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
- Academic councils, panels and committees
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