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