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. 2015
  2. Guest Lecture: Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    03.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. 6. Leuphana Konferenzwoche 2015

    Tonio Oeftering (Participant)

    26.02.2015

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

  4. Tel Aviv University

    Ina Kubbe (Visiting researcher)

    26.02.201506.04.2015

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  5. 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

  6. Verfassungspolitik in Albanien: Machtinstrument oder heilige Kuh?

    Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann (presenter)

    25.02.201527.02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

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

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    24.02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. 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

  9. 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

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

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    03.02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  11. Game Theory and Applications for Political Science

    Marcus Kronfeldt (Speaker)

    01.02.201513.02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch