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

  21. Boston University

    Esther Marie Seha (Visiting researcher)

    01.05.201531.07.2015

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  22. Book Presentation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  23. Book Presentation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  24. Book Presentation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    03.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  25. Book Presenation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  26. Book Launch: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    02.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  27. Biennial International Conference of the European Union Studies Association - EUSA 2016

    Vera van Hüllen (Coauthor) & Tanja A. Börzel (Speaker)

    09.05.201311.05.2100

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  28. Bi-annual General Assembly of the World Values Survey Association - WVS 2014

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    03.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  29. Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences – Linking Theory and Empirical Research

    Esther Marie Seha (Participant)

    17.07.201129.07.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  30. Berlin Summer School "Democracy and Democratization" 2012

    Ina Kubbe (Participant)

    15.07.201227.07.2012

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

  31. Berlin Summer School

    Lea-Katharina Rzadtki (Participant)

    16.07.201727.07.2017

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

  32. BarCamp Menschenrechte – stiftung.gemeinsam.stärken

    Tonio Oeftering (Organiser)

    13.05.2017

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

  33. Autoren-Workshop

    Christian Welzel (Organiser)

    17.05.201619.05.2016

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

  34. Autocratic Adaptation, Autocratic Legacies and Fundamentalist Islam in Niger

    Sebastian Elischer (Lecturer)

    03.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  35. Außerschulische politische Jugendbildung und politische Erwachsenenbildung - eine Bestandsaufnahme

    Tonio Oeftering (Organiser)

    17.11.201618.11.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  36. Ausländerbehörden zwischen “Willkommen“ und Rückkehr

    Sybille Münch (Speaker)

    18.09.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  37. Auftaktveranstaltung des Projekts Jugend und Demokratie 2012

    Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)

    2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  38. Auftaktveranstaltung der Reihe „Förder-institutionen im Gespräch“: Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

    Thomas Saretzki (Participant)

    30.06.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  39. “Assessing Representative Democracy, the Democratic Deficit and Institutional Reform

    Florian Grotz (Lecturer)

    25.11.201126.11.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  40. Assessing knowledge cumulation in earth system governance research: An analysis of 100 published ESG papers

    Michael Rose (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Speaker)

    21.10.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  41. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung e.V. (AFK) (External organisation)

    Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Member)

    2014 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  42. 'A Professional Elite? Pre-Parliamentary Experience and Leadership Roles in the European Parliament'

    Michelangelo Vercesi (presenter)

    11.05.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  43. Annual Meeting WPSA Conference

    Stefan Kruse (Speaker)

    18.04.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  44. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association's - APSA 2012

    Amy Alexander (Speaker)

    30.08.201202.09.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  45. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association - APSA 2013

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    29.08.201301.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  46. Annual Meeting, German Political Science Association - Comparative Politics Section 2013

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    09.10.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  47. Annual Meeting, German Political Science Association - Comparative Politics Section 2013

    Christian Welzel (Participant)

    09.10.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  48. Annual IPSA-NUS Summer School for Social Science Research Methods

    Ina Kubbe (Speaker)

    15.07.201327.07.2013

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

  49. Annual International Conference of the Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe" - KFG 2013

    Vera van Hüllen (presenter)

    12.12.201314.12.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  50. Annual Convention of the International Studies Association - ISA 2016

    Vera van Hüllen (presenter)

    17.03.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch