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. 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

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

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    03.02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. Game Theory and Applications for Political Science

    Marcus Kronfeldt (Speaker)

    01.02.201513.02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Politikwissenschaft in den Kulturwissenschaften

    Vera van Hüllen (Panel participant)

    27.01.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  7. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" - 2015

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    15.01.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Politik als Experiment?

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    12.01.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  9. 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

  10. Politikberatung

    Michael Koß (Consultant)

    2015 → …

    Activity: Consultancy

  11. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Marion Reiser (Member)

    2015 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees