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. Meta analysis as a strategy of evidence-based participation research: The example of the project ‘EDGE’

    Jens Newig (Speaker)

    28.11.2016

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

  2. 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

  3. Methods and Methodologies for Researching Globalization and Development - 2015

    Stefan Kruse (Speaker)

    28.05.201529.05.2015

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

  4. Multi-Level Parties and Local Interest Representation: First Approaches Towards a More Encompassing Research Design

    Marion Reiser (Speaker)

    24.08.201127.08.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling 2018

    Stefan Kruse (Participant)

    11.07.201813.07.2018

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

  6. 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

  7. National Research University - Higher School of Economics

    Christian Welzel (Visiting lecturer)

    2013

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  8. National Research University - Higher School of Economics

    Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)

    2012

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  9. National Research University - Higher School of Economics

    Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)

    2011

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  10. National Research University - Higher School of Economics

    Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)

    2013

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  11. Natur und Landschaft in der niedersächsischen Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel

    Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)

    22.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  12. Negotiating Democracy (Promotion) with Authoritarian Regimes:The EU & North Africa

    Vera van Hüllen (Speaker)

    05.04.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Veit Ebermann (Participant)

    18.10.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  14. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG (Publisher)

    Tonio Oeftering (Editor)

    2017 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesEducation

  15. No participation without representation: demands and supplies on representation in European participatory governance

    Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)

    03.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  16. Online-Diskussion: Deutsche Abschiebungspolitik im Praxistest

    Sybille Münch (Speaker)

    06.05.2020

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

  17. Oslo University

    Marion Reiser (Visiting researcher)

    07.201510.2015

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  18. Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)

    Vera van Hüllen (Editor)

    20132015

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