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. Corruption and Trust: A model design

    Ina Kubbe (Speaker)

    29.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. Convegno Nazionale. Il Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri dallo Stato liberale allo Stato democratico fino all'Unione europea - 2019

    Michelangelo Vercesi (Speaker)

    20.02.201922.02.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Containing and Accomodating Salafism in the Sahel: Insights and Lessons from Niger

    Sebastian Elischer (Oral presentation)

    12.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. Constructor University Bremen (External organisation)

    Christian Welzel (Coordinator)

    20042006

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesEducation

  5. Conference on "The European Electoral Heritage: Ten Years of the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters" 2012

    Florian Grotz (Speaker)

    02.07.201203.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Conference: New trends of political representation in the EU: still democratic? 2012

    Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)

    05.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Conference Analyzing Panel and Spatial Data - 2015

    Stefan Kruse (Participant)

    29.09.201530.09.2015

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

  8. Comparative Politics (Journal)

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Editor)

    01.04.20132015

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  9. Coming to Terms with the Imperial Presidency? Constitutional Reform in Kenya

    Sebastian Elischer (Oral presentation)

    27.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    10.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  12. Colloquium an der Higher School of Economics

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    15.10.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  13. CfP Sektionstagung 2017

    Thomas Saretzki (Participant)

    21.09.201722.09.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  14. Center for Voting and Parties

    Marion Reiser (Speaker)

    18.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  15. Can China Escape the Emancipatory Impulse of Modernization?

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    12.12.201413.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  16. Cambridge University Press (Publisher)

    Christian Welzel (Editor)

    2013

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of unfinished anthology/collectionResearch

  17. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Publisher)

    Andreas Lutter (Editor)

    08.2012

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  18. Building trust in early childhood education and care. The role of local civil society

    Sybille Münch (Speaker) & Anna Siede (Speaker)

    11.10.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Bringing the region back in? German Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) between regional engagement and isolated business

    Miriam Hufnagl (Speaker) & Nicole Schulze (Speaker)

    25.08.201127.08.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. 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