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
Forschungskolloquium "EU Governance and Civil Society and the Eastern Enlargement”, Forschungsstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen
Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)
2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Forschungskolloquium "EU Governance and Civil Society and the Eastern Enlargement”, Forschungsstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen
Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)
09.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Fortschritt bis zum Kollaps: Wie Zivilisationen an ökologischen Grenzen scheitern können
Marcus Kronfeldt (Lecturer)
10.12.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Fracking comes to Germany: Interpreting societal conflicts, the politics of expertise and strategies for conflict resolution in a federal system: with Basil Bornemann
Thomas Saretzki (Oral presentation)
03.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
16.12.2014 → 17.12.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)
26.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)
28.04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)
09.04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Christian Welzel (Lecturer)
07.04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Christian Welzel (Lecturer)
02.04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)
12.02.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)
09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Christian Welzel (Keynote Speaker)
21.05.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
From Local Politics to Europe: Political Careers on Different Levels
Marion Reiser (Speaker)
20.10.2005 → 22.10.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
From Sacrificing Life to Living It: Moral Evolution and the Emerging Mass Basis of Global Peace
Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)
31.03.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Frühjahrstagung der Sektion Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft - DVPW PTI 2013
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
21.03.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Game Theory and Applications for Political Science
Marcus Kronfeldt (Speaker)
01.02.2015 → 13.02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
General Online Research Conference 2010
Jessica Sabrina Kunert (Speaker)
28.05.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
German National Academic Foundation (External organisation)
Jens Newig (Office)
2014 → 2022Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
German Political Science Association e.V. (External organisation)
Vera van Hüllen (Office)
24.09.2015 → 2018Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
German Political Science Association e.V. (External organisation)
Thomas Saretzki (Member)
2017 → 2022Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
German Political Science Association e.V. (External organisation)
Vera van Hüllen (Office)
2018 → 2021Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
German Political Science Association e.V. (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2007 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
German Political Science Association e.V. (External organisation)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Member)
01.11.2016 → 30.10.2018Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
German Research Foundation (DFG) (External organisation)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Member)
2012 → 2015Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Research
"Gestaltbarkeit aller Lebensbereiche. Der Bildungswert der Lebensweltorientierung für die sozio-ökonomische Bildung."
Tonio Oeftering (Speaker)
17.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Gründungstagung der Sektion Methoden der Politikwissenschaft der Deutschen vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft - DVPW 2012
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Participant)
09.02.2012 → 11.02.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Guest lecture: Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Christian Welzel (Lecturer)
02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Guest Lecture: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"
Christian Welzel (Lecturer)
12.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Guest Lecture: Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Christian Welzel (Lecturer)
18.03.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Guest Lecture: Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Christian Welzel (Lecturer)
24.02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Guest Lecture: Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
03.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Guest Lecture: Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
03.02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Hamburger interkulturelle Beratungsstellen für Opfer von häuslicher Gewalt und Zwangsheirat LÂLE und verikom-i.bera der Träger Interkulturelle Begegnungsstätte e.V. und verikom e.V.
Tina Alicke (Reviewer) & Sybille Münch (Reviewer)
06.2011Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
Hannah Arendts Begriff des Politischen als Unterrichtsleitbild der politischen Bildung?
Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)
28.05.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
"Hannah Arendts 'Wahrheit und Politik' - eine fachdidaktische Lektüre vor dem Hintergrund des aufziehenden Zeitalters der 'postfaktischen Politik'
Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)
06.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Hannah Arendt und die ‚Aporien der Menschenrechte“
Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)
28.04.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Herbsttagung der DVPW Sektion „Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte“ 2017
Thomas Saretzki (Participant)
28.09.2017 → 29.09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Herbsttagung der Sektion Politische Theorie und Ideenbeschichte - DVPW 2013
Thomas Saretzki (Moderator)
26.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Herbsttagung des Arbeitskreises Lokale Politikforschung der DVPW ‚Der Rat, der Bürgermeister und seine Partei – Das kommunale ‚Dreigestirn‘ im Bundesländervergleich
Marion Reiser (Speaker)
15.09.2005 → 16.09.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Higher School of Economics St. Petersburg
Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)
23.04.2012 → 27.04.2012Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
Higher School of Economics St. Petersburg
Ina Kubbe (Visiting researcher)
05.2008 → 06.2008Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Hitze in der Stadt - Strategien für eine klimaangepasste Stadtentwicklung - ExWoSt-Zwischenkonferenz 2011
Veit Ebermann (Participant)
15.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Hochschulöffentlicher Vortrag: "Citizenship Education and Student Protests - Einblicke in ein binationales Forschungsprojekt zum Thema Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany"
Tonio Oeftering (Speaker)
15.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Hochschulöffentlicher Vortrag: Citizenship Education and Student Protests - Einblicke in ein binationales Forschungsprojekt zum Thema Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany"
Tonio Oeftering (Speaker)
28.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Hochschulöffentlicher Vortrag: Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany - Einblicke in ein aktuelles binationales Forschungsprojekt
Tonio Oeftering (Speaker)
14.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Hochschulöffentlicher Vortrag : "Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany - Einblicke in ein aktuelles Forschungsprojekt."
Tonio Oeftering (Speaker)
31.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Hochschulöffentlicher Vortrag: "Was ist politische Bildung" Eine qualitative Studie zu den Vorstellungen von Lehramtsstudierenden."
Tonio Oeftering (Speaker)
13.07.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
How Can We Measure Party Institutionalisation in Times of Personal Politics? A New Index and the Case of the Italian 5SM
Michelangelo Vercesi (Speaker)
13.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Human Empowerment as an Analytical Framework to Study Social and Political Change
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
28.01.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Independent local lists and local parties - Challengers from Bottom Up? - 2009
Marion Reiser (Speaker)
27.11.2009 → 28.11.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Inklusion und Politische Bildung - Thesen
Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)
07.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Institute of Political Sciences (Organisational unit)
Marion Reiser (Chair)
18.10.2016 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Institute of Political Sciences (Organisational unit)
Marion Reiser (Office)
10.2014 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Institute of Sustainability Governance (Organisational unit)
Jens Newig (Chair)
2019 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Integrativ-strategische Politikfelder für den Umgang mit Komplexität?
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
21.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Intensive Quantitative Methods Course for PhD students, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Stefan Kruse (Lecturer)
13.05.2019 → 18.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Interactions between social movements and international organisations
Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Participant)
06.05.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Interdisciplinary (Anti-)Corruption Research? Research project planning meets anti-corruption practitioners
Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)
11.12.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Interdisziplinäre Tagung Kompetenz zum Widerstand: Eine vernachlässigte Bildungsaufgabe - 2015
Tonio Oeftering (Participant)
25.03.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
International Biennial Conference - EUSA 2019
Michelangelo Vercesi (Chair)
09.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Closing Conference of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700
Vera van Hüllen (Speaker)
22.06.2017 → 24.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Internationale Konferenz "Macht – Medien – Mitteleuropa: Dimensionen der Macht und mediales Spektakel" - 2013
Björn Buß (Speaker)
19.09.2013 → 20.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Internationale Tagung des SFB 580 "Independent Local Lists – A comparative perspective" - 2007
Marion Reiser (Speaker)
13.04.2007 → 14.04.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International experience and recommendations
Michael Koß (Oral presentation)
09.12.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
International Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Authoritarian Regimes Between Commitment and Compliance
Vera van Hüllen (Speaker)
06.04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
International Political Science Association (External organisation)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Member)
01.09.2018 → 2020Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
International Political Science Association - IPSA 2003
Marion Reiser (Speaker)
29.06.2003 → 04.07.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Workshop: Contestation of hydraulic fracking in Europe and the USA: policies, publics and democracy - 2013
Thomas Saretzki (Organiser)
10.10.2013 → 12.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Workshop "Expanding the TA landscape in Europe" - PACITA 2012
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
15.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Interpreting challenges to democracy as stress: Conceptual implications and analytical perspectives
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
06.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program in Quantitative Methods - 2019
Stefan Kruse (Participant)
22.07.2019 → 18.08.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
IPSA Research Committee on Political Sociology (External organisation)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Executive member)
11.2014Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
„Is it all about profit? Corruption in European Comparative Perspective”
Ina Kubbe (Lecturer)
10.11.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Is it all about profit?: Corruption in European Comparative Perspective
Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)
11.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Is Neoliberalism Still Spreading?
Lukas Hakelberg (Speaker)
11.06.2018 → 13.06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
“It’s all about profit: Determinants of Corruption in European Comparative Perspective”
Ina Kubbe (Lecturer)
11.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Jahreskolloquium 2015 der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung - AFK 2015
Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Moderator)
19.03.2015 → 21.03.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Jahrestagung 2005 des Arbeitskreises Parteienforschung der DVPW
Marion Reiser (Speaker)
02.06.2005 → 03.06.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgruppe "Außerschulische politische Jugendbildung und politische Erwachsenenbildung" der GPJE
Lena Wach (Speaker)
17.11.2016 → 18.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgruppe Hermeneutische Politikdidaktik der GPJE 2017
Tonio Oeftering (Participant)
06.05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Jahrestagung der GPJE 2017
Tonio Oeftering (Participant) & Julia Oppermann (Participant)
22.06.2017 → 24.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Parteienforschung 2016
Marion Reiser (Speaker)
14.10.2016 → 15.10.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Jornada de Comportament Polític i Opinió Pública 2017
Xavier Romero (Speaker)
03.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Journal of Common Market Studies (Journal)
Tobias Lenz (Reviewer)
04.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Journal of European Integration (Journal)
Tobias Lenz (Reviewer)
02.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Journal of European Public Policy (Journal)
Dawid Friedrich (Editor) & Sandra Kröger (Editorial Board)
2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of unfinished anthology/collection › Research
Just Leave Us Alone: The Arab League and Human Rights
Vera van Hüllen (presenter)
07.03.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Key Lecture: "Human Empowerment as an Analytical Framework to Study Social and Political Change"
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
01.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Key Lecture: The Civic Culture Transformed: From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens
Christian Welzel (Lecturer)
07.04.2015 → 10.04.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Keynote: "From Sacrificing Life to Living It: Moral Evolution and the Emerging Mass Basis of Global Peace"
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
03.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Keynote Lecture: "Can China Escape the Emancipatory Impulse of Modernization?"
Christian Welzel (Lecturer)
12.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Keynote Lecture: "How Civilization Turned into Human Empowerment"
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Keyonte: Max Kaase: Researcher, Builder, Leader and Human Person – A Tribute to a Stellar Career
Christian Welzel (Lecturer)
22.06.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Kinderuni 2016
Tonio Oeftering (Speaker)
19.11.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Klausurtagung niedersächsische Regierungskommission "Klimaschutz"
Veit Ebermann (Consultant)
29.06.2011Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
Klimawandel und Demokratie: Kipppunkte der Problembewältigung und Konfliktregelung?
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
10.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Klimawandel - Was können wir tun? Anpassungsempfehlungen für Niedersachsen: (gem. mit Sabine Strube-Neumann, Nds. Ministerium für Umwelt, Energie und Klimaschutz)
Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)
11.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Kolloquium "Politik von unten" - Arbeitskreis soziale Bewegung der DVPW
Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Participant)
09.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Konferenz des European Consortium for Political Research's Standing Group on International Relations - 2010
Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)
09.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research