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. European Consortium for Political Research Summer School - ECPR 2015

    Marion Reiser (Organiser)

    13.09.201519.09.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  2. European Summer School in Local Government Studies 2002

    Marion Reiser (Speaker)

    17.07.200226.07.2002

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. European University, Florenz

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)

    09.201412.2014

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  4. European University, Florenz

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)

    01.2019

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  5. EU-SPRI Early Career Researcher Conference - ECC 2012

    Miriam Hufnagl (Speaker)

    09.05.201211.05.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Evidence-based policy-making? Die Bedeutung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse in politischen Prozessen

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    24.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  7. Experimentelle Politik?

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    21.02.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. Experiments in Social Sciences: Method School

    Ina Kubbe (Lecturer)

    10.04.201511.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  9. Explaining the performance of participatory and collaborative governance in addressing long-term environmental policy issues

    Jens Newig (Speaker), Michael Rose (Coauthor) & Nicolas Wilhelm Jager (Coauthor)

    28.06.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. 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