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
“Assessing Representative Democracy, the Democratic Deficit and Institutional Reform
Florian Grotz (Lecturer)
25.11.2011 → 26.11.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Auftaktveranstaltung der Reihe „Förder-institutionen im Gespräch“: Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Thomas Saretzki (Participant)
30.06.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Auftaktveranstaltung des Projekts Jugend und Demokratie 2012
Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)
2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Ausländerbehörden zwischen “Willkommen“ und Rückkehr
Sybille Münch (Speaker)
18.09.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Außerschulische politische Jugendbildung und politische Erwachsenenbildung - eine Bestandsaufnahme
Tonio Oeftering (Organiser)
17.11.2016 → 18.11.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Autocratic Adaptation, Autocratic Legacies and Fundamentalist Islam in Niger
Sebastian Elischer (Lecturer)
03.04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Autoren-Workshop
Christian Welzel (Organiser)
17.05.2016 → 19.05.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
BarCamp Menschenrechte – stiftung.gemeinsam.stärken
Tonio Oeftering (Organiser)
13.05.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Berlin Summer School
Lea-Katharina Rzadtki (Participant)
16.07.2017 → 27.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Berlin Summer School "Democracy and Democratization" 2012
Ina Kubbe (Participant)
15.07.2012 → 27.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences – Linking Theory and Empirical Research
Esther Marie Seha (Participant)
17.07.2011 → 29.07.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Bi-annual General Assembly of the World Values Survey Association - WVS 2014
Christian Welzel (presenter)
03.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Biennial International Conference of the European Union Studies Association - EUSA 2016
Vera van Hüllen (Coauthor) & Tanja A. Börzel (Speaker)
09.05.2013 → 11.05.2100Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
Boston University
Esther Marie Seha (Visiting researcher)
01.05.2015 → 31.07.2015Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Briefing Note: "Understanding Societal Development and Moral Progress: The Contribution of the World Values Surveys"
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Bringing the region back in? German Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) between regional engagement and isolated business
Miriam Hufnagl (Speaker) & Nicole Schulze (Speaker)
25.08.2011 → 27.08.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Building trust in early childhood education and care. The role of local civil society
Sybille Münch (Speaker) & Anna Siede (Speaker)
11.10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Publisher)
Andreas Lutter (Editor)
08.2012Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Cambridge University Press (Publisher)
Christian Welzel (Editor)
2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of unfinished anthology/collection › 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
CfP Sektionstagung 2017
Thomas Saretzki (Participant)
21.09.2017 → 22.09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
Comparative Politics (Journal)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Editor)
01.04.2013 → 2015Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Conference Analyzing Panel and Spatial Data - 2015
Stefan Kruse (Participant)
29.09.2015 → 30.09.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Conference: New trends of political representation in the EU: still democratic? 2012
Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)
05.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference on "The European Electoral Heritage: Ten Years of the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters" 2012
Florian Grotz (Speaker)
02.07.2012 → 03.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Constructor University Bremen (External organisation)
Christian Welzel (Coordinator)
2004 → 2006Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Education
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
Convegno Nazionale. Il Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri dallo Stato liberale allo Stato democratico fino all'Unione europea - 2019
Michelangelo Vercesi (Speaker)
20.02.2019 → 22.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Corruption and Trust: A model design
Ina Kubbe (Speaker)
29.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
Data Analysis: MAXQDA
Lena Wach (Participant)
25.09.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Declining Trust in Institutions: Why We Should Not Worry
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Democratic Anger and Anxiety
Marion Reiser (Participant)
10.11.2016 → 11.11.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Demokratieexport? Dilemmata externer Demokratieförderung
Vera van Hüllen (Lecturer)
01.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Demokratie in der Krise? Alternative Autoritarismus? Vergleiche – Gefahren – Perspektiven
Vera van Hüllen (Speaker)
14.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
"Der aktuelle Stand der Didaktik im Fach Politik"
Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)
30.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Der „fachdidaktische Code“ der Lebenswelt- und/oder (?) Situationsorientierung in der fachdidaktischen Diskussion der sozialwissenschaftlichen Unterrichtsfächer sowie des Lernfeldkonzepts
Tonio Oeftering (Organiser)
07.03.2016 → 08.03.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Der Staat in der Nachhaltigkeitstransformation
Thomas Saretzki (Organiser) & Michael Rose (Moderator)
01.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
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
Detached and out of touch? Political Elites between public criticism and logic of professionalization.
Marion Reiser (Speaker)
07.09.2016 → 10.09.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Deutsche Vereinigung für Parlamentsfragen e.V. (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2007 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
DFG-Forschungsinitiative Heterogenität der Universitäten Hamburg und Lüneburg 2011 (Event)
Andreas Lutter (Member)
06.2011Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Die Entwicklung der Regierungssysteme im post-sozialistischen Europa
Esther Seha (Speaker)
01.06.2012 → 03.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Direkte Demokratie in der Kritik: Emanzipatorische Perspektiven in Zeiten des Rechtspopulismus
Katja Heeß (Speaker)
04.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Disaggregating Democracy and the Legitimization of Functionally Fragmented Governance beyond the State
Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)
03.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Doktorandenkurs: Fallauswahl und komparative Methoden in den Sozialwissenschaften - 2013
Veit Ebermann (Participant)
18.01.2013 → 25.01.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Doktorandinnen- und Doktorandenworkshop der Sektion Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
Ina Kubbe (Organiser)
19.06.2014 → 20.06.2100Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
DVPW Kongress 2024, Panel "The Climate Crisis and Taxation"
Lukas Hakelberg (Organiser)
27.09.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Earth System Governance Taskforce on Knowledge Cumulation (External organisation)
Jens Newig (Office)
2021 → …Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Transfer
ECPR General Conference 2018
Pavel Satra (presenter)
23.08.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
ECPR General Conference 2018, Section "Taxation in the 21st Century"
Lukas Hakelberg (Organiser)
22.08.2018 → 25.08.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ECPR General Conference 2022
Thomas Saretzki (Participant)
22.08.2022 → 26.08.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2018
Xavier Romero (Speaker)
04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops - ECPR 2019
Xavier Romero (Speaker)
2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Universität St. Gallen 2011
Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)
04.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ECPR Joint Sessions, Workshop: ‚Local political leadership in a changing context’ - 2006
Marion Reiser (Speaker)
25.04.2006 → 30.04.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ECPR Joint Sessions, Workshop No. 6: ‚Comparative Perspectives on Local Party Politics’ 2007
Marion Reiser (Speaker)
07.05.2007 → 12.05.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences: Qualitative Interpretive Methods
Lena Wach (Participant)
13.02.2015 → 20.02.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Ehrenamt durch Qualifizierung stärken. Eine empirische Bedarfsanalyse.
Tonio Oeftering (Speaker)
13.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Eingeladener Vortrag zu 'Der politisch-planerische Umgang mit der "Sozialen Mischung"'
Sybille Münch (Speaker)
21.01.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
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
Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Conference - 2019
Xavier Romero (Speaker)
2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Empirical Research Methods on Legitimacy: Repertory Grid as the Interface between „Measuring“ and „Evaluating“
Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann (presenter)
26.08.2015 → 29.08.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
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
Environmental Governance of a Belt and Road Project in Montenegro – National Agency and External Influences
Johanna Coenen (Speaker), Jens Newig (Coauthor) & Patrick Meyfroidt (Coauthor)
07.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Environmental Governance of the Belt and Road Initiative
Johanna Coenen (Speaker), Jens Newig (Coauthor), Edward Challies (Coauthor), Simon Bager (Coauthor) & Patrick Meyfroidt (Coauthor)
05.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Environmental governance research: Interdisciplinary, Policy-oriented - and Cumulative?
Michael Rose (Speaker) & Jens Newig (Coauthor)
25.08.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Erhalt und Zusammenbruch der legislativen Demokratie. Frankreich und Deutschland im Vergleich
Michael Koß (Oral presentation)
14.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Estland, ein wichtiger Partner in der EU: Sicherheitspolitische Aspekte im Rahmen der Ratspräsidentschaft
Vera van Hüllen (Speaker)
28.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Europa-Union, Kreisverband Hamburg-Harburg
Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)
2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
European Communication Research and Education Association (External organisation)
Björn Buß (Member)
2010 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
European Consortium for Political Research - ECPR2003
Marion Reiser (Speaker)
18.09.2003 → 21.09.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
European Consortium for Political Research Summer School - ECPR 2015
Marion Reiser (Organiser)
13.09.2015 → 19.09.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
European Summer School in Local Government Studies 2002
Marion Reiser (Speaker)
17.07.2002 → 26.07.2002Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
European University, Florenz
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)
09.2014 → 12.2014Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
European University, Florenz
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)
01.2019Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
EU-SPRI Early Career Researcher Conference - ECC 2012
Miriam Hufnagl (Speaker)
09.05.2012 → 11.05.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Evidence-based policy-making? Die Bedeutung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse in politischen Prozessen
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
24.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
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)
28.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Exporting (Good) Governance: Regional Organizations and Areas of Limited Statehood - 2013
Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)
15.11.2013 → 16.11.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
"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
Festakt zum 65. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Frank Nullmeier: Übergabe einer Festschrift „Gesellschaft und Politik verstehen“ und Podiumsdiskussion „Politikwissenschaft als politische Wissenschaft“
Thomas Saretzki (Participant)
10.06.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Food and Political Science: A mutually enlightening relationship?
Esther Marie Seha (Oral presentation)
06.08.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Forschungskolloquium der Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen
Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)
2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research