association (External organisation)

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Member)

    01.09.20182020

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  8. International Political Science Association - IPSA 2003

    Marion Reiser (Speaker)

    29.06.200304.07.2003

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Interpreting challenges to democracy as stress: Conceptual implications and analytical perspectives

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    06.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program in Quantitative Methods - 2019

    Stefan Kruse (Participant)

    22.07.201918.08.2019

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

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

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Executive member)

    11.2014

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

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

    Ina Kubbe (Lecturer)

    10.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)

    11.10.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  16. Is Neoliberalism Still Spreading?

    Lukas Hakelberg (Speaker)

    11.06.201813.06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  17. “It’s all about profit: Determinants of Corruption in European Comparative Perspective”

    Ina Kubbe (Lecturer)

    11.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  18. Jahreskolloquium 2015 der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung - AFK 2015

    Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Moderator)

    19.03.201521.03.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  19. Jahrestagung 2005 des Arbeitskreises Parteienforschung der DVPW

    Marion Reiser (Speaker)

    02.06.200503.06.2005

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  20. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgruppe "Außerschulische politische Jugendbildung und politische Erwachsenenbildung" der GPJE

    Lena Wach (Speaker)

    17.11.201618.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch