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
- 2014
Book Launch: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"
Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)
02.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Chair)
02.2014 → 06.2014Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2015
Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)
30.01.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Human Empowerment as an Analytical Framework to Study Social and Political Change
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
28.01.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2014
Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)
16.01.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Wahrheit und Wahrhaftigkeit
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
14.01.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
University of Siena
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)
01.01.2014 → 15.02.2014Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Key Lecture: "Human Empowerment as an Analytical Framework to Study Social and Political Change"
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
01.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
University of California, Irvine
Ina Kubbe (Visiting researcher)
01.2014 → 04.2014Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung e.V. (AFK) (External organisation)
Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Member)
2014 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
German National Academic Foundation (External organisation)
Jens Newig (Office)
2014 → 2022Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2014 → 2019Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2014 → 2019Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Professor Müller-Rommel im internationalem Beirat am European University Institute, Florenz
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Consultant)
2014Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica (Journal)
Michael Koß (Editorial Board)
2014 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
University of California, Irvine
Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)
2014Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
- 2013
Annual International Conference of the Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe" - KFG 2013
Vera van Hüllen (presenter)
12.12.2013 → 14.12.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Containing and Accomodating Salafism in the Sahel: Insights and Lessons from Niger
Sebastian Elischer (Oral presentation)
12.12.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Fortschritt bis zum Kollaps: Wie Zivilisationen an ökologischen Grenzen scheitern können
Marcus Kronfeldt (Lecturer)
10.12.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Was heißt "kritische" Politikwissenschaft?
Thomas Saretzki (Panel participant)
28.11.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Exporting (Good) Governance: Regional Organizations and Areas of Limited Statehood - 2013
Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)
15.11.2013 → 16.11.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
„Is it all about profit? Corruption in European Comparative Perspective”
Ina Kubbe (Lecturer)
10.11.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
University of Birmingham
Marion Reiser (Visiting researcher)
11.2013Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
University of Siena
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)
11.2013 → 12.2013Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Entwicklung der niedersächsichen Strategie zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel
Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)
30.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
MEPs on the Web - different from national MPs or just the same? Socialisation and the new digital media in the European Parliament
Jessica Sabrina Kunert (Oral presentation)
28.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Workshop "External Actors’ Responses to the Arab Spring The EU in Comparative Perspective" - 2013
Vera van Hüllen (presenter)
25.10.2013 → 26.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2015
Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)
24.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Is it all about profit?: Corruption in European Comparative Perspective
Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)
11.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
International Workshop: Contestation of hydraulic fracking in Europe and the USA: policies, publics and democracy - 2013
Thomas Saretzki (Organiser)
10.10.2013 → 12.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Annual Meeting, German Political Science Association - Comparative Politics Section 2013
Christian Welzel (presenter)
09.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Late Summer School, Graduate School of Politics, Münster: Qualitative Analysis of Interview Data - 2013
Lena Wach (Participant)
07.10.2013 → 09.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" - 2013
Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)
10.2013 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Coming to Terms with the Imperial Presidency? Constitutional Reform in Kenya
Sebastian Elischer (Oral presentation)
27.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Herbsttagung der Sektion Politische Theorie und Ideenbeschichte - DVPW 2013
Thomas Saretzki (Moderator)
26.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Summer School der Philosophischen Fakultät der Leibniz-Universität Hannover - 2013
Veit Ebermann (Participant)
26.09.2013 → 27.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Methodenworkshop: Einführung in die Grounded-Theory-Methodologie (GTM) - 2013
Veit Ebermann (Participant)
23.09.2013 → 24.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Integrativ-strategische Politikfelder für den Umgang mit Komplexität?
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
21.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
3-Länder-Tagung Politikwissenschaft - 2013
Veit Ebermann (Participant)
19.09.2013 → 21.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Internationale Konferenz "Macht – Medien – Mitteleuropa: Dimensionen der Macht und mediales Spektakel" - 2013
Björn Buß (Speaker)
19.09.2013 → 20.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Political Communication in times of crisis - 2013
Björn Buß (presenter)
12.09.2013 → 13.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
23rd European Consortium for Political Research Summer School on Political Parties and Democracy - ECPR 2013
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Organiser)
07.09.2013 → 22.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Inklusion und Politische Bildung - Thesen
Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)
07.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
7. General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research - ECPR 2013
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
06.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Strategieentwicklung in der Klimaanpassungspolitik: Niedersachsen und Bayern im Vergleich
Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)
03.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association - APSA 2013
Christian Welzel (presenter)
29.08.2013 → 01.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Regional Organizations and Domestic Change in the 'Arab Spring': Cooperation between Power and Persuasion
Vera van Hüllen (presenter)
29.08.2013 → 01.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
State-Building and the European Union's Fight against Corruption in the Southern Caucasus
Vera van Hüllen (presenter) & Tanja A. Börzel (presenter)
29.08.2013 → 01.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Politische Steuerung von Technisierungsprozessen?
Thomas Saretzki (Lecturer)
13.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Multivariate Statistical Analysis and Comparative Cross-National Surveys Data - 2013
Marcus Kronfeldt (Participant)
28.07.2013 → 11.08.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Speaking with a Single Voice: Internal Cohesiveness and External Effectiveness of the EU in World Politics, Workshop an der TU Dresden - 2013
Vera van Hüllen (presenter)
23.07.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
1st International Summer School on Evolution
Marcus Kronfeldt (Participant)
15.07.2013 → 19.07.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Annual IPSA-NUS Summer School for Social Science Research Methods
Ina Kubbe (Speaker)
15.07.2013 → 27.07.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
8th International Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference - IPA 2013
Thomas Saretzki (Chair)
03.07.2013 → 05.07.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Fracking comes to Germany: Interpreting societal conflicts, the politics of expertise and strategies for conflict resolution in a federal system: with Basil Bornemann
Thomas Saretzki (Oral presentation)
03.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The influence of polycentricity on collaborative environmental management – the case of EU Water Framework Directive implementation in Germany
Jens Newig (Oral presentation)
27.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Small N-Analysis and process tracing - GIGA Workshop 2013
Stefan Kruse (Participant)
03.06.2013 → 04.06.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
21. Tagung Junger Osteuropaexperten - DGO JOE 2013
Björn Buß (Organiser)
31.05.2013 → 02.06.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
6. Doktorandenworkshop des Netzwerks Norddeutscher Demokratieforschung - NND 2013
Thomas Saretzki (Organiser)
31.05.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Entwicklung von Klimaanpassungsstrategien in föderalen Politiksystemen: der Fall Niedersachsen
Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)
17.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Politikwissenschaftliche Strategieanalyse als akteurorientierte Prozessforschung
Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)
16.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
13th Biennial Conference of the European Union Studies Association - EUSA 2013
Jessica Sabrina Kunert (presenter)
09.05.2013 → 11.05.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Biennial International Conference of the European Union Studies Association - EUSA 2016
Vera van Hüllen (Coauthor) & Tanja A. Börzel (Speaker)
09.05.2013 → 11.05.2100Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
23rd European Consortium for Political Research Summer School on Political Parties and Democracy - ECPR 2013
Esther Marie Seha (Organiser) & Ina Kubbe (Organiser)
01.05.2013 → 30.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Workshop on “The Design of International Institutions: Theory Meets Data” - 2013
Vera van Hüllen (presenter)
26.04.2013 → 27.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
What is Human Rights Education? Scientific and didactic perspectives.
Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)
22.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
54th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association - ISA 2013
Vera van Hüllen (Chair)
03.04.2013 → 06.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
State-Building and the European Union’s Fight against Corruption in the Southern Caucasus
Vera van Hüllen (Speaker)
03.04.2013 → 06.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The EU’s Governance Transfer. From External Promotion to Internal Protection?
Vera van Hüllen (Speaker)
03.04.2013 → 06.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Comparative Politics (Journal)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Editor)
01.04.2013 → 2015Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
The Rise of Izala Islam in Niger
Sebastian Elischer (Oral presentation)
25.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
3rd European Conference on Politics and Gender - ECPG 2013
Henrike Knappe (Speaker)
23.03.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Frühjahrstagung der Sektion Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft - DVPW PTI 2013
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
21.03.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Analysis of Climate Adaptation Strategy Development: Strategy-Making in the German Länder - The Cases of Lower Saxony and Bavaria
Veit Ebermann (presenter)
18.03.2013 → 20.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
17th Workshop: Electoral Quotas and Political Representation: Comparative Perspectives - ECPR 2013
Marion Reiser (Speaker)
11.03.2013 → 16.03.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Strategie-Workshops „Strategische Mehrheit der Union und Probleme des Machtwechselsmit" - 2013
Ralf Tils (Organiser)
21.02.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Party Government and Policy Performance in Central and Eastern European Parliamentary Democracies (1990-2010)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Lecturer)
19.02.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Séminaire evoREG: Innovation, connectivité et évolution : quelles perspectives et politiques pour le Rhin Supérieur? - evoREG 2013
Miriam Hufnagl (Speaker)
23.01.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Doktorandenkurs: Fallauswahl und komparative Methoden in den Sozialwissenschaften - 2013
Veit Ebermann (Participant)
18.01.2013 → 25.01.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
3rd International Conference on Democracy as Idea and Practice
Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)
10.01.2013 → 11.01.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Cambridge University Press (Publisher)
Christian Welzel (Editor)
2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of unfinished anthology/collection › Research
Journal of European Public Policy (Journal)
Dawid Friedrich (Editor) & Sandra Kröger (Editorial Board)
2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of unfinished anthology/collection › Research
National Research University - Higher School of Economics
Christian Welzel (Visiting lecturer)
2013Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
National Research University - Higher School of Economics
Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)
2013Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Vera van Hüllen (Editor)
2013 → 2015Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of unfinished anthology/collection › Research
University of California, Irvine
Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)
2013Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
- 2012
Wer oder was macht mich zur Persönlichkeit?
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
27.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
4th Department for Business and Politics Paper Seminar 2012
Miriam Hufnagl (Speaker)
22.11.2012 → 23.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
6. Workshop des Netzwerks Sozialwissenschaftliche Klimaanpassungsforschung 2012
Veit Ebermann (Participant)
22.11.2012 → 23.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Entwicklung von Klimaanpassungsstrategien auf Länderebene: ein Fallstudienvergleich
Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)
21.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Workshop Relevanz regionaler Aktivitäten für Hochschulen und das Wissenschaftssystem 2012
Miriam Hufnagl (Speaker)
20.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Workshop "Expanding the TA landscape in Europe" - PACITA 2012
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
15.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Wirtschaftsfaktor Hochschule: Endbericht zur Metastudie
Miriam Hufnagl (Reviewer), Torben Schubert (Reviewer), Elisabeth Baier (Reviewer), Niclas Meyer (Reviewer), Esther Schricke (Reviewer) & Thomas Stahlecker (Reviewer)
07.11.2012Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
NNA-Forum "Klimaschutz in Niedersachsen (II)" 2012
Veit Ebermann (Participant)
18.10.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Teilnahme Sitzung DFG-Fachkollegium Politikwissenschaft
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Reviewer)
18.10.2012Activity: Other expert activities › Peer review of project proposals › Research
London School of Economics and Political Science
Jessica Sabrina Kunert (Visiting researcher)
01.10.2012 → 31.03.2013Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Workshop: Representative Democracy in the 21st Century 2012
Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)
10.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Politikfelder als Strategie? Genese, Grenze und Dynamik der Klima- und Nachhaltigkeitspolitik
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker) & Ralf Tils (Speaker)
26.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
25. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der DVPW 2012
Ina Kubbe (Moderator)
24.09.2012 → 28.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Repräsentation und innerparteiliche Kandidatenaufstellung. Repräsentationsvorstellungen und Selektionskriterien bei der Aufstellung der Direktkandidaten
Marion Reiser (Speaker)
24.09.2012 → 28.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research