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
- Visiting an external academic institution
Latin American Faculty for Social Sciences (FLACSO)
Tobias Lenz (Visiting researcher)
06.2009 → 07.2009Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › 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
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)
2012Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
National Research University - Higher School of Economics
Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)
2011Activity: 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
Oslo University
Marion Reiser (Visiting researcher)
07.2015 → 10.2015Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Tel Aviv University
Ina Kubbe (Visiting researcher)
26.02.2015 → 06.04.2015Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
The Australian National University
Sabine Stumpf (Visiting researcher)
21.03.2012 → 10.05.2012Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
University of Birmingham
Marion Reiser (Visiting researcher)
11.2013Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
University of California, Irvine
Ina Kubbe (Visiting researcher)
01.2014 → 04.2014Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
University of California, Irvine
Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)
2014Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
University of California, Irvine
Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)
2013Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
University of California, Irvine
Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)
2012Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
University of California, Irvine
Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)
2011Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
University of California, Irvine
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)
2012 → 2013Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
University of Copenhagen
Marion Reiser (Visiting researcher)
02.2012 → 07.2012Activity: 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
University of Siena
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)
01.01.2014 → 15.02.2014Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
University of Strathclyde
Xavier Romero (Visiting researcher)
2019Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Utrecht University
Jens Newig (Visiting researcher)
2021 → …Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Zentrum für Unabhängige Sozialforschung
Ina Kubbe (Visiting researcher)
04.2006 → 07.2006Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
- Leuphana academic councils and committees
German National Academic Foundation (External organisation)
Jens Newig (Office)
2014 → 2022Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Institute of Political Sciences (Organisational unit)
Marion Reiser (Chair)
18.10.2016 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Institute of Political Sciences (Organisational unit)
Marion Reiser (Office)
10.2014 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Institute of Sustainability Governance (Organisational unit)
Jens Newig (Chair)
2019 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Member)
2006 → 04.2012Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Member)
04.2014 → 03.2016Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Jan Günter Berz (Member)
13.06.2016 → 31.08.2018Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Chair)
12.2011 → 05.2012Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Chair)
02.2014 → 06.2014Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Marion Reiser (Member)
10.2014 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Marion Reiser (Member)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Sustainability (Organisational unit)
Jens Newig (Office)
2022 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
- Learned societies and special interest organisations
Deutsche Vereinigung für Parlamentsfragen e.V. (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2007 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
European Communication Research and Education Association (External organisation)
Björn Buß (Member)
2010 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
German Political Science Association e.V. (External organisation)
Thomas Saretzki (Member)
2017 → 2022Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
German Political Science Association e.V. (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2007 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Society for Civic Education Didactics and Civic Youth and Adult Education e.V. (External organisation)
Tonio Oeftering (Member)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Education
Society for Civic Education Didactics and Civic Youth and Adult Education e.V. (External organisation)
Tonio Oeftering (Member)
2012 → 2016Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Education
The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) (External organisation)
Björn Buß (Member)
2010 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Transparency International Deutschland e.V. (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2003 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
- Bodies of public institutions
Earth System Governance Taskforce on Knowledge Cumulation (External organisation)
Jens Newig (Office)
2021 → …Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Transfer
German Research Foundation (DFG) (External organisation)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Member)
2012 → 2015Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Research
- Academic networks or partnerships
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung e.V. (AFK) (External organisation)
Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Member)
2014 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
DFG-Forschungsinitiative Heterogenität der Universitäten Hamburg und Lüneburg 2011 (Event)
Andreas Lutter (Member)
06.2011Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) (External organisation)
Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Member)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
University of Bremen (External organisation)
Andreas Lutter (Member)
06.2011Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Victoria University of Wellington (External organisation)
Marion Reiser (Coordinator)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
- Academic councils, panels and committees
American Political Science Association (APSA) (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2010 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Constructor University Bremen (External organisation)
Christian Welzel (Coordinator)
2004 → 2006Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Education
German Political Science Association e.V. (External organisation)
Vera van Hüllen (Office)
24.09.2015 → 2018Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
German Political Science Association e.V. (External organisation)
Vera van Hüllen (Office)
2018 → 2021Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
German Political Science Association e.V. (External organisation)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Member)
01.11.2016 → 30.10.2018Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
International Political Science Association (External organisation)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Member)
01.09.2018 → 2020Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
IPSA Research Committee on Political Sociology (External organisation)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Executive member)
11.2014Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2017 → 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
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2014 → 2019Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2018Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Verein für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung e.V. (External organisation)
Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Coordinator)
11.09.2015 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
- Consultancy
Sachverständiger im Finanzausschuss des Deutschen Bundestages zum ATAD-Umsetzungsgesetz
Lukas Hakelberg (Consultant)
03.05.2021Activity: Consultancy
- Guest lectures
“Assessing Representative Democracy, the Democratic Deficit and Institutional Reform
Florian Grotz (Lecturer)
25.11.2011 → 26.11.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Autocratic Adaptation, Autocratic Legacies and Fundamentalist Islam in Niger
Sebastian Elischer (Lecturer)
03.04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Book Launch: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"
Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)
02.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Book Presenation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"
Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)
04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Book Presentation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"
Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)
04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Book Presentation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"
Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)
04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Book Presentation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"
Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)
03.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Can China Escape the Emancipatory Impulse of Modernization?
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
12.12.2014 → 13.12.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Center for Voting and Parties
Marion Reiser (Speaker)
18.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Colloquium an der Higher School of Economics
Christian Welzel (Lecturer)
15.10.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Colloquium Presentation at the Political Science Department, Georg-August-University, Goettingen
Christian Welzel (presenter)
11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Colloquium Presentation: "How Civilization Turned into Human Empowerment"
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
10.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
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
“Corruption and Trust: A Model Design”
Ina Kubbe (Lecturer)
26.01.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Corruption in Comparative Perspective
Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)
02.12.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Declining Trust in Institutions: Why We Should Not Worry
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Demokratieexport? Dilemmata externer Demokratieförderung
Vera van Hüllen (Lecturer)
01.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
"Der aktuelle Stand der Didaktik im Fach Politik"
Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)
30.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Designed to fail?: Regional human rights institutions in the Middle East and North Africa and the 'Arab Spring'
Vera van Hüllen (Oral presentation)
25.11.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Direkte Demokratie in der Kritik: Emanzipatorische Perspektiven in Zeiten des Rechtspopulismus
Katja Heeß (Speaker)
04.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Ehrenamt durch Qualifizierung stärken. Eine empirische Bedarfsanalyse.
Tonio Oeftering (Speaker)
13.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Einmal AstEI, immer AstEI
Vera van Hüllen (Panel participant)
03.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Einwanderungsland Europa - Was kann politische Bildung?
Tonio Oeftering (Panel participant)
23.02.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Entwicklung der niedersächsichen Strategie zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel
Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)
30.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Entwicklung von Klimaanpassungsstrategien auf Länderebene: ein Fallstudienvergleich
Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)
21.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Entwicklung von Klimaanpassungsstrategien in föderalen Politiksystemen: der Fall Niedersachsen
Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)
17.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Europa-Union, Kreisverband Hamburg-Harburg
Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)
2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Experimentelle Politik?
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
21.02.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Experiments in Social Sciences: Method School
Ina Kubbe (Lecturer)
10.04.2015 → 11.04.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
"Fees must fall" - South African Student Protests in the Context of (informal) Citizenship Education."
Tonio Oeftering (Speaker)
06.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Food and Political Science: A mutually enlightening relationship?
Esther Marie Seha (Oral presentation)
06.08.2015Activity: 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
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
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
16.12.2014 → 17.12.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research