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
  1. 2015
  2. Keyonte: Max Kaase: Researcher, Builder, Leader and Human Person – A Tribute to a Stellar Career

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    22.06.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Tagung der GPJE 2015

    Tonio Oeftering (Participant)

    11.06.201513.06.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  4. 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

  5. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2015

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    21.05.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Boston University

    Esther Marie Seha (Visiting researcher)

    01.05.201531.07.2015

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  7. Max Kaase: Researcher, Builder, Leader and Human Person - A Tribute to a Stellar Career

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    05.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. Was sind epistemische Regime?

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    28.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  9. 73d Annual COnference of the Midwest Political Science Association - MPSA 2015

    Ina Kubbe (Speaker)

    16.04.201519.04.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Konferenz „Politische Kommunikation und Interessenvertretung erleben”

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Organiser)

    16.04.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  11. Experiments in Social Sciences: Method School

    Ina Kubbe (Lecturer)

    10.04.201511.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  12. Key Lecture: The Civic Culture Transformed: From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    07.04.201510.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  13. The Civic Culture Transformed: From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  14. Interdisziplinäre Tagung Kompetenz zum Widerstand: Eine vernachlässigte Bildungsaufgabe - 2015

    Tonio Oeftering (Participant)

    25.03.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  15. "Kritik und Widerstand - fachdidaktische Reflexionen"

    Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)

    25.03.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  16. Kritik und Widerstand - fachdidaktische Reflexionen

    Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)

    25.03.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  17. Jahreskolloquium 2015 der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung - AFK 2015

    Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Moderator)

    19.03.201521.03.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. Guest Lecture: Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    18.03.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  19. Just Leave Us Alone: The Arab League and Human Rights

    Vera van Hüllen (presenter)

    07.03.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  20. Why Being Democratic is Just Not Enough: The EU’s Governance Transfer

    Vera van Hüllen (presenter) & Tanja A. Börzel (Coauthor)

    07.03.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  21. Sachverständige im Bayerischen Landtag: Ausschuss für Kommunale Fragen, Innere Sicherheit und Sport

    Marion Reiser (Reviewer)

    04.03.2015

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantTransfer

  22. Guest Lecture: Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    03.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  23. 6. Leuphana Konferenzwoche 2015

    Tonio Oeftering (Participant)

    26.02.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  24. Tel Aviv University

    Ina Kubbe (Visiting researcher)

    26.02.201506.04.2015

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  25. Tagung der Sektion Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft - DVPW 2015

    Ina Kubbe (Organiser) & Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Participant)

    25.02.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  26. Verfassungspolitik in Albanien: Machtinstrument oder heilige Kuh?

    Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann (presenter)

    25.02.201527.02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  27. Guest Lecture: Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    24.02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  28. Annual Convention of the International Studies Association 2015

    Vera van Hüllen (presenter)

    18.02.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  29. ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences: Qualitative Interpretive Methods

    Lena Wach (Participant)

    13.02.201520.02.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  30. Guest Lecture: Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    03.02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  31. Game Theory and Applications for Political Science

    Marcus Kronfeldt (Speaker)

    01.02.201513.02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  32. Guest lecture: Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  33. Politikwissenschaft in den Kulturwissenschaften

    Vera van Hüllen (Panel participant)

    27.01.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  34. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" - 2015

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    15.01.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  35. Politik als Experiment?

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    12.01.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  36. Workshop des Arbeitskreises Natur-Ressourcen-Konflikte - 2015

    Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Participant)

    09.01.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  37. Politikberatung

    Michael Koß (Consultant)

    2015 → …

    Activity: Consultancy

  38. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Marion Reiser (Member)

    2015 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  39. Society for Civic Education Didactics and Civic Youth and Adult Education e.V. (External organisation)

    Tonio Oeftering (Member)

    2015 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsEducation

  40. The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) (External organisation)

    Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Member)

    2015 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  41. Victoria University of Wellington (External organisation)

    Marion Reiser (Coordinator)

    2015 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  42. „Votum – Beiträge aus Politischer Bildung und Politikwissenschaft" (Journal)

    Tonio Oeftering (Editor)

    2015 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsEducation

  43. 2014
  44. Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    16.12.201417.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  45. Can China Escape the Emancipatory Impulse of Modernization?

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    12.12.201413.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  46. Interdisciplinary (Anti-)Corruption Research? Research project planning meets anti-corruption practitioners

    Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)

    11.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  47. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2014

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    04.12.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  48. Corruption in Comparative Perspective

    Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)

    02.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  49. Guest Lecture: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  50. Keynote Lecture: "Can China Escape the Emancipatory Impulse of Modernization?"

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  51. Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    26.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  52. 2nd Interdisciplinary Insights on Fraud and Corruption - I2FC 2014

    Ina Kubbe (presenter)

    22.11.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  53. 57th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association - ASA 2014

    Sebastian Elischer (Speaker)

    21.11.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  54. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2014

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    20.11.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  55. Workshop der HSE

    Christian Welzel (Keynote Speaker)

    10.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  56. 4th Annual Research Conference of the Laboratory of Comparative Social Research - LCSR 2014

    Christian Welzel (Keynote speaker)

    09.11.201413.11.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  57. Understanding Societal Development and Moral Progress: The Contribution of the World Values Surveys

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    05.11.201406.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  58. Briefing Note: "Understanding Societal Development and Moral Progress: The Contribution of the World Values Surveys"

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    11.2014

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

  59. Colloquium Presentation at the Political Science Department, Georg-August-University, Goettingen

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Executive member)

    11.2014

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  61. Keynote Lecture: "How Civilization Turned into Human Empowerment"

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  62. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2014

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    23.10.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  63. Understanding Corruption by Means of Experiments

    Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)

    23.10.201424.10.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  64. Colloquium an der Higher School of Economics

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    15.10.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  65. Annual Meeting, German Political Science Association - Comparative Politics Section 2013

    Christian Welzel (Participant)

    09.10.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  66. Colloquium Presentation: "How Civilization Turned into Human Empowerment"

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    10.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  67. Institute of Political Sciences (Organisational unit)

    Marion Reiser (Office)

    10.2014 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  68. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Marion Reiser (Member)

    10.2014 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  69. Data Analysis: MAXQDA

    Lena Wach (Participant)

    25.09.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  70. Qualitative Research: Interviews

    Lena Wach (Participant)

    22.09.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  71. 24th PhD Summer School on Political Parties in New Democracies

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Organiser), Esther Marie Seha (Organiser) & Ina Kubbe (Organiser)

    07.09.201413.09.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  72. European University, Florenz

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)

    09.201412.2014

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  73. Kolloquium "Politik von unten" - Arbeitskreis soziale Bewegung der DVPW

    Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Participant)

    09.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  74. 110th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition - APSA 2014

    Sebastian Elischer (Participant)

    29.08.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  75. 110th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition - APSA 2014

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    16.08.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  76. Doktorandinnen- und Doktorandenworkshop der Sektion Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

    Ina Kubbe (Organiser)

    19.06.201420.06.2100

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  77. 6. Kolloquium des Nachwuchsnetzwerkes Politische Kommunikation - NaPoKo 2014

    Jessica Sabrina Kunert (Organiser)

    06.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  78. 7. Doktoranden-Workshop des Norddeutsches Netzwerk der Demokratieforschung

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    06.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  79. Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Christian Welzel (Keynote Speaker)

    21.05.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  80. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2015

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    14.05.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  81. Summer Retreat of the BIGSSS 2014

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    05.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  82. Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    28.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  83. Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    09.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  84. 42nd Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research - ECPRJS 2014

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (presenter)

    08.04.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  85. Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    07.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  86. Autocratic Adaptation, Autocratic Legacies and Fundamentalist Islam in Niger

    Sebastian Elischer (Lecturer)

    03.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  87. Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    02.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  88. 4th Annual Research Conference of the Laboratory of Comparative Social Research - LCSR 2014

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    04.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  89. Book Presenation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  90. Book Presentation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  91. Book Presentation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  92. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Member)

    04.201403.2016

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  93. From Sacrificing Life to Living It: Moral Evolution and the Emerging Mass Basis of Global Peace

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    31.03.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  94. Sektionstagung der DVPW Sektion Policy-Analyse und Verwaltungswissenschaft 2014

    Thomas Saretzki (Organiser)

    17.03.201418.03.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  95. “The Bigger Picture of Corruption: A Comparative Analysis of Europe and the Rest of the World”, 03.03.2014.

    Ina Kubbe (Speaker)

    03.03.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  96. Bi-annual General Assembly of the World Values Survey Association - WVS 2014

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    03.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  97. Book Presentation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    03.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  98. Experimentelle Politik?

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    21.02.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  99. Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    12.02.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  100. 5th IPSA Summer School 2014

    Marcus Kronfeldt (Participant)

    02.02.201414.02.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  101. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association - WRSA 2014

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    02.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch