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. Food and Political Science: A mutually enlightening relationship?

    Esther Marie Seha (Oral presentation)

    06.08.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  2. "Fees must fall" - South African Student Protests in the Context of (informal) Citizenship Education."

    Tonio Oeftering (Speaker)

    06.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  3. Exporting (Good) Governance: Regional Organizations and Areas of Limited Statehood - 2013

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    15.11.201316.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Explaining the performance of participatory and collaborative governance in addressing long-term environmental policy issues

    Jens Newig (Speaker), Michael Rose (Coauthor) & Nicolas Wilhelm Jager (Coauthor)

    28.06.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Experiments in Social Sciences: Method School

    Ina Kubbe (Lecturer)

    10.04.201511.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  6. Experimentelle Politik?

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    21.02.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. Evidence-based policy-making? Die Bedeutung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse in politischen Prozessen

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    24.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  8. EU-SPRI Early Career Researcher Conference - ECC 2012

    Miriam Hufnagl (Speaker)

    09.05.201211.05.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. European University, Florenz

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)

    09.201412.2014

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  10. European University, Florenz

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)

    01.2019

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  11. European Summer School in Local Government Studies 2002

    Marion Reiser (Speaker)

    17.07.200226.07.2002

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  12. European Consortium for Political Research Summer School - ECPR 2015

    Marion Reiser (Organiser)

    13.09.201519.09.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  13. European Consortium for Political Research - ECPR2003

    Marion Reiser (Speaker)

    18.09.200321.09.2003

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  14. European Communication Research and Education Association (External organisation)

    Björn Buß (Member)

    2010 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  15. Europa-Union, Kreisverband Hamburg-Harburg

    Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)

    2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  16. Estland, ein wichtiger Partner in der EU: Sicherheitspolitische Aspekte im Rahmen der Ratspräsidentschaft

    Vera van Hüllen (Speaker)

    28.11.2017

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

  17. Erhalt und Zusammenbruch der legislativen Demokratie. Frankreich und Deutschland im Vergleich

    Michael Koß (Oral presentation)

    14.11.2019

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

  18. Environmental governance research: Interdisciplinary, Policy-oriented - and Cumulative?

    Michael Rose (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Coauthor)

    25.08.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Environmental Governance of the Belt and Road Initiative

    Johanna Coenen (Speaker), Jens Newig (Coauthor), Edward Challies (Coauthor), Simon Bager (Coauthor) & Patrick Meyfroidt (Coauthor)

    05.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch