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. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG (Publisher)

    Tonio Oeftering (Editor)

    2017 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesEducation

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

    Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)

    03.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Online-Diskussion: Deutsche Abschiebungspolitik im Praxistest

    Sybille Münch (Speaker)

    06.05.2020

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

  4. Oslo University

    Marion Reiser (Visiting researcher)

    07.201510.2015

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  5. Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)

    Vera van Hüllen (Editor)

    20132015

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

  6. Paper: The Multilevel Governance of Deportation – is Access to local Membership possible?

    Sybille Münch (Speaker)

    05.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Paths to Power and Legitimacy: The Impact of Legislators’ Experience on Policy-Making in the European Parliament

    Eugenio Salvati (presenter) & Michelangelo Vercesi (presenter)

    29.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch