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 Political Science Association (External organisation)

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Member)

    01.09.20182020

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  2. International Political Science Association - IPSA 2003

    Marion Reiser (Speaker)

    29.06.200304.07.2003

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. 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

  4. 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

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

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    06.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. 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

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

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Executive member)

    11.2014

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

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

    Ina Kubbe (Lecturer)

    10.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)

    11.10.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. Is Neoliberalism Still Spreading?

    Lukas Hakelberg (Speaker)

    11.06.201813.06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer